Neighbors in some California communities threatened by floodwaters are feuding over whose land floodwater will fill, as more rain and snow are on the way and the spring snowmelt threatens to inundate low-lying areas.
that some neighbors are working together, but appealed for outside help. They have also been frustrated by the refusal of some in the area to assist residents as they work to defend their land:
“They wouldn’t allow this water to come into a white town,” [Kayode] Kadara said, standing beside the flood-swollen ditch, where water flowed through the culvert under the road. When residents saw water surging toward the community on Thursday, they said, they used sandbags, rocks and plywood to plug the flow through two culverts along Highway 43 beside the BNSF train tracks.
“We actually did a good job of temporarily solving a problem. But for whatever reason, the railroad unblocked it,” Kadara said.last week, the area in which Allensworth sits is a dry lakebed, where a freshwater lake, Tulare Lake, once existed. This year’s heavy storms mean the lake could return for the first time in decades.farmland, putting crops and thousands of farm jobs at risk. More rain and snow are expected to arrive in the season’s 12 “atmospheric river” on Monday.
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