For more than two decades, Deatrice Waters built her life inside her Southeast Washington home — a place of comfort, memories, and stability. In early February, she woke up to find it transformed into a nightmare.
“The bed was floating when I woke up,” Waters told ABC 7 News.
The flooding followed a water main break near 51st Street and Southern Avenue SE, not far from the Marshall Heights neighborhood.
Nearly a dozen families were displaced after a DC Water pipe burst, sending water rushing into homes while residents slept…