{"id":5216,"date":"2025-10-15T03:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T03:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/5216\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T03:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T03:01:10","slug":"san-diego-braces-for-rain-recalls-2024-flood-devastation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/5216\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego braces for rain, recalls 2024 flood devastation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO <a href=\"https:\/\/fox5sandiego.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">(FOX 5\/KUSI)<\/a> \u2014 As rain looms over San Diego, Southcrest resident Lucy Rios is reminded of the devastating floods nearly two years ago that destroyed her family\u2019s three homes.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, a creek flood and backed-up storm drains wreaked havoc in the Southcrest neighborhood, forcing rescues and leaving many, including Rios, to rebuild from scratch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe lost everything. Three homes. My sister\u2019s, mine and my mom\u2019s,\u201d Rios recalled.<\/p>\n<p>Ramon Galindo, Senior Public Information Officer with the city of San Diego, stated, \u201cOver the last several weeks the city has been doing a lot of channel cleaning and maintenance ahead of the storm season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rios has been proactive in preparing for the upcoming rain by clearing debris and leaves around her home, a precaution she hopes will prevent another disaster.<\/p>\n<p>She recently completed rebuilding her home, a process that required maxing out credit cards and borrowing money.<\/p>\n<p>The city of San Diego has taken measures to prevent future flooding by clearing flood-prone creeks and drains and monitoring neighborhoods in real-time.<\/p>\n<p>City employees are actively monitoring the channels to ensure there are no issues during the storm.<\/p>\n<p>With the city\u2019s efforts to mitigate flooding risks and residents like Rios taking precautions, the hope is to avoid a repeat of the 2024 disaster.<\/p>\n<p>San Diegans can report downed trees, blocked storm drains and other storm related issues at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiego.gov\/get-it-done\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">sandiego.gov\/get-it-done<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>All facts in this report were gathered by journalists employed by\u00a0KSWB. Artificial intelligence tools were used to reformat from a broadcast script into a news article for our website. This report was edited and fact-checked by KSWB staff before being published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (FOX 5\/KUSI) \u2014 As rain looms over San Diego, Southcrest resident Lucy Rios is reminded of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[586,23,100,74,76,75,19,587],"class_list":{"0":"post-5216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-email-alerts","9":"tag-local-news","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-san-diego","12":"tag-san-diego-headlines","13":"tag-san-diego-news","14":"tag-weather","15":"tag-weather-email-alerts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}