People living on Ralph Lane still recovering from March floods

MONTEREY COUNTY, Calif. (KION-TV)- Nearly a month after the flooding in Prunedale that left several families displaced. One family is finally back home after several days away.

Every time it rains in Prunedale, it's a brutal reminder for Lucilla Lopez of when her home looked like this.
Lucilla barely had 15 minutes to evacuate with her one-year-old child with floodwater up to her waist.

"We are still afraid because the rain doesn't stop," Lucilla Nestor Lopez who lives in Prunedale. "And what if it suddenly starts raining again and the house is already fixed and the little bit that we saved is going to be thrown away? Well, it's going to spoil even more and we're going to be left with nothing,"

Lucilla is now back home after 20 days of her and her family of five jumping from hotel to hotel.
They also stayed with other family in the area.

Although she is grateful to be back home, she says everything is still far from normal.

"When it rains at night that's where we are most afraid because right now we are asleep on the ground and if the water comes in we won't notice if it is," said Lopez.

The County of Monterey says residents whose homes were tagged will not be charged for permits to rebuild.

But as the rain falls, the help for repairs can't come soon enough. Lucilla is a field worker and says there's no work for her when it rains.

Lucilla says her baby is turning two years old on April 22nd but can't afford to celebrate.

"Now we are back but we have nothing, we don't even have a dining room, we don't have beds, we have nowhere to put our things," said Lopez.

PG&E initially required people to pay to reconnect to gas lines. County officials says those people will be refunded.