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Help comes and goes at flooded Cleveland home

The home on Empire Ave has been causing flood problems for residents in the area for weeks.

What initially looked like at a chance to bring a solution to the flooding issues that flooded a home and damaged two others, took a different turn Thursday afternoon.

A steady stream of water flowed from a hose coming from the basement of an Empire Avenue home, through a fence and out to the backyard where a puddle began to grow.

A flood clean-up crew was called in remove about six feet of water sitting in the home. At first, it was a sigh of relief for neighbors Pamela Pitts and Paula Fowlkes whose homes sustained water damage from the flood.

“I’m so glad someone did come and started getting rid of this water,” said Fowlkes.

Fowlkes said a man who used to live at the home was there when the cleanup crew arrived. He apologized to Pitts and Fowlkes for the damage to her homes.

But just about an hour after a flood cleanup arrived to begin pumping the remaining water from the Empire Ave. home, the flood crew returned only to stop the process – a third of the way complete – because they claimed the man who called them did not come through with the full $500 payment.

“It’s just all a scam” Fowlkes said. “It’s just all a scam.”

Fowlkes said the same man who apologized early in the day, later called to ask if she could pay $300 until he came back.

“I can’t. I don’t have $300 to give him.”

And just like that, the neighbors were left out in the cold – again.

“So what do we do now? Still, where’s the water going to go.”

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