LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — An condominium flooding final week left some residents scrambling to save lots of what they might.
In a narrative 8 Information Now Investigators first introduced you final week, one resident mentioned the cleanup is dragging on and administration isn’t providing a lot assist.
Ankle-deep water is just not what Barry Hammond and his spouse anticipated once they moved into the Harmon Flats close to Paradise and Harmon final Might.
“The water got up to roughly midcalf throughout the entire apartment,” Hammond mentioned, describing the terrifying scene.
He mentioned the flood waters broken his unit.
“There’s water damage on the floor throughout. Doors are warped. Things have come off the wall. You can look at the floors and see water damage as far as that goes,” he mentioned.
He additionally mentioned the water broken his property.
“We lost the motorized part of our adjustable bed. About a $600 or $700 item,” Hammond mentioned. “A couple of smaller things, but that’s the biggest thing we lost and things we’ve just had to deal with and kind of walk through.”
The flooding occurred early final Friday morning.
“Our next-door neighbor at about 7:30 in the morning started knocking on everybody’s door, to wake them up, get them out of the house to let them know their apartment was flooded,” Hammond mentioned.
Days later, sandbags and followers nonetheless line the property as residents proceed cleanup.
“They did send out some blowers for the unit,” Hammond defined, stating what he mentioned was clear flood harm in his condominium unit. “Right in here, you see a drywall that’s separated now, a drywall that’s crumbled. The flood was so high, the curtains or drapes got messed up in the flood, and they couldn’t be reused.”
Hammond mentioned he needs administration would do extra to help residents, particularly those that are aged or disabled.
“The last thing they told me is ‘We provided fans. We’re done,’” he mentioned. “I said, ‘What about some credits on rent toward some of the damage – what can we do?’”
He mentioned administration’s response was ‘Nope, there are no credits. We’re not going to do something.’
Administration for the complicated wouldn’t present an replace or assertion to eight Information Now.
