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Gabrielle Canon in Pajaro, California

‘We all want to be home’: California town faces slow recovery after historic flood

Miguel Rodriguez, 30, clears mud from his parent's home in Pajaro, California, on 28 March 2023.
Miguel Rodriguez, 30, clears mud from his parent's home in Pajaro, California, on 28 March. Photograph: Brontë Wittpenn/AP

One month after rushing waters engulfed Pajaro, residents of the central California town are grappling with the next chapter in the unfolding disaster: cleanup has been arduous and slow.

On 11 March, the small, low-income Latino community set inland along the central coast bore the brunt of a punishing winter storm when torrential rains engorged its namesake river and caused aging levees to fail.

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