On Tuesday evening, in some South Lorain neighborhoods, streets turned into streams and roads into rivers.
“I work from home, and it starts raining, the kids are excited; ‘Oh it’s raining,’ I’m like crap that’s not fun for me,” said Katherine Bronish, a mother.
Bronish has been living in her South Lorain home for five years. In July 2023, she began experiencing flooding issues.
“September rolls around and it happens again, and this time goes all the way up to our porch line and up the stairs and floods our entire basement,” she told me.
She claimed that the flood destroyed everything in her basement, including childhood memories stored there.
On Tuesday, Bronish and her husband spent time cleaning out the sewers near her house so that the water could drain after the rain.
“About an hour into it I was like ok, this isn’t going down, I called the sewer department and they said they would be out in a half hour and they didn’t,” she told us.
She wasn’t the only one who felt frustrated.
Lorain Councilmember Angel Arroyo expressed frustration on Facebook.
“It shouldn’t have happened, it definitely shouldn’t have happened,” Arroyo went on.
He stated that on Wednesday, the street department was clearing debris near sewers and installing cameras to ensure that everything was working properly.
Joe Carbonaro of the Lorain Sewer Department said the city is designing and bidding on a $20 million project to increase capacity at the Pearl Avenue and Tacoma Avenue Pump Stations. He stated that the pump station was overwhelmed on Tuesday, despite the fact that all of the equipment was operating properly.
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