Brown Deer family has medical supplies and basement severely damaged after flooding
BROWN DEER, Wis. (CBS 58) -- A mother and her son, who is in a wheelchair, were at their home in Brown Deer when several feet of water flooded their home.
"It was scary feeling to not know in that situation what to do," said Danielle Jones, whose home flooded.
Jones says as she continued to watch the water rise in her basement Sunday morning, Aug. 10, she worried how she could get her 23-year-old son Kerrick Jones, who has muscular dystrophy, safely out of her home.
"The water started coming through the windows and it was just filling up and I called my mom and dad crying. I'm like, I don’t know what to do," said Jones. "I have Kerrick, how am I going to get him out of here if it starts rising up into the house?"
When the family looked out the window they were shocked.
"We had like a pool in the front yard," said Jones.
Anxiously watching the water rise, Jones worried how her and her son could safely get out of their home.
Danielle Jones's flooded home
"For me to like carry him and try to swim through those and being sewage and with him having muscular dystrophy and restrictive lung disease, it wouldn’t have been good for him," said Jones.
Thankfully the water started to recede, but in the aftermath she found her basement full of sewage and water.
"We've lost some of my sons medical equipment that he uses for when he's sick," said Jones. "I've lost my home workspace, tables, couches, washer, drier, my furnace."
She says insurance won't cover the tens of thousands of dollars of damage in her basement, now having to throw out her belongings.
"Every time I go down those stairs it just brings a sad feeling," said Jones. "That was like my second home down there."
There's a GoFundMe to help the family here.