by Charles Levine
Written by Brittany Morehouse
9NEWS NOW & wusa9.com
SILVER SPRING, Md. (WUSA) - Five days after storms flooded their basement with nearly six feet of water, Jacob and Jean Rudel are feeling hopeless as they try to pick up the pieces.
"You'd never expect something like this to happen in your lifetime. It was catastrophic," said Jacob, a father of one 17-month old with another child on the way.