Q&A WITH JUSTIN JONES

Q: How did you find out about the flooding?

A: I got called by Mike Dickerson who was notified by the 911 center through our on-call list.

Q: Do you interact personally with any of the homeowners in the area?

A: I did have interaction with two of the residents. One was actually assisting in helping me look for the storm drains and the other was just making sure he didn’t need to leave his residence.

Q: How bad was the flood, was it a threat?

A: The flooding was pretty bad for that area. In my tenure with the Town of Easton we’ve never had an issue like that. It wasn’t an immediate threat to damaging anything, but it was halfway up to most of the residences in that area.

Q: How long were you at the flood site?

A: I was at the flood site from 9:30 pm Friday till 8 am Saturday morning.

Q: What were you able to do to get the flooding fixed?

A: To get the flooding to go away we tried using a firetruck to draft water out of a storm drain and send it to another storm drain system but that was not working like I hoped, so we called Mr. Rooter to respond out with their jet truck and jet the pipe to see if they could get it to clear. After around 4 hours of doing the jetting we finally broke through the blockage and the water drained like it was supposed to.

Q: How does it feel to solve a problem that posed a threat to our community?

A: It was a good feeling when we finally got the flooding to recede because I’ll admit I was getting very frustrated and nervous when the water wouldn’t go down. Big thing is that it’s part of my job and myself and my crew, when it comes to an emergency like this one we give it 110% until we solve the issue.