FLOOD.
REPORTER: YES, I WANTED TO GIVE
YOU AN IDEA OF WHERE I'M AT
RIGHT NOW.
THE INTERSECTION WHERE YOU CAN
TAKE THE GLENWOOD BRIDGE, OPT
FOR HOMESTEAD OR SHOOT OFF TO
CARSON STREET.
TAKE A LOOK BEHIND ME, YOU CAN
SEE CREWS HAVE THIS AREA BLOCKED
OFF.
LOOK AT ALL THAT MUD AND MUCK
LEFT BEHIND.
A TOW TRUCK JUST PULLED A CAR
OUT OF THAT AREA, BECAUSE THE
FLOODWATERS CAME UP SO FAST, THE
CAR GOT STUCK THERE.
THEY DID JUST GET THAT OUT OF
HERE, BUT IF YOU TAKE A LOOK
OVER HERE, RESCUE CREWS HAVE
BEEN ON STAND BY ALL NIGHT,
BROUGHT IN BOATS JUST IN CASE
ANYBODY NEEDED TO BE RESCUED,
FIRST RESPONDERS AS WELL.
SO A PRETTY SERIOUS SITUATION
WHEN THE FLOODWATERS WERE VERY,
VERY HIGH IN IN AREA.
FLOODWATERS HAVE RECEDED, BUT
WE'VE GOT A LOT OF MUD LEFT
BEHIND.
ONE DRIVER WAS STUCK OVER HERE
AND SHE TELLS US SHE JUST MOVED
HERE.
>> THE POLICE OFFICERS TOLD ME
THAT WOULD IT BE ABOUT 20
MINUTES FOR ME TO JUST SIT HERE,
BECAUSE I LIVE THIS AWAY.
SO I CAN'T GO NOWHERE, AND I
WANT TO JUST GO HOME.
REPORTER: WITH THE EXCEPTION OF
THE AREA YOU SEE BEHIND ME,
TRAFFIC IS MOVING THROUGH IN
AREA, ALBEIT A LITTLE SLOW.
AND OVER ON STREETS RUN ROAD, WE
HAD A LOT OF DAMAGE THERE AS
WELL.
SHE'S FINE NOW, BUT THIS WAS
LISA MICHAELSON'S CAR EARLIER
THIS EVENING.
>> IT HAPPENED WITHIN SECONDS.
ONE SECOND IT WAS FINE, THEN
FIVE SECOND LATER IT WAS
STARTING TO COME UP TO OUR
KNEES.
REPORTER: SHE WAS DRIVING HER
BOSS' DAUGHTER HOME.
BAD TRAFFIC MADE HER REROUTE,
SHE HEADED TO STREETS RUN ROAD
AND THE WEATHER HIT.
>> STARTED FLOATING AND IT SHUT
OFF ON ME.
REPORTER: SO THE CAR WAS
ACTUALLY FLOATING?
>> IT FLOATED TO THE SIDE A
LITTLE.
TRIED TO PUT THE WINDOW DOWN AND
WE WERE ABLE TO PUSH THE DOOR
OPEN, AND I PUSHED HER OUT AND
THEN I HELD THE DOOR OPEN AND
GOT MYSELF OUT AND WE WERE JUST
TRYING TO RUN OUT, AND IT WAS
ABOUT TO OUR WAIST.
REPORTER: THEY WERE SAFE, BUT
HER CAR SUBMERGED.
>> I WAS ABLE TO GET MY PURSE,
MY PURSE WAS FLOATING AND I HAD
MY GRANDMOTHER'S PHOTO ALBUM IN
THE BACK SEAT, SO I WAS ABLE TO
GET THAT IN THE NICK OF TIME.
A LITTLE WATER DAMAGE ON THE
ENDS, BUT THEY ARE OKAY.
REPORTER: UP NORTH IN ROSS
TOWNSHIP, FLOODING TRAPPED
EMPLOYEES INSIDE THIS BABCOCK
BOULEVARD WEIGHT LOSS BUSINESS.
>> THERE WAS AT LEAST FOUR
INCHES IN THERE, IT WAS ALL THE
WAY UP TO THE STAIRS.
>> EVERYTHING IS WET, THE WHOLE
BUILDING IS WET.
THE WATER WAS SEEPING THROUGH
THE WALLS, SO EVERYTHING IS WET.
REPORTER: THEIR LANDLORD RUSHED
OVER TO HELP WITH CLEANUP.
>> I THOUGHT HI IT FIXED,
PUTTING IN SUCH PUMPS.
WE'LL GET IT CLEANED UP TOMORROW
MORNING.
REPORTER: THAT BUSINESS IN ROSS
TOWNSHIP IS HOPING TO BE BACK
OPEN SATURDAY MORNING AT 9:00.
MEANTIME AT THIS INTERSECTION,
WE STILL HAVE PART OF IT SHUT
DOWN, BUT YOU CAN SEE TRAFFIC IS
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