(10 Jan 2023)
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Ventura County, California – 10 January 2023
1. Park living area with flood damaged trailer and fence
2. Selena Flores and Jena Flores getting belongings from their trailer
3. Selena Flores and Jena Flores hauling of personal possessions through a flood damaged park
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Selena Flores, park resident:
"I began to see the water come in the park and I couldn't wait any longer. I made the decision to leave, evacuate on my own. I left the trailer behind. I just got in my car and took off and ended up in about maybe five feet of water trying to get out of the park, just trying to make it to the front gate. I finally got to the front gate and firefighters were waiting for me at the gate already trying to get me out."
5. Foster Park sign with mud flow
6. Foster Park entrance with mud flow
7. Ventura River damaged from flood waters
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Selena Flores, park resident:
"And to watch the river rise like because I could see out my window from the trailer. I just was watching it go up and up minute by minute. And then when I looked to see my exit route was basically in four feet of water. That's when I made the final decision. I need to get out."
9. Trailer damaged by flood waters.
10. Storage shed and trailer with flood debris
11. Storage shed destroyed by flood waters
12. Branches and mud wedged under trailer
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Selena Flores, park resident:
"I had to leave at the last minute and it was really scary because if I had stayed that extra 10 minutes or the extra whatever, because I was going to technically wait until 3 p.m. when she got off work and had I waited that long there would have been no way, I would have been un-rescuable to vehicles. They would have had to come chopper me out."
14. Trash can and fence posts stuck in bicycle rack in park
15. Fabric caught in tree submerged in flood water
16. Ventura River flooding
17. Cooking pan and cups trapped in mud flow
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Jena Flores, park resident:
"I mean, I don't I've never seen anything like this in all my 41 years of living in this city."
(Selena Flores) And I'm 45 and I am. Yeah. Nothing. Nothing like this. Undescribable. The amount of water that dropped in one hour."
19. Ventura river flooding.
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Selena Flores, park resident:
"Throughout the night it did more damage than I can say. Debris began to take the fence of our enclosure down and just bring in mud, trees and everything and destroyed it. I mean we lost everything. We lost our home and all of our belongings that we've had."
21. Golf cart and building with debris from flood
22. Panning shot of damaged trailer and park
Two Ventura County residents they lost their home when flood waters swept through their trailer park.
"I just was watching it go up and up minute by minute," said Selena Flores. "And then when I looked to see my exit route was basically in four feet of water. That was the that's when I made the final decision. I need to get out."
"We lost our home and all of our belongings that we've had," Flores said.
Sinkholes swallowed cars and raging torrents swamped towns and swept away a small boy as California was wracked by more wild winter.
Meanwhile, the next system in a powerful string of storms loomed on the horizon.
Millions of people were still under flood warnings, and more than 200,000 homes and businesses were without power because of heavy rains, hail and landslides.
Thousands have been ordered to evacuate their homes.
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