(19 Feb 2025)
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Detroit – 19 February 2025
1. Crews work to fix a water main break that flooded a city neighborhood
2. Various of resident Linda Hoskins speaking to a worker
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Hoskins, home impacted by flooding:
“It was just pouring in. I mean, the only thing I can really say is: It was just like a movie.”
4. Various of repair work being done
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Hoskins, home impacted by flooding:
“And it just happened so fast. I mean, it was like: Are we all going to drown?”
6. Neighborhood resident Claudia Ortiz pets her dog
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Claudia Ortiz, home impacted by flooding:
“Sometimes, I think I’m still in shock, because everybody, like, ‘How are you standing it?’ I don’t even know if I really feel cold or anything. I’m just scared.”
8. Ortiz boils water in the kitchen to try to keep warm
9. Various of Ortiz and her dog on the couch
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Claudia Ortiz, home impacted by flooding:
“My power tools, I do that for a living, so it’s really important for me to see what I can salvage to keep working. I’m a single mom, and I need to keep working. It’s pretty scary.”
11. Various of the work site
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Jaime Carrillo, business impacted by flooding:
“So, I mean, it’s not shocking, because we know our infrastructure is older. And they don’t really keep maintenance on it.”
13. A crew member speaks to a resident
14. A worker attaches a beam to an excavating machine
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Jaime Carrillo, business impacted by flooding:
“If it’s going to happen, it’s going to happen again. But the thing is that we don’t know, right? And it’s kind of hard to prepare for something like that.”
16. The excavator at work
STORYLINE:
One of Claudia Ortiz’s neighbors called her early Monday to say the street outside their Detroit home was filling up with water.
A few hours later, a deluge from a large water transmission main cascaded through narrow streets and into basements in the tight-knit, working-class neighborhood a few miles southwest of downtown.
“Sometimes, I think I’m still in shock,” Ortiz said Wednesday from her living room.
“I’m just scared,” she said.
About 2 a.m. Monday, a 54-inch steel water main suddenly burst yards from Ortiz’s front door, sending water coursing out of a widening crater in all directions. More than 90 people had to be helped from their homes.
The water main was built around 1930. Officials still were trying to determine what caused the huge pipe to burst, but temperatures were well below freezing at the time of the break.
The waters receded after the break was found and the water flow stopped.
Officials have said nearly 400 homes are in the emergency flood zone.
Linda Hoskins’ home also was without gas heat Wednesday. Her furnace and water heater likely were damaged beyond repair when her basement flooded.
“It was just pouring in. I mean, the only thing I can really say is: It was just like a movie,” she said.
The city has secured hotel rooms for people displaced by the flooding and without heat after furnaces became submerged. But like Ortiz and some others, Hoskins has chosen to remain home.
Crews have excavated around the site where the transmission main burst. According to officials, it is expected to take at least two weeks for repairs to be completed and the water main returned to service.
“It’s kind of hard to prepare for something like that,” said Jaime Carrillo (HEYE’-meh keh-REE’-yoh), who owns a business impacted by the flooding.
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