Since around 2019, the Sandovals have lived in a home that’s been damaged by flooding at Claribel Road and Roselle Avenue. They live at the crossroads of a massive project that will replace Claribel with an extension of highway 108.
From the front yard, Melissa Sandoval and her father, Robert Sandoval, can see the crawler cranes towering across the street.
There had been a drainage pipe under the road on the north side of the intersection in front of their home. But contractors blocked up the pipe in error while widening the street as part of the North County Corridor project…