As flooding season begins, residents in Pacific are fearing a repeat of last year’s devastation when a levee broke in their city, sending feet of water toward homes and forcing hundreds of people to evacuate in December 2025.
“What scares me is, it’s eight years until we have something permanently in place,” Pacific Mayor Vic Kave said. “And all they’ve done down there is put a system in place that failed during this last flood is not giving people in our community confidence.”
The system that failed was a series of HESCO Barriers installed as a temporary measure after several feet of flood water in 2009. A permanent solution has been in the works since. Jacqualine Boles’ saw her home flood last year and is worried a lack of permanent solution is leaving them at risk…