Hubris: In many parts of #California, #poverty follows #geography. On the Salinas, the problem is particularly acute. In recent years, a growing #homeless population has congregated not only along the Salinas’s banks but in the riverbed itself.

Driven to the #floodplain by #CivicIndifference and a misplaced belief that the usually dry river posed no threat, the Salinas’s river-bottom dwellers suffered more than anyone else.

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/chronicle-of-a-flood-foretold/