The storm that wracked Nevada County this weekend proved disastrous for some residents. “I woke up in a lake,” said Mill Street resident Sherry O’Leary, who owns ShareBears Childcare preschool, which she operates out of her home. “My 6-year-old daughter woke me up Sunday at 8:30 in the morning saying that toys were floating around our car.” O’Leary’s two vehicles and hot tub were both submerged in water, her garage was flooded, and play structures in the yard floated in the muddy waters of the overflowed Wolf Creek behind her house. “I put on shorts and held my daughter on …












