The mudslide was reported at approximately 12:30 p.m. at the intersection of Westside Road and Rio Vista Road in Forestville, the sheriff's office said in a Facebook post. The house, which was unoccupied, was later spotted downstream, Wood said.

A house was swept into the Russian River by a mudslide in Forestville near the Forest Hills Bridge Tuesday afternoon as an atmospheric river battered Northern California.

California remains in the grip of an unrelenting atmospheric river delivering record-breaking rainfall, heavy mountain snow and destructive winds. Since the weekend, the storm has triggered widespread flooding,