A Boulder Creek family is dealing with a second major blow from Mother Nature.
For the past 2 1/2 years, the Phleger family had been working hard to rebuild after the 2020 CZU fire destroyed it.
“Probably about two months ago. Things started to change. My family started to act like my family again, because we knew we were going to be moving home,” Jason Phleger said.
But just one day before the county was set to do the final inspection, so the family could finally return, the storm dealt a devastating blow.
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“We were going to get our lives back. Start to be able to move home as a family. And when we found out a tree had fallen onto the home, it’s just devastating,” Shannon Phleger said.
Now it’s back to square one for the Phlegers, who are both nurses and have been on the frontline during the pandemic, must rebuild their home yet again
“A complication that we hadn’t foreseen shoved itself into our lives and kept us from moving back into our house,” Jason Phleger said.
“We’ve just been been waiting to get back here, to have our sanctuary back,” Shannon Phleger told NBC Bay Area Thursday.
Friends and family have set up a GoFundMe to help.
Despite the challenges, the family said they still love Mother Nature. They added the redwoods have taught them to be resilient, no matter what’s thrown their way.
“The trees were burned, there were scorched, the ground underneath them were still smoking, and you could see green shoots sprouting out of the redwood. We took inspiration from that,” Jason Phleger said .
The Phleger family said it will likely take months to repair the new damage.
“It’s such a wonderful place to raise our family. We love our land. We just want to be back here. And we can’t wait to get back,” said Shannon Phleger.
