Residents lose home in Ventura County flooding

(11 Jan 2023)
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4414376
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ventura County, California - 10 January 2023
HEADLINE: Residents lose home in Ventura County flooding
1. Ventura River flooding
2. Trailer damaged by flood waters.
3. Foster Park sign with mud flow
4. Ventura River damaged from flood waters
++SOUNDBITE PARTIALLY COVERED++
SOUNDBITE (English) Selena Flores, park resident:
"And to watch the river rise from the trailer, was watching it go up and up minute by minute. And then when I looked to see my exit route was basically in four feet of water. That's when I made the final decision. I need to get out."
5. Ventura River flooding
++SOUNDBITE PARTIALLY COVERED++
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Selena Flores, park resident:
"Throughout the night it did more damage than I can say. Debris began to take the fence of our enclosure down and just bring in mud, trees and everything and destroyed it. I mean we lost everything. We lost our home and all of our belongings that we've had."
7. Various trees and mud
8. Selena Flores and Jena Flores getting belongings from their trailer
9. Trash can and fence posts stuck in bicycle rack in park
10. VOICEOVER (English) Jena Flores, park resident:
"I mean, I don't I've never seen anything like this in all my 41 years of living in this city so."
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Selena Flores, park resident:
"Yeah. Nothing. Nothing like this. Undescribable. The amount of water that dropped in one hour."
12. Ventura river flooding
13. Panning shot of damaged trailer and park
ANNOTATION: Millions of people in California were still under flood warnings and thousands have been ordered to evacuate their homes.
STORYLINE:
Two Ventura County residents lost their home when flood waters swept through their trailer park.
"I just was watching it go up and up minute by minute," said Selena Flores. "And then when I looked to see my exit route was basically in four feet of water. That was the that's when I made the final decision. I need to get out."
"We lost our home and all of our belongings that we've had," Flores said.
Sinkholes swallowed cars and raging torrents swamped towns and swept away a small boy as California was wracked by more wild winter.
Meanwhile, the next system in a powerful string of storms loomed on the horizon.
Millions of people were still under flood warnings, and more than 200,000 homes and businesses were without power because of heavy rains, hail and landslides.
Thousands have been ordered to evacuate their homes.
State officials say at least 15 people have died from storms that began late last month.
AP video shot by Ty O'Neil
===========================================================
Clients are reminded:
(i) to check the terms of their licence agreements for use of content outside news programming and that further advice and assistance can be obtained from the AP Archive on: Tel [phone] Email: [e-mail]
(ii) they should check with the applicable collecting society in their Territory regarding the clearance of any sound recording or performance included within the AP Television News service
(iii) they have editorial responsibility for the use of all and any content included within the AP Television News service and for libel, privacy, compliance and third party rights applicable to their Territory.
Find out more about AP Archive: www.aparchive.c...
Twitter: / ap_archive
Facebook: / aparchives ​​
Instagram: / apnews
You can license this story through AP Archive: www.aparchive.c...