Pajaro residents will be able to return home on Friday, but for many there’s a long road of recovery ahead and few resources to help them.
WATSONVILLE — Nearly two weeks after a levee failure forced hundreds of families in the small Monterey County community of Pajaro to leave their homes in the middle of the night, both county officials and residents are demanding answers for why federal assistance promised by the governor has yet to materialize.
“I want you to really promise us now, here and now in front of all of us, that you will help us,” Carrillo demanded. “Where do we have to drag ourselves to and how many times?” But a week after his visit, the state has yet to submit a request for that declaration. And both FEMA and the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services said the damage to hundreds of homes in Pajaro alone would not qualify the state for FEMA assistance.
Houses in Pajaro, Calif., have been inspected and tagged before the residents came return home on Tuesday, March 22, 2023. So far, the only financial assistance available to residents is the $300,000 the state allocated to the Monterey County United Way in COVID-19 farmworker relief funds three years ago. Some of that money can now go to Pajaro evacuees — but only if they are actually farmworkers. And even that money — a single payment of $600 — hasn’t been disbursed.
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