Flooding On Garbage Day Leaves Neighborhood A Trashy Mess [VIDEO]

ST. CLAIR SHORES (WWJ) - Heavy rains overnight have turned roads and parking lots into waterways -- but for one neighborhood waiting for trash day, things are really a mess.

Residents on Doremus Street, near 9 Mile Road and Jefferson Avenue in St. Clair Shores, woke up Tuesday morning to quite a surprise: Their street flooded and was transformed into a garbage-filled canal.

"I think two of my trash cans are down there and I think we've all traded trash -- I've got some other people's, they have mine," Sue Enright told WWJ's Charlie Langton.

Water that's well above ankle-deep has completely covered the street. It's so deep that trash collectors with Rizzo Services can't get their trucks through to collect the garbage.

"For whatever reason any time we get heavy rain the street backs up, floods and fills with whatever else is floating around," said Alex, who lives in the area.

At this point, residents say all they can do is wait for the water to subside before they can clean up the mess.

"It's happened several times over the course of the years. Fortunately it doesn't really get any worse than having the street fill up, so nobody's really suffered any real property damage as a result," said Allen Newmerth. "Once they get our sump pumps going, it will be gone in about an hour, two hours. My guess is Rizzo will be back later this afternoon to pick up (the trash)."

City officials haven't given a timetable for when the flooding will be cleared.