{"id":95254,"date":"2025-07-26T23:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T23:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/95254\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T23:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T23:11:09","slug":"summit-residents-cleaning-up-from-flash-flooding-nbc-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/95254\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit residents cleaning up from flash flooding \u2013 NBC Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some families in the southwest suburbs were dealing with the aftermath of flash flooding<\/a> after severe storms<\/a> and heavy downpours on Friday caused power outages, downed trees and flooded basements.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe water started coming in from everywhere, the pumps couldn\u2019t handle it,\u201d said Luis Maciel, a Summit resident. \u201cIt started overheating, then next thing you know, I was sitting on water until 10 at night.\u201d<\/p>\n

Luis Maciel walked NBC Chicago through the damage in the basement of his family\u2019s home. He said everything was floating after the flooding Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust sad, just sad, very sad,\u201d he said. \u201cNothing you could do but wait.\u201d<\/p>\n

His basement was flooded with three feet of water, as shown in a cellphone video shared with NBC Chicago. He\u2019s now cleaning up the mess.<\/p>\n

Maciel said nearly everthing needs to be replaced, including his appliances and electronics.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the worst it\u2019s been that I have ever seen, yes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Neighbors told NBC Chicago it took hours for the water to recede. The rain started Friday around 3 p.m. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Residents shared pictures showing just how bad one intersection looked.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was just tremendously filled with water, like you were in the middle of a lake,\u201d said resident Liliana Martinez.<\/p>\n

Martinez, who lives near 61st Place and 74th Avenue, said they\u2019ve experienced this before.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had to put in a pump in the back of my yard so it wouldn\u2019t come in my yard, but even then it was a tremendous amount of water that I had streams coming into my son\u2019s bedroom of water,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Summit officials said the last time severe flooding occurred was in July 2023. The village’s sewer system was overburdened then, causing the same problem this time around.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like for them to upgrade their sewer systems or help even the homeowners,\u201d she said. \u201cAt least help out with some pumps, give homeowners some kind of help. We\u2019re paying all these taxes\u2014what\u2019s being done?\u201d<\/p>\n

NBC Chicago reached out to the village of Summit for a comment and received the following response: “While much of the flooding has now resided, our Public Works team is diligently working to ensure prompt cleanup and requests that residents place any damaged items by their regular garage pick-up location by Monday, July 28th . Please be mindful of this request and thank you to Public Works for their continued efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n

The statement continued: \u201cThe Village at this time is exploring options that would provide additional assistance to residents. For those affected, it is advised to keep a record of the damage by taking pictures and listing any damaged or destroyed items. Also note to keep receipts for costs incurred during the flood, such as for hotels, clean-up, replacement and repair.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some families in the southwest suburbs were dealing with the aftermath of flash flooding after severe storms and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":95255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,8580,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-95254","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-flooding","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114922067293753437","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}