Disaster Date:01/08/2023
Merced, CA
Floods
What Happened
January 8, 2023 Severe winter storms, flooding and mudslides caused catastrophic flooding to 80% of Planada, CA homes.
What MDS Is Doing
MDS work will focus on repairs and rebuilding in partnership with Habitat For Humanity to rebuild 182 homes.
Location
Merced is a city in, and the county seat of, Merced County, California, United States, in the San Joaquin Valley. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 86,333, up from 78,958 in 2010. Incorporated on April 1, 1889, Merced is a charter city that operates under a council–manager government.
Stories from the Field
Weekly Reports
Michele WhiteEagle from Idaho spent two days at the beginning of the week with us. On Wednesday, Jim and Shirley Holm came up for an evening and numerous volunteers from the California Unit came on Friday to help move all the equipment to the...
Weekly volunteers joining us this week came from San Francisco and Chicago. Continuing as long-term volunteers were Crew Leaders, Lauren King, Katie and Jonathon Snyder; Head and Assistant Cooks, Kathy and Steve Rhodes as well as Project Director...
Lauren King, Crew Leader from OH; Thomas Mosier, Crew Leader from AZ; Kathy & Steve Rhodes, Head and Assistant Cook from VA; Don & Rachel Horst, Project Director and Office Manager from KS were joined this week by Year Long Volunteers Katie...
