Rhode Island is suffering from the most horrible flood after heavy flooding on Tuesday 30 March, 2010. By this flood many building have been destroyed or flooded and Warwick mall is one of them. Warwick Mall has been 2 to 3 feet under of water since the start of the flood.
The water flooded in to the mall on Tuesday afternoon, when the Pawtuxet River bursts its banks and it started leaking in to the building. Warwick Mall has been open from 40 years wiythout havind any issue of flooding. The owners do not what to expect in terms of damage inside the building and stores.
The insider retailers were not prepared for this level of flooding so they could not save all merchandise. The security guard was trapped in the mall during the flooding, but now rescue workers saved him by using a boat.
Mall owner Aram Garabedian told the Journal, “There is water throughout the mall, we have a great level of damage … All I know is it was a disaster. It’s very bad.”
J. David Smith of Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency said “We don’t want anybody to be caught in a situation where there is a flash flood or where it rises so quickly that they’re trapped in their property. It puts not only those families but the responders at risk to get them out of there,”.
Warwick mall is one of the biggest malls of the USA. It has the best in women’s, men’s & children’s fashions and full array of dining and entertainment choices at the Carousel Food Court, full-service restaurants and movie theaters.
Photos of Warwick mall after flood
