Flash Flooding Hits Neighborhood, Causes Major Road Closures Across OKC Metro

Early morning storms on Sunday left many waking up to flash flooding at their doorstep, including at the Meridian Sooner mobile home park. But residents say they're no stranger to this flooding.

"On one side it's elevated like way above the rest of the street and it just slopes down as you go further back," Kayla Wainscott, a long-time resident of Meridian Sooner, said. "It's been pretty nice but we have some issues with flooding."

Wainscott says it doesn't take much for the water to rise up.

"No, no it just takes a couple hours," she said. "And if you want to go anywhere you're stuck there's no way out except across the bridge."

The bridge that leads to the downhill side of the complex is prone to flooding, and blocks in the area of the neighborhood where the flooding is worst

"If there's an emergency or something they can't go anywhere," Wainscott said.

Sunday morning, one car stalled out in the high waters trying to cross the bridge.

"Yeah they had just sent a message out to the community not to drive over the bridge because they didn't want people to get stuck," Wainscott said.

There were similar sights across the greater metro.

Slaughterville and Noble, where the rainfall was heaviest, saw major flooding on some roads.

Emergency crews were busy putting out signs and closing roads to remind folks to avoid high water.

In the metro, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol updated many major road closures on their social media accounts Sunday morning due to flooding.

Wainscott says any time this kind of rainfall happens, she knows Meridian Sooner will flood too.

"It just floods the whole neighborhood," she said.

"For now, the rain has stopped and the water level is down, but residents here say it's only a matter of time before the rain comes again.