March 27, 2017 Mayor Wants City to Sue Scam Artists Preying on Flood Victims By Jennifer Wadsworth Complaints of price-gouging contractors and negligent landlords have prompted the city to consider taking legal action on behalf of residents. Read More 8
March 16, 2017 Op-Ed: San Jose City Council Owes Homeless People Better By Shaunn Cartwright Last week, at the first council meeting to address the flood, neither a single council member nor a city official said the word “homeless.” Read More 24
March 13, 2017 ‘Shelter Crisis’ Declaration Would House SJ Flood Victims into April By Jennifer Wadsworth Three weeks after the flood that devastated several neighborhoods along Coyote Creek, more than 500 households remain displaced. Read More 6
March 10, 2017 San Jose Flood Victims Plead for Help; City Admits Many Mistakes By Jennifer Wadsworth More than 100 people packed the council chambers Thursday to demand answers about the city’s failure to warn them about the flood. Read More 15
March 7, 2017 New Emails Show Water District Limited Flow of Information to City Days before San Jose Flood By Dan Pulcrano Newly released emails show the SCV Water District and city were communicating well ahead of the flood. Then the communication ended. Read More 9
March 3, 2017 Water District Sat on $22 Million for Coyote Creek Flood Control By Josh Koehn The spin cycle on the San Jose flood disaster can be a blur, even for those paying attention. Read More 22
March 3, 2017 SJ Flood Evacuation Orders Failed to Reach Many Recipients By Jennifer Wadsworth According to a Santa Clara County memo, not everyone in the mandatory evacuation flood zones actually got the order to leave. Read More 6
March 1, 2017 San Jose Is Lucky No One Died in Inexcusable Response to Floods By Dan Pulcrano It wasn’t Katrina, but officials failed in every way when it came to notifying San Jose residents of flooding—and it could have been a lot worse. Read More 10
March 1, 2017 Floodgate: How the Water District and City’s Comedy of Errors Became a Local Tragedy By Jennifer Wadsworth and Josh Koehn An inside look at how thousands of homes in San Jose were evacuated due to heavy flooding and a comedy of errors that became a tragedy. Read More 23
February 27, 2017 San Jose to Request Federal, State Aid for Flood Cleanup By Jennifer Wadsworth San Jose says it needs federal aid to recover from the flood that forced thousands of people to flee their homes last week. Read More 13
February 23, 2017 Floods Prevent Nearly 4,000 in San Jose from Returning Home By San Jose Inside Thousands of people in San Jose remain barred from returning to their homes, but city officials are optimistic that conditions will continue to improve. Read More 4
February 23, 2017 Daughter Searches for Father after San Jose Storms, Floods By Jennifer Wadsworth With the floods displacing thousands of San Jose residents, including the homeless, families say some of their loved ones are unaccounted for. Read More 7
February 21, 2017 Flooding in San Jose Prompts Evacuations, Rescue Missions By Jennifer Wadsworth Rising waters have prompted daring rescues and forced evacuations of residents, homeless people and office buildings in the South Bay. Read More 21