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SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) -- Six months after historic flooding devastated a Southcrest neighborhood, many residents say they’re left without answers and struggling to make ends meet.
Hundreds of residents were displaced, and some remain without homes as the physical and emotional damage from that day continues to take its toll.
FOX 5/KUSI first met Evelyn Acevedo and her family of four in January after her family escaped feet of flooding by climbing on her dad’s truck.
Following the storm, her family stayed at a local hotel funded by a county voucher program, but the program ended in June.
“The only thing we had was just my parents’ room; there were no kitchen appliances or anything like that yet,” Acevedo said. “It’s just so crazy because I don’t feel like this is my house anymore.”
“It was like a freight train coming down the road,” said resident Greg Montoya, who cited the clogged Chollas Creek behind the neighborhood as a key issue. “The city, as you can see, doesn’t do anything about it. The trash is still there, all the shrubs are there.”
Montoya is also in the process of renovating his home.
“A lot of work, we still got to go finish the electrical,” he said. “I consider myself fortunate that at least I have a home to go to. You remember, the majority of these people were renters, and they have nowhere to go.”
He has since filed a class-action lawsuit with hundreds of victims, citin...
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