Kansas Chabad House Flooded; 2nd Time in Month

Tuesday marks the second time that Rabbi Mendy Wineberg has had to deal with flooding at the Chabad House Center of Kansas City. “Whatever we were able to salvage last time is now gone,” he said.

Rabbi Wineberg says the last mess was just cleaned up. But this time, nearly everything will need to be replaced. “Books, toys, playsets, cars, trucks, cubbies …  just literally anything and everything for preschool,” he said.

“Pretty much everything within 2 feet of the floor was up and moving around floating — you got that paint bucket that’s upside down — this was all stuff that we were doing right now to get the place back in shape,” Rabbi Wineberg told local media.

The preschool is now moving to a nearby synagogue so their start date won’t have to be pushed back. Wineberg estimates it will cost about $500,000 and believes it will be a month and a half before they are back up and running.

“We have never flooded here before in the 29 years that we’ve been here so we felt like we were kind of safe. We came back in the morning we saw the water had hit the walls and we realize that we would have to start over,” Rabbi Wineberg said.

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