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Text Box: STORM WATER DAMAGE BESETS TOWN RESIDENCES Storm water flooding their homes was reported by a number of residents after several days of incessant downpour at the end of June. Clerk/treasurer Cathie Polak sent an email message to the 57 or so residents who have signed up for the town address list asking about flooded basements or other storm damage because Montgomery County was attempting to ascertain if it qualified for disaster status through the Maryland Emergency Management Agency. On lower Princeton Ave. Alexis Feringa reported that their living room, sunroom and laundry room were all leaking to a degree never experienced before. Further down the street, Jo Anne Murray wrote that their front basement was leaking heavily and the carpet had to be discarded. She doesn’t plan to replace it until the old original stone foundation is waterproofed. During one massive deluge, every single nail in their eight-year-old shingle roof leaked, something she had never seen in her 32 years as an architect. Debbie Lange and Peter Somerville reported their entire Wellesley Circle basement had flooded, up to a couple of inches at the highest point. It was caused by a sump pump that didn’t kick in. “The wall-to-wall carpeting became a giant sponge,” they wrote. They vacuumed out the water with a wet-