See It: Swift water rescue teams help families, livestock as Northern California swamped by flooding

HUMBOLDT COUNTY, Calif. – Swift water teams were deployed to Humboldt County in Northern California on Sunday as a powerful atmospheric river slammed the region with heavy rain and caused significant flooding.

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Video released by the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office shows deputies on jet skis and boats reaching flooded homes in the Bayside, Freshwater and several other communities. 

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The sheriff's office posted images of goats and sheep that had to be rescued from the front porch of a home, surrounded by floodwaters.

Other images showed deputies wading through chest-high water.

Many state and local roads were still flooded Monday morning. The county released a list of businesses where sandbags were being staged.

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The heavy rain caused many rivers and creeks in the county to overflow their banks. Flooding was reported throughout Northern California over the weekend, where nearly a foot of rain fell in some places.

The powerful atmospheric river will remain over the region through Monday, ahead of a second storm, an area of low pressure off the coast, that is expected to intensify by Tuesday night.

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Northern California remains under a Flood Watch through the end of the workweek.