It could be several months before the public cafeteria reopens at Kearney’s Good Samaritan Hospital in the U.S. state of Nebraska, which was inundated by floodwater that overwhelmed the city’s storm sewer system over the weekend.
Around four inches of rain on Friday night turned into a torrent that funnelled down into the lowest level of the hospital early Saturday morning, damaging the kitchen, cafe and other areas.
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Surveillance video uploaded online by the hospital showed the moment floodwaters pushed through cafeteria’s doors, damaging tables and chairs inside.
No patients or employees were injured.
Hospital spokeswoman Marsha Wilkerson said on Wednesday that it was very hard to see the cafeteria being “destroyed by mother nature.”
Full food service to patients was restored by Saturday evening, thanks to a temporary kitchen that’s been set up and aid from other Catholic Health Initiative facilities.
The hospital resumed its full schedule of surgeries on Monday.
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