City storm drain floods homes on Nardo

NBC 7:

At a time when staying home is the safest place to be, several Encinitas families are stuck finding a new place to live.

On Friday afternoon, a storm drain on Nardo Road and Santa Fe Drive overflowed, sending hundreds of gallons of water pouring into people's homes.

That doesn't look like just hundreds of gallons. News video at the link.

A commenter at Encinitas Votes:

I’m so disheartened by the way the city has treated its own citizens. So many people in our neighborhood don’t have the financial ability to move out and restore their homes. Instead, people are having to live in wet, contaminated homes that will soon turn to mold. A storm drain pumping water with enough force and volume to create a river large enough to flood 20 homes in 20 minutes is not an act of God, that is an act of poor planning. Just up the street, 13 multi-million dollar homes went in on what used to be 5 acres of farmland. The land that used to absorb a significant amount of rainwater was paved over, creating more pressure on the drainage system. While the city receives all the benefits from the tax revenue of these homes, we are all paying the cost of poor planning and the lack of infrastructure updates to support these developments.