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# Photo: Lake Avenue Is A Lake, Residents Pumping Out Water
- URL: https://bklyner.com/photo-lake-avenue-is-a-lake-residents-pumping-out-water-sheepshead-bay/
- Published: 2013-05-08T15:59:16.000Z
- Updated: 2013-05-08T16:00:11.000Z
- Author: Ned Berke
- Tags: Floods, lake ave, missy haggerty, #API-Imported

![](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/lake-ave.jpg "lake-ave")

We received the above photo from Missy Haggerty, the Lake Avenue resident who helped [lead dozens of neighbors to safety](/quick-thinking-bungalow-residents-and-landlord-with-heart-of-gold-rescue-neighbors-during-flooding/) out of the flooded corridor during Superstorm Sandy.

Missy tells us the bungalow courts remain underwater even as most of the water from [this morning’s flash floods](/photos-flash-floods-strike-southern-brooklyn-coastal-communities/) have receded elsewhere. The courts are below street level, and the drains – which, we’re told, are not connected to city sewer lines – were still clogged from Sandy, causing all the water to back up.

Residents are using pumps to get the water out now, and we’re told by a rep in Councilman Lew Fidler’s office that they’re working to get the Department of Environmental Protection on scene to help pump the water out of the alleyways.