On February 21 – 22 , 2017 , after one month of heavy rainfall , Coyote Creek flooded parts of San Jose , displacing 14,000 people . Residents complained that the city failed to uphold its duty to protect and warn its citizens . Liccardo and other city officials accepted responsibility for failures in their emergency response , but also put some of the blame on the Santa Clara Valley Water District
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2017 California floods
Sam Liccardo