Geraldo Garcia had 10 minutes to pack his belongings, scramble into a car and leave his makeshift shelter near Coyote Creek. The threat of flooding from an unprecedented atmospheric river storm gave him barely enough time to grab his essentials.
“I’m sad. I’m desperate. I really don’t know where to go,” Garcia said, who’s been living by the creek for six months with his partner, Graciela Haio.
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