Port Hueneme--The City Council received a storm recovery update from City Manager James Vega on Tuesday, January 16, who wants to let state representatives and members of Congress see what’s going on in the City.
THE rain was localized to Port Hueneme and parts of Oxnard and wasn’t a County-wide storm at the level that was in Port Hueneme.
The City experienced a torrential rainstorm early on December 21, flooding Port Hueneme substantially with six inches of rain, with three inches of rain falling in one hour.
“We’re finding that a lot of people if they lived in Thousand Oaks, are saying, what rain are you talking about,” he said. “A big part of what we’ve been doing when we’ve been going out to do presentations is trying to make sure everybody understands what we went through in Port Hueneme and what we’re still going through as we try to recover.”
He said County officials told him that much rain hadn’t occurred in over 100 years.
“They said the last comparable storm was 102 years ago,” Vega said. “The level of rain that hit us is classified now as a once in 10,000-year storm.”
He showed a map that…
