UW-Madison senior Anil Bhatoya was working on his computer near a window in his room on the lower level of Park Terrace West when Thursday’s deluge of rain hit the area around North Randall Avenue.
“I saw the street flooding,” Bhatoya said. “Ten or 15 minutes later, when I looked up, the water was past the window. Then it started gushing in.”
In another 10 or 15 minutes, the floodwater, which had also begun pouring in through a back door of the apartment building at 45 N. Randall, covered the floor of his room.