Freak Rainstorms Flood Northwest Indiana

[rocky2]

Last Wednesday extreme downpours overwhelmed the storm sewers. These shots are from the local newspaper. At this elementary school they had to use rowboats to evacuate the children. It all happened so quick.

 

[rocky2]

Neighborhood

This is just a block away from my house.

 

[rocky2]

Another shot

of the neighborhood.

 

[rocky2]

Something I've never heard of,

Collapsing foundation walls

 

[rocky2]

We were very fortunate

While just a block away basements were submerged, All we got was just about an inch of water. Just enough to make a mess of things.

Rescuing my PC.

 

[rocky2]

Check your policies

While I have water damage coverage, my policy won't cover this because I didn't have the "sewer backup" coverage option.

Cleanup begins. Had to remove the carpet.

 

[rocky2]

More

Cleanup

 

[rocky2]

Even though we used the wet vac

this is the water that was still under the carpet and pad. Didn't smell to nice either.

 

[rocky2]

Flairs

Safe and Sound

 

[sheerlookhomes]

what a terrible thing to happen, glad for your sake it wasn't more than an inch..but that's bad anyway. Your Flair stoves are beautiful by the way.

 

[frigilux]

It's amazing how much trouble even an inch of water can cause. Sorry you are having to deal with it. Glad it wasn't worse. Those Flairs are gorgeous---and you have two of them, even!

 

[appnut]

Rocky, glad y'all are basically ok. That elelmentary school scene is truely frightening. I've heaerd about collapsing foundation walls from a chat friend of mine in Toledo. They had heavy rain this summer for a number of weeks. He had a similar scenario--his block was pretty much ok, two blocks away, houses with collapsing foundation, one washed right off the foundation, and at least one I remember had to be condemmed and torn down.