‘It nonetheless hurts': 1 month later, Mountain View home-owner remembers flooding

It’s been one month because the heavy storm on Jan. 22 that flooded a number of San Diego neighborhoods.

“It nonetheless hurts, sorry, it nonetheless hurts,” Mountain View home-owner Mary Landavazo stated. “I like decorations. I did a lot inside, a lot outdoors reworking, all for it to be gone within the blink of an eye fixed.”

For Landavazo, Jan. 22, feels prefer it occurred yesterday.

“We’re nonetheless residing it. We’re nonetheless going via it. We’re nonetheless having to undergo issues on a regular basis,” she stated.

Landavazo says she’ll always remember having to flee her house from a tiny window on the second ground.

“That little window on the left facet, all the best way on the prime, that’s the place we got here out of. My husband climbed out, so he may assist me. I got here out, got here down this fashion, got here down right here. I needed to step on this with my foot this fashion, after which step on the pillar and from the pillar to a kayak,” she defined.

Within the blink of an eye fixed, the water that compelled her from her house disappeared.

“Like that. It occurred quick,” she stated.

However what didn’t disappear was the destruction it left behind.

“This was the residing space. This was the eating space. This over right here was the laundry room, and this was just like the pantry space,” she stated. “This use to be a brick wall. It’s gone. The water, the present, simply knocked it down.”

The emotional scars additionally did not disappear.

“You’re driving, and it’s raining, and also you’re freaking out since you go by a puddle, and there’s a trauma there. You assume you’re OK, you assume you’re OK, however then it hits you,” she stated.

And when requested if her home will ever be a house once more, she answered with a easy shoulder shrug.

“Is it going to be the identical? We don’t know. There is no such thing as a aid. There is no such thing as a aid. There’s no aid,” she stated.

Landavazo stated her household is among the few that did have flood insurance coverage as a result of her house was inbuilt a flood zone.

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