Barberton couple picks up pieces after home is ruined by flash flooding

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As portions of Northeast Ohio recover from tornado damage, areas in Summit County are cleaning up after flash flooding.

In the light of the day Friday, crews were surveying the damage left behind after heavy rains Thursday night led to flooding in parts of Akron, Barberton, and Cuyahoga Falls. While some power washed sidewalks and parking lots, other people were stuck in the mud.

In Barberton, Roger and Tammy Mears were working off three hours of sleep, clearing up debris from their basement and trying to salvage the memories left after heavy rains.

"We lost everything," Roger Mears lamented.

Thursday evening, Roger was in the basement after noticing water seeping inside. His wife came to give him a hand, but the situation took a turn for the worse.

Water was quickly filling the area, and the Mearses started fearing for their lives as the wall started collapsing. They got out just in time, but they lost decades worth of memories.

"I lost stuff from my parents, I lost everything for all the years we've been together," Roger told 3News. "We've been together for almost 40 years, and we lost a lot of stuff that we had together."

Video footage from their outside camera shows them up against a powerful force of water as it gushed out of the basement for nearly an hour. While the basement is filled with mud and debris, it isn't the only damage, as their front yard also collapsed.

Mitti Hicks reports: www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/summit-county/flas…
コメント (8)
  • @ProJoe-xb5ie
    God bless all the people affected by the flooding in bad weather
  • @VampFaye
    I live just around the corner from this family. The area they live in was hit hard and hadn't flooded like this in decades. We were lucky, as our home sits just high enough that we only had a wet basement. So many in this area are low-income renters, who didn't know that it can flood. Of course, their landlord's don't tell them beforehand. They should be made to disclose these types of things before renting. So many families lives destroyed.
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