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Kerri Baumann talks about the zoo closing for clean-up after a large monsoon hit and damaged many trees and some awnings the night before.
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Arizona Public Service crews rush to repair or replace downed power poles along Shea Boulevard at 40th Street on Aug. 4, 2017, after a massive storm snapped the wooden poles in half. Tom Tingle/azcentral.com
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Arizona Public Service workers repair downed power lines along Shea Boulevard near 39th Street Aug. 4, 2017, after a massive storm moved through the area the night before. Tom Tingle/azcentral.com
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Power lines are down on Shea Boulevard and 40th Street after a monsoon storm in Phoenix on Aug. 3, 2017. Rob Schumacher/azcentral.com
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Monsoon rains blow manhole covers at Terminal 4 in Phoenix Sky Harbor. Cheryl Evans/azcentral.com
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Views of the Monsoon storm in north Phoenix. Rob Schumacher/azcentral.com
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Storm damage outside of Saguaro branch of Phoenix Library, 46th street south of Thomas Road, on Thursday, Aug. 4.
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Rain falls in Chandler during a monsoon storm on Aug. 3, 2017. Matt Self/azcentral.com
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Rain falls in Tempe on Aug. 3, 2017. Karina Bland/azcentral.com
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A storm shuts down the trails at the Desert Botanical Garden on Aug. 3, 2017. Zachary Hansen/azcentral.com
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Uprooted and damaged trees along 46th Street, south of Thomas Road, on Aug. 4.
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A tree fell into the road at Thunderbird and Cave Creek roads during a storm on Aug. 3, 2017. Richard Obert/azcentral.com
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Heavy rain falls in downtown Phoenix on Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017. Nick Oza/azcentral
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A double rainbow appears after a storm moves through metro Phoenix on Aug. 3, 2017.
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Driving in a rainstorm on East Cactus Road in north Phoenix on Aug. 3, 2017. Rob Schumacher/azcentral.com
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Slow motion video of rain droplets in Chandler, Arizona on Aug. 1, 2017.
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Water erupts out of a manhole at Sky Harbor International Airport during a storm on Aug. 3, 2017. Michael Chow/azcentral.com
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A woman who drove past a “road closed” sign on Citrus Road, just south of Interstate 10 in Goodyear, gets stuck in the mud and has to abandon her car after heavy rains soaked the Valley on July 24, 2017. Tom Tingle/azcentral.com
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Mesa Fire and Medical crews rescued a stranded motorist in Apache Junction on July 24, 2017. Mesa Fire and Medical Department
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Floodwaters race past the Apache Junction Police Department. Robert E. Wheeler Jr./Special for azcentral.com
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People walk across the crosswalk at the start of a monsoon storm in downtown phoenix on July 29, 2017.
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Rain falls in Phoenix on July 24, 2017. Nick Oza/azcentral.com
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Flooding in Apache Junction on S. Ocotillo Road. Robert Geist/azcentral.com
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Water running through the San Tan Heights subdivision off Hunt Highway in San Tan Valley on July 24, 2017. Robert Anglen/azcentral.com
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Flooding in a wash in the San Tan Heights subdivision in San Tan Valley on July 24, 2017. Robert Anglen/azcentral.com
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Mesa firefighters conduct a water rescue on Monday, July 24, 2017. (Mesa Fire and Medical Department)
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Water rushes along 64th Street just north of University Drive in east Mesa on Monday, July 24, 2017. (Wendy Killeen/The Republic)
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Heavy rains create a large pool of water in Mesa’s Ensenada Park on July 24, 2017. Wendy Killeen/azcentral.com
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Rainfall soaks 64th Street in Mesa on July 24, 2017. Wendy Killeen/azcentral.com
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A dust storm moves toward the Valley on July 23, 2017.
