SAN DIEGO (KGTV) – As the county officials took over the voucher program for flood victims, frustrations mounted for one family.
It was utter confusion for flood victim Xochitl Delgado when she arrived at a San Ysidro hotel Tuesday afternoon, three weeks after a flood of heartbreak.
Cellphone video showed the scene inside Delgado’s rented home in Logan Heights that day, as chest-high water claimed nearly all the belongings of her family of six, including her 3 children, ages 5, 8 and 17.
The family didn’t have renters insurance.
One of her kids’ schools provided more than two weeks of hotel vouchers at a motel in Mission Valley.
Then, on Monday, with the county taking over the voucher program for flood victims, Delgado says she got a call from the county, informing her that the only option for a month-long hotel stay was in San Ysidro. She had requested a hotel in central San Diego or La Mesa, near her workplace.
“Now she has to figure out how to get the kids to school in time and make it to work on time … It adds more to the stress,” Delgado’s mother, Sandra.