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Jessica Loos' basement flooded with 14 inches of rainwater around 2 a.m. one night

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Hearing noises at 2 a.m. is usually a bad sign — especially during a storm.

Jessica Loos was having trouble sleeping when she heard something crash in her basement. By the time she got down there, there were already 2 inches of water covering the floor, knocking things over.

“I ran to get my husband out of bed, and we immediately started moving everything that we could out of the basement," Loos, 26, tells PEOPLE. "The water was coming in so fast that it got up to 14 inches in no time. Water was pooling outside our house, and there's nowhere f

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