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Rain near Seventh Street and Glendale Avenue in Phoenix on July 21, 2017. Lindsey Collom/azcentral.com
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Lightning is flashing and rain is soaking east Mesa near Power and Brown roads Thursday night, July 20, 2017. Wendy Killeen/azcentral.com
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A peach-faced lovebird rides out a monsoon windstorm in a mesquite tree in Phoenix on July 14, 2017. Rob Schumacher/azcentral.com
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Images from the storm on July 14, 2017.
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An approaching monsoon storm near Surprise and Waddell kicks up a lot of dust on July 14, 2017. April Morganroth/azcentral.com
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Azcentral.com photographer Rob Schumacher shot this beautiful time-lapse video of monsoon storm thunderhead building over Carefree.
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Azcentral.com photographer David Kadlubowski shot this beautiful time-lapse video of a monsoon storm in Phoenix.
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A tree that fell over during a storm on July 10, 2017, is disposed of in Gold Canyon. Loren Townsley/azcentral.com
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A dust storm moves across the East Valley during a monsoon storm July 10, 2017.
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A microburst drops some rain near Waddell on July 10, 2017.
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Meteorologists’ video of storm clouds as they form and evaporate and reform and evaporate over Mount Lemmon on Aug. 17, 2006. Video shot by Joseph Zehnder; Weldon B. Johnson/azcentral.com
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Newspaper stands are knocked over as a thunderstorm makes it’s way through Phoenix.
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Wind and rain start to pick up in Northwest Valley.
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Phoenix Zoo cleans up after monsoon damage hits
APS hurries to repair downed power poles on Shea Boulevard
Power lines down on Shea Boulevard from massive storm
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Rains blow manhole covers at Sky Harbor
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Driver gets stuck on flooded street
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Pouring rain at Power and Brown roads in east Mesa July 20, 2017
Riding out a monsoon windstorm in Phoenix
Images from Friday’s Phoenix-area storm
Monsoon storm approaches in far West Valley
Time-lapse of monsoon storm thunderhead building over Carefree
Time-lapse view of monsoon storm from Broadway curve in Phoenix
Storm downs tree in Gold Canyon
Watch a dust storm move across the East Valley
Monsoon rains hit far West Valley
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Downtown Phoenix, July 15, 2017
Surprise/Waddell monsoon storm
A Phoenix shelter for homeless families was damaged by floodwaters during Thursday night’s storm and is working to restore a dozen rooms and a broken elevator.
UMOM New Day Centers on 3333 E. Van Buren St., which provides a temporary stay for homeless families, is seeking the public’s assistance to help pay for repairs.
The strong storm flooded 12 of the facility’s 150 family rooms and caused the only elevator in one of its three-story buildings to stop working, said Alex Scoville, communications coordinator.
“No one was hurt, thank goodness,” she said.
A day after the storm passed, those damaged rooms still were filled with trash, mold and damp clothes.
The storm also caused several trees on the property to fall, watered-out a staff office and damaged several staff vehicles.
But it didn’t hurt any families and none was displaced, Scoville said.
Families forced to wait
The day centers had exactly 12 other rooms vacant, so families whose rooms were flooded were able to move in, she said. But that caused 12 families who were on top of a waiting list to remain homeless until the rooms get recovered, she said.
Scoville said restoring the damage as quickly as possible is crucial for the day centers, as “dozens and dozens” of homeless families are waiting to move in.
Most of the water inside and outside of the day centers had been drained by Friday evening, but a lot of cleanup was left to do, Scoville said.
Water flooded a mechanical room that operates the elevator, causing it to malfunction.
Repairs to the elevator, along with the cleaning, will cost “tens of thousands of dollars,” Scoville said.
A haven for homeless families
UMOM New Day Centers has been providing temporarily housing for more than 170 homeless families in the Valley since 1964. It describes itself as Arizona’s largest shelter for homeless families.
Scoville said a family in the emergency housing program may stay up to four months and a family in the transitional housing program may stay up to two years.
Those who want to help the facility can go to umom.thankyou4caring.org/donate to donate.
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