Monday Top of the Scroll: Kettleman in crisis: Poor Kings County town becomes intersection of I-5, 41, and zero water
While California’s severe drought has hit nearly every corner of the Golden State, it has delivered a crushing toll to communities that received little bounce back following the last drought that peaked seven years ago. Case-in-point? Kettleman City. Kettleman, perhaps best known to Californians as a Kings County stopover midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles, serves as the junction of Valley residents traversing to the Central Coast via Highway 41 and metropolitan drivers roaring across Interstate 5.
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