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SAN DIEGO - County officials say an address search is to blame for a hotel mix-up for some flooding victims.
“I wake up in the morning. It feels like I'm hit by a bus. My body just hurts,” said Xochitl Delgado.More than three weeks ago, floodwaters swamped her rented, Logan Heights home, destroying the belongings of her family of six, including her three children. As county officials took over the hotel voucher process for flood victims, she was sent a text message Monday with the name and address of their new hotel, the Hotel Primera in San Ysidro. When she and her daughter went to look at it Tuesday afternoon, they were told it had been shuttered since June.
Delgado says a county worker told her it was a mix-up and other flood victims had been sent the wrong address. She was then told the booking was for the apartments next door, at the San Ysidro Studios.“There was already police outside. People roaming around the area,” said Delgado.In late January, one man was killed, and two others were injured in a triple shooting near the hotel.Delgado left and checked into a motel in Mission Valley, paying out of pocket.
In a statement, a County spokesperson says, “We regret any stress this mix-up caused the Delgado family. They were not booked at the boarded-up hotel. They were booked into the one next door. The booking was done via telephone, and the hotel was expecting the family. The mix-up came from the address search … The hotels share a driveway. But a subsequent address search showed both properties have different street addresses. The more accurate address was given to others sent to this hotel.
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