SALT LAKE CITY — Days after this last weekend’s historic rainfall, cleanup is still very much underway in Salt Lake City’s Westpointe Neighborhood.

On Wednesday evening, people were throwing out their damaged, soaked belongings, and were busy in their backyards trying to clean up the mud and water that was still left behind.

“My carpet’s drying out,” Westpointe resident David Durr said. “The pads are drying out.”

A street of the Westpointe Neighborhood was still soaked after Saturday’s downpour . A drainage ditch that ran behind Sir Philip Dr. overflowed.

“15 homes, 16 homes, that we know of that just had four feet of water in their basements,” Durr said.

He said the damage to his home doesn’t compare to his neighbors’.

Durr said most people in this neighborhood do not have flood i

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