- Whitney Redd filmed a wave of water crashing against her basement window.
- It happened in the midst of a historic storm on Tuesday night.
A Utah family was caught completely off guard when a massive wall of water crashed through their basement window during a once-in-a-100-year flood, just two months after they renovated their home.
Shocking footage shared online by Whitney Redd shows her children rushing to get a keyboard and other supplies from a basement office as water began to leak through a window on Tuesday night.
She could be heard screaming, “Oh no,” as water began to soak the floor of their Orem home before her husband realized his efforts were futile.
“It’s going to break,” he warns, as he shouts to his family: “Get back, get back.”
Almost instantly after the warning, a wall of water came through the window, sending an office chair flying and forcing Redd to scream in fear.
Shocking footage shared online shows a wall of water crashing through a family’s basement window on Tuesday night.
Whitney Redd said the flooding occurred in the basement her family uses as her in-laws’ apartment.
She said the flooding occurred in the basement of her three-bedroom Orem home, valued at nearly $850,000, which the family uses as an apartment for her in-laws.
red told KSL-TV How her family rushed to check on her in-laws as an afternoon storm moved rapidly through the city of nearly 100,000, dumping massive amounts of rain and golf ball-sized hail.
“We ran over and noticed there was a leak,” Redd said of the family’s discovery in the basement.
Her husband then began “trying to get in through the window, trying to get the hail out, trying to get the rain out, just trying to get things out,” she said, when he realized it was fruitless.
“(My husband) says, ‘It’s coming down too fast. There’s no way we can get all of this out. Get out of the room, get out of the room,'” she said. he told Fox 13.
At that point the family moved again and the water came pouring in.
The footage shows Redd’s children trying to remove a keyboard from the basement office as water began to leak in.
The basement was flooded with a foot and a half to two feet of water.
Redd would later describe the incident as “surreal, just surreal, (with) all that water coming in.”
“We had recently been to Niagara Falls and it was like that in our house,” she said.
The home received about a foot and a half to two feet of water, but no injuries were reported.
“Everyone is safe, it’s just a house,” Redd said. “It really sucks, but it’s just a house.”
She said her family has since installed fans in the basement in an attempt to dry it out, and neighbors have helped clean out the apartment, removing the plank flooring and most everything else.
But unfortunately, the flooding came just two months after the Redd family remodeled their basement due to a sewage backup.
The Redd family had just renovated the basement apartment of their Orem home two months earlier.
“Now they’re back to square one. It’s devastating,” Redd’s sister said. wrote in an online fundraiser to help the family with the second round of remodeling expenses.
More than $5,000 had been raised for the Redd family as of Sunday evening, as residents across the city continue to clean up damage from the devastating storm, which dumped 0.75 inches of rain in just 20 minutes on Tuesday.
This is close to the desert city’s monthly average of 0.95 inches, while the city only receives about 13 inches of rain each year.
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