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Days after Thanksgiving in 2019, Mark Prescott and his mother, Barbara, were forced to evacuate their house after a raw sewage flood made it uninhabitable.
Their home was one of 127 in South Ozone Park, Queens, to be immersed in rivers of raw sewage. The Prescotts moved into a motel, while other families slept in cars. And some lost most of their possessions.
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