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Victims displaced by the Jan. 22 floods gathered Wednesday in Barrio Logan to share heart-wrenching stories of survival and neighbors rescuing neighbors. They also expressed anger at the city for falling behind on stormwater infrastructure maintenance.
“They didn’t do their job, I had to do their job,” said Jesse Preciado, a Shelltown resident who dove into the flood waters to unclog a street drain. “All my neighbors did lose their houses for this reason, just because the city didn’t want to come check the drains.”
We reported that more than 1,000 families were displaced by the floods. Both government and nonprofit organizations have put people up in motels, but that money is quickly running out.
The Jackie Robinson YMCA placed Ana Ramirez and her two daughters in a hotel. The organization gave the family a 14-day hotel voucher, she said. Ramirez is just one of many families affected by the floods. She accepted assistance last week, but she says she doesn’t know what to do next.
“We are confused, we are angry,” Ramirez said.
She echoed many in attendance who questioned why the city didn’t do more to protect them. One woman blamed the flood for her mother-in-law’s death. She said her mother-in-law begged for help, but by the time the family made it inside the house, she was dead.
The residents and community activists marched around Barrio Logan to demand accountability from San Diego’s elected officials for neglecting the storm canals.
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Don’t let government staff members off the hook for their failures to do maintenance. Your tax dollars pay a pretty penny in not only salaries but very lucrative benefits packages that these employees will never find in the private sector for this type of work. Too often, during the 200+ dry sunny workdays of the year, worktime is spent goofing around the maintenance office or sitting in a truck playing videogames on a phone. When you see a worktruck sitting and no action, take a cellphone photo and send it as a Get-It-Done report asking “Why is this crew doing nothing?”….or better yet, get the email address of your jurisdiction’s Public Works head and use it liberally. They work for YOU, and if they don’t like that they can go back to some landscaper’s minimum wage lawnmowing pool.
After I posted the comment above some people asked me, “What constitues a generous pay and benefits package to you?” TransparentCalifornia shows the packages for these workers in National City at $90,000-110,000. Even our graffitti cleanup guy received $100,000. Those are 2021 numbers; there have been raises since then.
Thank you Joan for your comments. I am very angry about the complete negligence of the city workers who failed to do their jobs. The city needs to provide housing ASAP for all the folks whose homes were damaged.
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