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    Rural California schools, hit hard by flood damage, dread what snowmelt could bring

    In early April, students in Planada, California, finally returned to their classrooms. It had been three months since the early January flood that sent putrid brown water — filled with floating rodents and sewage — crashing into Planada Elementary School, destroying 27 classrooms, ruining thousands of books, and causing more than $12 million in damage. Hundreds of elementary school students ...
    by Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times May 06, 2023 5 minutes
    Adam Gonzales stands where storms caused the Planada Canal and Miles Creek to overflow and flood the town of Planada, California.

    In early April, students in Planada, California, finally returned to their classrooms.

    It had been three months since the early January flood that sent putrid brown water — filled with floating rodents and sewage — crashing into Planada Elementary School, destroying 27 classrooms, ruining thousands of books, and causing more than $12 million in damage.

    Hundreds of elementary school students and staff — many displaced after losing their homes in the deluge — crammed onto the middle school campus across town.

    Classrooms were shared. Space was cramped.

    Families craved normalcy in the impoverished Merced County farm town of 4,000, which was inundated after Miles Creek burst its bank and busted through levees.

    Construction crews worked at Planada Elementary seven days a week, sunup to sundown, said Superintendent

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