CHANHASSEN, Minn. — Allison and Dan Kelly have been living with a nightmare since the morning of Aug. 9. Their beautiful Chanhassen home which they have lived in for 9 years, is now unlivable after a water main break sent hundreds of thousands of gallons of water and mud surging into their basement.

“I looked out the window on our deck to find just a never-ending stream of water pouring down the hill,” Dan recalled. The water flowed nonstop for two hours before the city shut it off. The perimeter of their home was turned into a moat, and their basement was turned into a swimming pool.

Water gushed through the basement windows, filling the lower level with five feet of water. Furniture floated, and mud covered everything. Their daughter, just days away from returning to college for her se

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