Debris and water damaged furniture on the side of a road in Planada on Feb. 8, 2023. The town was hit by flooding in January after heavy rainstorms rolled through the area. Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/Catchlight Local
By Nicole Foy, CalMatters, June 15, 2023
[Ed note: This is my hometown]
How do you put a price tag on a disaster?
Researchers at the University of California, Merced attempted to do just that for a small farmworker town in the northern San Joaquin Valley still struggling with the economic fallout of historic flooding.
In January, the unincorporated community of Planada, just east of Merced, was the first of many towns in the Central Valley and elsewhere to flood in what became several months of storms. When the levee on a nearby creek failed, half the town flooded and displaced thousands of people.
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