“The rental equipment alone is going to bankrupt some of us' - Some Draper residents are left with thousands of dollars worth of damage due to the melting snowpack and for many, insurance won't cover a dime. MythiliGubbi
The basement of her home was her mom’s apartment. That was until water from the ground seeped into her carpet, and flooded the area. On Easter Sunday, they saw a little bit of water coming through the floor and did their best to dry it.“The entire basement was completely soaked,” she said. “And we started to demolish immediately.”
“The rental equipment alone is going to bankrupt some of us. We have to have usually 15 to 20 fans going almost 24 hours a day, and dehumidifiers in each room. It’s just not sustainable at this point,” she said. And she said her insurance won’t help. “Insurance is covering nothing. For almost all of us up here, the fine print says no groundwater, so financially, emotionally, we’re all physically exhausted, because most of us are trying to handle this on our own, along with our everyday lives.”“This community was built and it has some of the most amazing people I’ve ever met, but it was not meant to withstand this snowpack.
Causing concerns for all of them. “I’m up about every 90 minutes to 2 hours just to make sure pumps are working, going, that there are no issues,” she said. “It’s pretty sleepless around here, you can see the lights on at night. People are checking their houses to make sure everything is okay.”
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