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Across the Central Coast’s Monterey County, more than 8,500 people were under evacuation orders and warnings, including roughly 1,700 residents — many of them Latino farmworkers — from the unincorporated community of Pajaro.
Across the Central Coast's Monterey County, more than 8,500 people were under evacuation orders after the Pajaro River's levee was breached.
The levee breach occurred as California was hit by its tenth atmospheric river of the winter season.
Crews had gone door to door Friday afternoon to urge residents to leave before the rains came but some stayed and had to be pulled from floodwaters early Saturday.
A Monterey County agricultural community was forced to evacuate after the Pajaro River’s levee was breached by flooding.