Several public parks, including the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, were closed to visitors due to the ongoing heavy rain. Videos posted on social media showed a handful of homes and cars under a few feet of water and at least one road washed out in the town of Springville by the rushing river. In Central California, the Tule River overflowed its banks and flooded several homes. Meanwhile, the Folsom Dam in Sacramento County was releasing 30,000 cubic feet of water every second Friday to prevent flooding. The owner, Marlene Ruth, was not inside at the time but told CBS News she had been building her collection since 1972. On Thursday, a security camera captured footage of the roof of Ruth's Dolls and Memories, a Camino doll museum, collapsing completely. The roof of a building directly across from the firehouse had been completely mangled by the snow. "It already is stressing the buildings, and then when you start putting rainwater on top of it, especially heavy rains, that just further compounds the threat," El Dorado County Fire Protection District Chief Tim Cordero told CBS News Friday in Camino, a small town about 50 miles east of Sacramento.
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