‘It looked like a white river on both sides of the house’

Greg Williams fell asleep Sunday night in the basement man cave at his house  at 223 N. Spring St., only to be awakened a couple hours later by the incessant mewing of his cat.

He opened his eyes to see water trickling into the room around a steel door on the exposed basement.

“Some was even shooting through the lock,” Williams said, so he went upstairs to get his wife Linda.

“We no sooner got down there and the door tore right off the frame,” he said.