Louisville Flood in August, 2009

Flood on August 4, 2009 in Louisville, KY around Taylor Blvd, Thornberry, and Bohannon streets. You can see the parking lot of Churchill Downs in the distance past the guy in the boat.

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[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.

[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.

[gpmyles]

@amicizia369 they think they are so tough huh lol

[amicizia369]

why the hell do people try to drive in this

[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

[RCTPatriot75]

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

[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]

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.

[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.