One March morning in the small Central Valley town of Woodlake, Joshua Diaz was getting out of bed when he noticed that his carpet was bubbling and that his tile floor had grown slick. If we invest our money back into our homes, will our investment be sound?” Madisyn Liles holds 1-year-old Luka as her husband, Keylan, watches two water …
Floodwaters cover part of a sign for a house at a new development, Hillside Estates, in Woodlake, Calif., on Wednesday. Keylan Liles, who has lived in a house on West Cajon Avenue for decades, said he’d “never seen anything like this.” “Then they built that,” he said, pointing to the new development across the street, which he said replaced orchards …
California’s 11th atmospheric river storm of the season barreled through a beleaguered state Tuesday, dropping more rain and snow, sending thousands once again scrambling for higher ground and leaving more than 300,000 without power. More than a dozen locations along major rivers including areas along the Salinas, Sacramento and Merced rivers, were overflowing as the high-impact storm moved south through …
