HOUSE SPRINGS, Mo. — Many residents in Jefferson County are dealing with the aftermath of Monday night's flooding, including downed trees and flooded schools.
Valley Middle School and the Northwest R-I School District headquarters in House Springs flooded after Bear Creek rose drastically.
Water was flowing inside some classrooms and the gym. There was about three feet of water right outside the school district doors.
"We had alumni coming out, showing up to help clear the roads and the parking lots. It was neighbor helping neighbor here," said District Superintendent Dr. Jennifer Hecktor.
Bear Creek is right behind the school, which was a huge problem Monday night as debris was thrown all over campus.
Thankfully, nobody was injured or trapped by the flooding.
Hecktor said she doesn't think the flooding should impact the upcoming school year but is worried about the creek rising again later Tuesday evening.
Restoration crews spent all night into Tuesday helping clean the water up.
Hecktor said the creek has never flooded the school this badly before.
"Nothing is stopping that creek from coming up. Fortunately, from what I understand, this is a 20-ish-year event. Many alumni who were here last night said it hasn't happened this bad in 50 years," she said.
Just a couple blocks away, the flash flooding damaged a mobile home park on Indian Springs Road and flooded several homes, including Alyssia Bingman's.
"My flooding is in the backyard and then into my trailer. And then I have a pond going into my front porch right now. Usually, it's never this bad. When it does get bad, we usually have other routes. We never have lost power like this before," Bingman said,
The flooding was so strong that many residents had to evacuate and had not returned as of Tuesday evening.
Bingman said multiple trees came crashing down. One tree even toppled onto her neighbor's house.
"The fire rescue truck with a boat here yesterday had to evacuate her with the ambulance because she is bedridden so that she couldn't leave. They evacuated her, and then my next-door neighbor, his wife, is on oxygen, so they had to evacuate them too," Bingman said.
Residents said they were without power for 10 hours Monday night into Tuesday morning.
Part of Indian Springs Road was still closed and blocked off to traffic Tuesday as crews continued to fix downed phone lines in the middle of the road.