Businesses cleaning up after Pullman flooding

Last Tuesday, April 19, Jessica Wolfe, owner of Fusions Salon and Spa on North Grand Avenue in Pullman, was making her usual drive to work from Viola, Idaho, not knowing the day would not be anything she may have expected.

“I thought it was a good day,” she said.

When she arrived at work, though, she found that her business had been flooded as the result of a city water main rupture up the street near Dissmore's. The rupture drained more than a million gallons of water from two water towers on Military Hill and College Hill and flooded all of the businesses in Tractor Town Square.

“When I walk...