ST. CHARLES, Mo. (First Alert 4) – Rain fell fast Thursday afternoon in St. Charles and led to flash flooding on busy streets.<\/p>\n
Lauren Parle was on her way home from work when she said out of nowhere rain fell fast.<\/p>\n
\u201cLiterally looked like there was a lake on top of the intersection with actual waves,\u201d Parle said.<\/p>\n
Parle said water filled the roads at the intersection of Cave Springs Rd. and Mexico Rd.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe water started dumping from the sky. Not like your normal waterfall. It was like someone filled up a bucket and was dumping it onto your windshield. The outer lanes people started not driving on them and turned their hazards on because the water was pouring over their car as they were driving through,\u201d Parle said.<\/p>\n
St. Charles County Councilman Tim Baker saw photos of the flooding and was shocked.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought it was AI. I didn\u2019t think it was real. Unfortunately it is real. We\u2019ve got a lot of issues in the county, in St. Charles County, with stormwater. We don\u2019t have an MSD out here.\u201d<\/p>\n
St. Louis City and St. Louis County have MSD to address stormwater concerns and issues.<\/p>\n
Baker said St. Charles County handles it in unincorporated areas and then municipalities are responsible for their own communities, which he said makes it a challenge to approach regionally.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have people that can\u2019t sleep at night when it rains because they know when they wake up there will be flooding in their basement. No one should live like that,\u201d Baker said.<\/p>\n
In St. Charles County Baker said he\u2019s tried to get bond issues to fund stormwater projects but they\u2019ve never come to fruition.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a lot of stormwater problems but we have no mechanism to fund it. Currently we have stormwater studies we\u2019re doing in my district to try to address some of these issues but once we get the studies they\u2019re going to sit on the shelf because there is no funding to do anything,\u201d Baker said.<\/p>\n
When Parle got home from work on Thursday she also saw water pouring over the retaining wall in her neighbors backyard.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe all sit essentially we back up to a big farm. There\u2019s a sewer and it couldn\u2019t keep up so it essentially created a waterfall in my neighbors backyard,\u201d Parle said.<\/p>\n
Baker said it is one of his priorities to improve stormwater issues across St. Charles County.<\/p>\n
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