Remember that massive storm earlier this summer?

A tremendous deluge of water just came so quickly.

A seemingly unending a storm that continued.

Disappointed fans were instructed to seek shelter.

Viaducts on the west side filled with water and stranded drivers.

The big NASCAR race was canceled that day.

And at least 19,000 people reported flooded basements in Chicago, Cicero, and Berwyn.

Like, it was up to my knees in the alley.

That's Palsar Lee in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

Trash cans were floating. their cardboard boxes floating. After the rain stopped, he went out to assess the damage.

Like, there was trash everywhere, so my daughter and I cleaned it up.

And then I realized, oh, this is probably dirty water, so I'd send my daughter back in.

But I'm pretty sure there's something going on because every time there's a lot of rainfall,

it freaks of sewage and trash everywhere.

After the flood, I was like, finally, you know, we can go back to life.

But then I go and run and it's still like super stinky. And I can't

run away from it because it's throughout the whole jog.

Concerned about the health effects of the smelly air and water and what the future may hold for

Chicago, Pulsar wrote to Curious City with a question. Can you help explain this? Is Chicago's sewage system incapable of handling heavy rains?

Pulsar wasn't the only one wondering about this. With climate change bringing more frequent

and powerful storms in recent years, we've gotten a lot of questions about what that means for Chicago in the region.

Like, what's really going on when city sewers back up into basements?

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