Residents flee flooded homes by boat due to broken water pipe in Massachusetts

LOWELL, Mass. (WHDH) – Huge flooding in a neighborhood in Massachusetts was attributable to a damaged water important.

With streets and automobiles underwater, rescue crews went door-to-door in boats.

Households had been rescued from their properties with water rising after the break in Lowell.

“It went quick,” Lowell resident Natasha Furtado described.

“I noticed water speeding in round 3 o’clock, went again out about 3:45 and there was automobiles like three-quarters submerged,” one other resident described.

Water flooded streets and a few buildings between Father Morissette Boulevard and Merrimack Avenue with Moody and Race streets most impacted.

“The water is like proper there on the edge,” Furtado added. “So if it goes up a little bit bit, it’s going to go proper into her home.”

Folks shortly realized one thing was incorrect.

“First, the hearth alarm went off after which the lights died,” Cindy Braasch described.

Braasch lives in a housing advanced that was impacted by the flooding.

“Now, the basement of our constructing is flooding. There’s no gentle. There hasn’t been water for a pair hours,” Braasch stated.

Braasch, alongside together with her cat Bradon, left to remain someplace for the night time.

“Yeah, that’s my poor child and I don’t know what to do about him both. He’s freezing,” the Lowell lady added.

Late Monday, the cleanup had began and shelters had additionally opened as many households labored to determine what comes subsequent.

“Yeah, I’m freezing and I’m attempting to maintain her heat,” one man stated.

“I really feel actually, actually dangerous as a result of these folks, their complete basement is totally, fully flooded. Folks’s automobiles are ruined and stuff like that and identical to yeah, it’s unbelievable,” one other resident described.

A number of hundred folks had been displaced and town opened two emergency shelters to assist residents.

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