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The Manteca flood of 1997, Hurricane Katrina, SB9, SJAFCA & ignoring the obvious in your own backyard
Perspective
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The Islander Mobile Home Park on Woodward Avenue west of Manteca and south of Lathrop was among the areas flooded in January 1997.
The defining moment of the Flood of 1997 was a husband and wife being interviewed by a KCRA-TV reporter. They were standing in the back yard of their home in Weston Ranch. The cameraman minutes earlier filmed their neighborhood street where driveways were filled with Ryder, U-Haul and other rental trucks.