DIXON, Illinois-- There's not much that happens on Monroe Avenue that surprises Sandy Frey, a resident of 49 years, anymore, not even at 3 a.m. Thursday morning.
"I knew it was raining, but I thought I heard water running in the basement," says Frey.
Thursday morning's flash flood will make it flood number three for Sandy in a year.
"Since we've been through it before, I knew what we had, only before I could get around better than I can now," says Frey.
Sandy's yard was a river, three feet deep, flooded from the creek behind her home.
Her basement flooded, completely covering a generator. The backyard, shed and garage were filled with water and mud as well, leaving all the tools in them questionable for use.
But lucky for this little lady, she has help cleaning up.
Her grandson Dean and a group of his buddies skipped school to scrape and spray the flood away.
"For the past 40 years, every mayor except the last one, say that they are going to clean this up and take care of it so we don't get flooded. None of them have done anything," says Frey.
The frustrated homeowner says city construction within the past few years now causes the once calm creek to turn into a raging river ready to burst.
"I've talked to my neighbors, and we're at the point where if nothing's done, we're going to have to hire a good lawyer and sue the city," says Frey.
Once again Sandy is left to lean on her family for help just hoping for changing tides.
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