Highland Park Works To Assist Flooded Residents
HIGHLAND PARK (WWJ) - Many Metro Detroit communities are still waiting for the flood waters to recede following Tuesday's heavy rains.
Albertina Jackson and her husband live in the only occupied house on Ford between Hamilton and Davison in Highland Park, where she says the water is up to the stairs of her porch.
When her husband had a stroke, Jackson was grateful and amazed by how quickly emergency workers came to the rescue. "The EMS did come. It didn't take them long to get here, but they had to come all the way up to the stairs to even get him out of the house and get him to the hospital," she said."So, they're asking me, you know, what had he done in the last couple of days -- battling water."
Jackson is upset that the city is relying on only one storm drain. "We're waiting for this to drain out, the water. We'll still be here another week with this kinda water, waiting for one drain," Jackson said.
After hearing Jackson's story on WWJ Newsradio 950, Highland Park Mayor Hubert Yopp said he swung into action to help this family.
"We are going to get her some relief right away. If that water stands, we will be there this morning," he said, earlier Friday.
"In times of crisis you gotta help one another. And I monitor and I ride through the city to see what the needs are. And after assessment I will dispatch whatever resources we have to those locations," he said.
Mayor Yopp said they've been keeping a sharp eye on the flooding situation in the city for the past two days.
"We've been very successful. We had stranded people on McNichols, we got those people out... We're doing what we can to find help.
We have checked FEMA, we're checking every source for any kind of funding to help these people," Yopp said.
Yopp encourages residents to document their loses, take photographs and keep their receipts, in case federal assistance becomes available.
