SAN DIEGO — Many of the San Diegans who were hardest-hit by Monday's storm feel like that they are being overlooked.
Residents living on Birch Street in Southcrest were devastated by Monday's flooding. While neighbors are helping neighbors try to get through this, a lot of people here are asking where the city is.
"Everything got flooded all the way to our dining table," said Martin Aguilar, whose home was completely wiped out by Monday's flood, from the televisions to the piano to the bathroom to their recently-purchased RV out back.
"We don't got no place to live," Aguilar told CBS 8. "We just have the clothing on us. We don't got nothing!"
And he said there has been nothing so far from any government officials.
"The city has not shown up," he added, "Nobody has come to talk to us. We right now are in the cold, it is cold... everybody just has the clothing on themselves."
Meanwhile, neighbors along this street are showing up for each other, handing out food and water along the sidewalk, even driving through the neighborhood to deliver pizzas for these families who have nothing else to eat.
"We got to help the community out," said Southcrest resident Luis, who was handing out pizza with a friends. " We got to stick together, you know?"
"It's the people in the community that are helping out, but no one's come out and helped us at all," said Southcrest resident Ashley Pacheco.
Just a short distance away from Birch Street, nearly everything inside Pacheco's parents' home on Beta Street was also destroyed.
"We lost everything," she told CBS 8. "Furniture, sofa, fridge, stove, everything... letters, pictures, all the memories."
Thankfully, their dogs were rescued, as was her elderly grandmother across the street.
"Nobody anticipated the severity of the storm," Mayor Todd Gloria said Tuesday, emphasizing that the city is focused on helping residents and businesses recover from this devastation.
That is help that residents in Southcrest said can't arrive soon enough.
In the meantime, Ashley Pacheco plans to help her neighbors to voluntarily report their damage: something the city is encouraging.
"I think if enough of us report, we can get our voices heard," she said.
Neighbors along Birch Street are asking for the community's help, especially donations like food and clothing. Southcrest resident Karina Escalanate is organizing this local effort. She can be reached at karinakeka@yahoo.com
For more information on reporting your damage to the city, click here.
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