LACKAWANNA COUNTY, Pa. — "She's in that house four years. How many times do you think it flooded. Four years, did you see it the latest time," said Tom Drewes.
He is one of the many people along Monroe Avenue and surrounding streets in Dunmore without a home after a water main break last week left feet of water gushing onto the road and into their basements.
"We've been cleaning up, we've been taking out wet, everything, everything that's wet," said Drewes. "Mentally exhausting, pretty much."
Monday night saw Drewes and other neighbors express concerns to Dunmore Borough Council about what they say is an uncertain future.
"When it breaks, it needs to go somewhere," said Danny Drewes of Dunmore. "So it's like, what is the path moving forward."
"How is my foundation, and who do I get to check that foundation and make sure it's going to be secure," asked Dunmore Resident Steve Kochis.
"I don't have the words that's going to make you guys feel any better, but I sympathize to the nth degree with you people it's horrible," said Thomas Hallinan, a member of Dunmore Borough Council
Representatives from Pennsylvania American Water, the company responsible for maintaining the sewers around the flooded area, did not attend the public portion of the meeting.
They did meet with the council in private earlier in the night to discuss possible solutions.
"A few of the neighbors are saying when it rains, they're on pins and needles, and that's no way to live," says Council President Vince Amico.
He says the borough plans to hold a future meeting with the public and water company to learn what exactly went wrong and how to avoid something like this from happening again.
"It was a mechanical failure. I'll put it that way, but they've also been for years having issues with stormwater on the bottom of the hill, and that's not fair,'" said Amico. "The issue has not yet been fixed."