Officials in Santa Cruz County estimate the damage from this winter's storms will cost at minimum $90 million to repair and likely stretch over months and years.
"We have about $90 million in damage cumulatively from late December through March. We are in scramble mode constantly and have been for a number of months now. But this work of repairing storm damage really doesn't end," said county spokesperson Jason Hoppin.
"Your local government is going to be on a treadmill forever," he explained."Unless there's a way to do the repairs quicker. Unless that money comes in faster, we're just going to be working on these things in perpetuity."
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