Sacramento Residents Sift Through Soggy Storage Units Weeks After Record Rain: ‘Just Destroyed’

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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — It’s been astir 3 weeks since Sacramento’s record-breaking rainstorm and immoderate are inactive picking up the pieces.

Jill Perlman has spent days sifting done soggy boxes struggling to salvage what she could.

“So everything I ain is conscionable destroyed,” Perlman said of her belongings astatine Life Storage. “You cognize it’s hard due to the fact that each time it’s benignant of been 1 happening I’m blessed to spot and past 2 oregon 3 things I’m truly lamenting.”

Perlman struggled to find the words arsenic she sat among each her belongings that are present wet, moldy and ruined.

Sacramento’s grounds rainfall astatine the extremity of October was capable to flood aggregate units astatine Life Storage erstwhile a sum pump stopped during a powerfulness outage. Firefighters had to rescue radical successful the country by boat.

Perlman has been dealing with the aftermath ever since.

“A agelong hard week of ten-hour days trying to cleanable up and salvage what you can, and it isn’t conscionable me. It’s everybody present who lost,” said Perlman.

Dominick Palumbo poured astir $20,000 into his amusement car that’s present thing but parts. He says what makes matters worse is that nary 1 notified him astir the flood until it was excessively precocious to salvage thing due to the fact that it had sat successful contaminated h2o for days.

“When I pulled it out, everything was conscionable soaked, conscionable tubs of water,” said Palumbo. “They should compensate for what we person left, similar the conveyance and stuff. There’s nary mode they tin regenerate each the memories.”

“I americium truthful frustrated due to the fact that I consciousness similar determination could’ve been thing that could’ve been done if we had been notified,” said Eloise Palumbo.

Perlman says she was notified but she wants to cognize if the metropolis could’ve prevented the sum pump issues successful the archetypal place.

“If that’s the case, past shame connected them for not fixing that,” said Perlman.

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CBS13 reached retired to Life Storage precocious Friday but hadn’t heard backmost arsenic the penning of this story. The metropolis says it’s looking into concerns astir the sum pump.