This past Saturday, as storms takeover Kansas City, the home of yet another family was flooded in an ongoing ambush of heavy rain that has been going on throughout the month.

Unfortunately, many of the families who live in the area were ill-prepared to handle the excessive amount of flooding that came their way, mainly due to being misinformed as to exactly how much rain they should expect.

For example, when one local family, the Laudie’s, first made the decision to move to Kansas City, they were told that the ranch home they owned only flooded once every 10 years – which would only mean a minimum of a foot or two that would be near their basement. However, after this past week they would quickly learn that that was not the case.

It was due to this previous information that the homeowners were not too worried when a neighbor called to let them know that the river was rising because of oncoming rains. However, the Laudie’s quickly realized that the rain would not be stopping anytime soon.

Because of this, Steve Laudie states that, “we decided to pull stuff from the basement up to the main floor. It kept rising and rising.” However, it turns out that those preventative measures were not enough, considering that rescuers had to come and rescue the family, along with 190 other people as storms kept on hitting the Kansas City area – complete with about five tornadoes.

Roughly 35 houses had water inside of them. Luckily, no injuries were reported from the onslaught of rain that hit the city that day – so much rain that the river ended up cresting at over 30 feet.