MOORE, Okla. ( KFOR ) — A family of 10 say their landlord has done nothing the past four years to stop a bedroom in their house from flooding each time it rains, leading some of their children to go without a bedroom.
Eight kids can be a handful.
“They definitely needed a little bit a of space,” Preston Sumner said.
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It’s why, when Sumner and his wife were looking for a house to rent four years ago, they went with one they found in Moore—complete with four separate bedrooms.
“We wanted a place that was going to have enough room for all of us,” Sumner said. “Four bedrooms was as big as we can find here.”
His boys got to share the biggest room: a converted garage with lots of space to spread out.
“[It] is where we had their bunk beds, they could play with their toys everywhere,” Sumner said.
In theory, it was a perfect room. But in practice, it took just one rainstorm to change their mind.
“My oldest son, Jason, rolled out of bed, his feet hit the floor, he started screaming for us,” Sumner said. “And we came in here and he was like, ‘hey the floor is wet. I don’t know what’s going on.’”