San Mateo residents demand changes from city after torrential January rain, flooding
For San Mateo resident Alex Cwirko-Godycki, 2023 got off to anything but a good start. Back on New Year’s Eve when the Bay Area was hit with torrential rains, his entire neighborhood flooded. “Cars were totaled. All of our garages were flooded. And you couldn’t see front lawns. It was basically a river,” Cwirko-Godycki said. Cwirko-Godycki estimates the damages to his property to be around $60,000. And he’s not alone. All around the city, many people faced similar issues. Rich Cranz is one of them…
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