FRANKLIN (WTHR) - In Franklin, Young’s creek looks like a river, running through the middle of town. Outside of town, creeks and streams have over flowed, taking over farm land. Streets are underwater and impassable with flood waters not expected to crest until Sunday, water rescue teams are on standby.
Stephanie Sichting from Johnson County Emergency management is concerned. “When it is dark at night I’m afraid people cant’s see water rushing on the roads and have to be rescued.” She said.
On the far east side of Indianapolis, rising flood water threatened homes and an apartment complex. Some roads were impassable. The water stopped short of residences but stranded a few cars. Blame the rain and beavers for damming up a drainage ditch.
“This is pretty severe for us," said apartment manager Kyle Benner. “We have parking lots impassable because of the flooding. “
The city brought in pumps to control the flooding and plans to clear the debris from the drainage ditch.
The unending rain has plumbers running, “We’ve been busy, call after call after call,” said Erin Jaussaud Johnson of Kelli Plumbing Heating & Cooling.
He and his partner Jose Gozales have been fixing and replacing sump pumps. We caught up with them in the basement of a Greenwood home. This time and most of the time it’s a quick fix. They found kid’s drawing markers and other junk in the water pit fouling up the mechanism that turns the pump on and off. .
“Stuff is getting in the way? “Generally yes, kids throwing stuff in there, markers, pea gravel.” Jaussaud said. And once you get that out? “All is fine.” he answered.
So clean keep junk out of the water pit. They recommend installing a 2nd battery operated pump. So if the first one fails, the backup keeps the basement dry.
Homeowners, cities, towns and counties will be watching rivers and streams all weekend.
In Indianapolis, the White river isn’t expected to crest until Sunday night, 5-6 feet above flood stage.
