When it rains, it pours in the Brookside neighborhood in Kansas City, Missouri.
“It's kind of like waiting for Armageddon to come,” Brookside resident Barb Truta said.
“Anytime when we get this kind of forecast, it's kind of like the winter time when you know there's going to be a bad snow storm. Now we're going to have all of that same stuff with rain, where we're worried about it, we're talking about it,” Brookside resident Lea Murphy said.
It’s a problem Murphy said she’s had to deal with for years, with her basement taking the biggest hit.
Just last week, she had 10 inches of standing water.
“We're a sitting duck. We've done everything that we know how to do,” Murphy said.
She said the flooding isn't the worst part, but what comes after.
“The house has flooded so many times, we know it can withstand the water,” Murphy said. “It's losing days of work. It's ‘are we molding?’ It's the electricity to dry the basement out, it's running clean water down into the basement to get all the mud out, hoping that the drain can take it.”
Right next door, her neighbors Barb and Mike Truta have done their own preparations to get ready.
“I basically put a brick wall up, hopefully, to keep it from washing away again,” Mike Truta said.
“We have everything in bins downstairs. We have our fans ready to go,” Barb Truta said. “We were in the middle of standing our deck, so we have tarps all over the deck.”
Fourteen years living in their home, they say it gets flooded twice a year.
“The ditch can't hold the water,” Mike Truta said.
“And it becomes a lake,” Barb Truta said. “Then it goes down into the basement. And then it comes up through the drain as well. It just seeps up right through the floors.”
A flash flood watch is in effect for most of the metro area until Sunday at 7 a.m. A flash flood warning was issued for parts of the metro until 2 a.m. Sunday.
Flash Flood Warning including Kansas City MO, Kansas City KS, Independence MO until 2:00 AM CDT pic.twitter.com/r8AWjZ4GtR
— NWS Kansas City (@NWSKansasCity) August 6, 2017
