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“I’ve lived here for eight years and there are floods once a year, but never that bad.”
Tom Evans from ECHO, 40, who lives in West Derby, said: “I was getting the car ready to take my son to school when a neighbor told me the road was flooded.
“I thought how bad it can be … but then I looked and there was water gushing down a drain at the end of our closure, where it normally never floods.
“The intersection of Deysbrook Lane and Melwood Avenue was the worst. I’ve lived here eight years and it floods once a year, but never that bad.”
He added: “” We had to walk down the trail next to Deysbrook Lane and then climb up a wall, because the water was a couple feet deep across the width of the road.
“Leyfield Road was bad too, and there are five schools on or off that road, so it was chaos, but the cars were about to pass.”
A Deysbrook Lane resident, who did not want to be named, was offering passersby a ladder to help them scale the wall to escape the flooding.
She said: “This has been going on for 20 years.
“They say they have fixed the drains every year, but then it happens again.
“I called at 7.55 in the morning and said it was going to flood … now it’s more than an hour later and they just arrived.”
A police officer at the scene told ECHO shortly after 9 a.m. that they were simply trying to handle the situation and that as long as the rain continued to fall, they couldn’t tell when the roads would be clear.
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