LJI: If the creek don't rise

[beeker121]

East Palo Alto (EPA) has long been the poor relative of Silicon Valley.  Despite sharing a border with Palo Alto and sitting alongside the Bayshore Freeway almost exactly midway between San Francisco and San Jose it had a reputation as undesirable when I moved to CA in 1996.  Their tax base was small, there wasn’t much shopping, and the homes were

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[banana_galaxy]

Good thing you got out of there when you did, sounds like! Also it sounds pretty typical about the rich side of the creek.

[beeker121]

We would have stayed dry, but there would have been no leaving the apartment for about two days if we hadn't gone when we did. Yeah, I wouldn't wish flooding on anyone but there was a little schadenfreude about the whole situation.

[roina_arwen]

Sounds like EPA got lucky! San Francisquito sounds like a cross between San Francisco and mosquito, ha!

[beeker121]

I always thought of the creek name as little San Francisco, but I don't know where it comes from.

[millysdaughter]

During a flood event, functional beats pretty, hands down!

[beeker121]

So much, yes. Last time I went through there the Palo Alto side still mostly had beautiful wood fencing so I guess they're hoping something else got fixed.

[adoptedwriter]

Glad you were safe!

[beeker121]

Thank you - luckily we were fine.

[alycewilson]

I'll take functional any day. Glad that you didn't have any longterm bad effects.

[beeker121]

I agree. We were fine, though a few of our neighbors had to replace cars after they went sailing down the road.