When chest-high waters receded from Lexington Street one year ago, Erica Brown hesitated to step outside into the single-digit temperatures.
“It looked like a beach, a mini beach,” remembers Brown, who looked out the window of her two-story house as water from a 54-inch water main break submerged the cars and homes of Brown and her neighbors.
“It was very hard, very sudden, very quick, very unstoppable,” she said. “You couldn’t even stop this stuff from happening, because the water was just overpowering everything.”…