Lake Delhi Residents Begin to Clean Up

Cheryl Gotto throws a pile of close from the closet floor into a garbage heap in her bedroom in Linden Acres on Lake Delhi as friends and family help her and her husband, Jerry Gotto, clean up after the flood on Sunday, July 25, 2010. (Julie Koehn/The Gazette)

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By Tracey McCullough

Story Created: Jul 25, 2010 at 12:29 PM CDT

Story Updated: Jul 25, 2010 at 12:29 PM CDT

Cheryl Gotto said she wanted new carpet in her permanent home in the Linden Acres area on Lake Delhi, but not like this.

Her and her husband, Jerry Gotto, have lived on the property at 26355 212th Avenue since 1993, and had never seen anything like this. The most the water had ever come close to the couple’s home was the first step on the deck, and even then it had several feet to go before reaching the first floor den.

But at midnight on Saturday, Jerry awoke to go to the bathroom and Cheryl decided to get up as well and noticed the water creeping up the deck. She went to the backyard and saw there was “a pond” outside. They grabbed her purse, his billfold, and his medicine, as he had recently undergone a hip replacement. They took off to go to a friend’s home where they stayed.

Sunday has been spent with friends and family cleaning up the mess and throwing out furniture, carpet, appliances and other possessions.

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