Cannot Be Occupied: In Photos
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Ursula Ruhl
Photographer
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Nearly two dozen homes in Webster Groves, most of them on East Pacific and North Forest avenues near Deer Creek, were flooded twice during last week's flash flooding. The Times met with East Pacific Avenue resident Jennifer Redeker as she sifted through the damage. Read our full story here.
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Jennifer Redeker surveys her bedroom looking for any valuables that may be salvageable. In the end, everything that Redeker was able to save from her East Pacific Avenue home fit into a single Rubbermaid container. | photo by Ursula Ruhl
Jennifer Redeker points to the portion of her house on East Pacific Avenue where bedroom is located. Her bed is directly below the window where the floodwaters began pouring in during the early morning hours of Tuesday, July 26. She said at one point the water level inside the home was so high, her mattress was touching the ceiling. Redeker suffered injuries to her leg when she was pinned against the wall by the refrigerator that became dislodged by the rushing water. Redeker, and her 11-year-old daughter and 31-year-old son who live with her, along with their two dogs and three guinea pigs, were safely rescued from the home by boat at about 6 a.m. on Tuesday, July 26, about two hours after the floodwaters started rising in their home. | photo by Ursula Ruhl
Jennifer Redeker shows how high the floodwaters reached on the back of her house. | photo by Ursula Ruhl
This is one of two large containers that ended up in Jennifer Redeker's back yard after the flooding. Because her house sits at the bottom of the hill and the lowest point on the block, many items that were dislodged by the floodwaters washed down to her yard. | photo by Ursula Ruhl
Jennifer Redeker steps over stuffed animals and other items among the sludge. | photo by Ursula Ruhl
Jennifer Redeker turns over soaked couch cushions and pushes water-logged furniture from her path as she makes her way through the living room. | photo by Ursula Ruhl
Jennifer Redeker surveys the aftermath of the flooding that engulfed her East Pacific Avenue home twice during last week's historic rainfall and flash flooding on Tuesday, July 26, and then again on Thursday, July 28. | photo by Ursula Ruhl
North Forest and East Pacific (above) avenues were flooded Tuesday morning, July 26, when Deer Creek spilled its banks, then again 48 hours later when heavy rain caused another round of flash flooding on Thursday afternoon, July 28. | photo by Jaime Mowers
The flooded basement of the North Forest Avenue home of Val Murdock and Carol Crook. Murdock was in her basement cleaning up from Tuesday’s flash flood when the water level in the basement began rising again with the rainfall on Thursday afternoon that brought another round of flooding. | photo courtesy of Val Murdock
Pat Magruder attempts to unclog the sewer drain in front of his son’s home on North Forest Avenue in Webster Groves after the downpour on Thursday, July 28. Pat and his wife were in town from the Chicago area to help their son and daughter-in-law, Chris and Jill Magruder, clean up from Tuesday’s flash flooding when a second round of storms hit Thursday afternoon and flooded many homes on the block again. | photo by Jaime Mowers
Caution tape blocks off the end of North Forest Avenue after the flooding on Thursday, July 28. Residents had already hauled many ruined items to the curb after the flash flooding that occurred earlier in the week on Tuesday, July 26, when the rain and another round of flooding hit 48 hours later. | photo by Jaime Mowers
Chris Magruder stands in front of his North Forest Avenue in Webster Groves after the downpour on Thursday, July 28. He and his wife were cleaning up from Tuesday’s flash flooding when a second round of storms hit Thursday afternoon and flooded many homes on the block again. | photo by Jaime Mowers
Ursula Ruhl
Photographer
