Louisville Flood in August, 2009

[amicizia369]

why the hell do people try to drive in this

[gpmyles]

@amicizia369 they think they are so tough huh lol

[kentuckyidiots]

If you're too stupid to stay out of the water, that's your own fault. I lived in Lousiville at the time and there was a lot of stupid people doing stupid stuff like walking in waist deep water or driving through it and stalling. Stupid hillbillies

[WickedWind6]

If the smell is there, then bacteria is there, and your health is at risk. Please people, go to the next town meeting and rip Metro Government to pieces - this event and their lack of help was a disgrace. Open wounds + sewage = disease. Next meeting is Monday, Sept. 21 at Atherton High School, Small Gym

3000 Dundee Way. Unless you speak out nothing will change....the only thing "Unbridled" in Kentucky is it's Government.

[deepdli]

I bought some stuff at Grimes Vacuum at the corner of Barrett & Broadway that did the trick.  It's called 'Unique Pet Odor & Stain Remover'. It's got active bacteria that literally digests all of the stuff causing the odor. I paid around $13 for it, but it was well worth it!

[WickedWind6]

Louisville Residents were not made aware of the health repercussions of this incident - yet Louisville requested Disaster Aid. Yes, it was a disaster, and residents - men, women, children and the elderly should not have been forced to wade through this excrement tainted sewage - the National Guard should have been deployed to assist residents, and residents should not have had to truck their sewage ridden belongings to three locations throughout the city - this just adds ot more contamination .

[WickedWind6]

There is Recovery mony available to Kentucky, however Jerry Abramson has chosen to use it for more blacktop and brick pavers, and a $130 million for another bridge. Louisville Kentucky has the highest cancer rate in the Nation, and Kentucky refuses to provide EPA with info on birth defects. Residents must begin pressuring Louisville Metro to stop spending money on illusions to "pretty up" the town for Derby Season, and spend the money to get it's residents out of this perpetual cesspool

[WickedWind6]

The fact that MSD has allowed this to happen over and over again is a disgrace. They are well aware of the issue and the health ramifications - residents forced to live in their own feces, yet state these homes are still "livable". Sewage will breed the Serratia Marcesens bacteria - a know human pathogen, so if you have pink rings around your water at home (pet bowls, sinks, toilet bowls) you are at risk for respiratory ailments, urinary tract infections, arthtitis, not to mention eColi.

[Aeropostale144]

i Live Right Off Valley Station And It Was FLOODED !

[kelboswell]

Does anyone have any pointers about getting the sewage smell out of an unfinished basement? It has a concrete floor. I pulled all of the 'crap' out with a carpet shampooer and bleached the concrete, but the smell keeps coming back.

[uofl3000]

Throw the carpet out, re-bleach the concrete and then wash it down good with some power green cleaner. You will probably have to use a lot.

[RCTPatriot75]

Use an oxidized bleaching agent. There are also several enzyme cleaners that might be effective.

[carsonky]

So strange. I live in Valley Station and got next to no rain. Just a lot of wind.

[the4x4ster]

presure wash walls and floor? dunno alot perfume lol

[charice22]

sucks that the belknap campus is closed today, yet i still have to come into work at the hsc campus

[JesseG88]

I live on the east side of Louisville. Luckily, my basement remained completely dry.

[myfavoriteperson]

So I would imagine that the highlands are still relatively dry. right?

[ClanDemented]

my house is ruined/

[kelboswell]

That's too bad. I'm lucky I only had about 2 inches of sewage in my basement. It stinks, but I'll survive.

[ajepo7]

This flooding is horrible... I do find it interesting, however, that those people are walking around in the six inches of water, while that guy is trying to get around in a fishing boat. May I suggest, as someone states at the end of the video, that he takes the boat downtown or to UofL's campus where its really needed?

[jasonfnsaint]

Yeah dude, it's unreal on the U of L campus.