Mystery Picture 091013

The mystery is the story behind the picture. Here is the info I have about it, using my fancy pants file naming method:

750600.JUN 75 P 7 (32).Susan & Ellen - 'Stuff' from basement during the flood.jpg

The picture doesn't show too much. Even at a low resolution it is clearly (Ha!) unfocused.

What caused the flood? Who discovered it? Was anything damaged? Have there been other floods?

BTW, this picture is from the slide in the earlier dirty slide post; you can sort of see the mattress in the earlier pictures.

UPDATE

Ellen provides the backstory in the comments.

"Our basement got flooded more than once, but I remember one time when the spring rains made the Provo River rise until it overflowed just upstream from the house. Water poured across the fields, across the parking lot at the Lutheran Church, across the road and right down into our basement. We scrambled to haul everything upstairs and outside. Dad got a sump pump to try to pump out the water and sprinkle it across the yard outside. I think that is what the waterspouts in the foreground are. If you notice, there are lilacs in bloom on the bushes in the background. That would make this springtime so it would fit the story. I'm sure that Mom and Dad were stressed out but I remember getting inner-tubes and having a good time paddling from room to room until the water was gone."

Thanks, Ellen! I've never heard of indoor tubing before.