ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. - After a bone-dry October, November has certainly been a wet month. Just two weeks ago, many areas saw flash flooding. The Trainwreck Saloon was one of the many businesses impacted.

Bommarito Automotive Group SkyFOX showed the flash flooding on the morning of Nov. 5 as a second round of heavy rain caused Deer Creek to rise out of its banks.

Some of the hard-hit areas included Brentwood, Rock Hill, and nearby Maplewood.

Video footage shows the rushing, rising water approach a shopping center in Maplewood.

Down the street in Rock Hill, the Trainwreck Saloon had major flooding. Owner George Hansford got the dreaded call in the very early morning hours that Tuesday.

“I came right on down here. I was here by 4 (a.m.)...and the water was up, already in the building. I couldn’t get into the building until it started receding—and that was about 6 o’clock. When I got in here, was still over a foot high. It was 6 feet in the basement and another 18 inches in the restaurant,” Hansford said.

After the bar flooded back in July 2022, Hansford took some steps to help alleviate a lot of the cleanup if it were to flood again. Although this flood was actually higher, he only had to close the bar completely for three days thanks to great employees and friends.

“They come down here and pitch in and start ripping things out and hosing things down. Power washing, a lot of power washing and a lot of cleanup, a lot of sanitizing. So that was the good part of all of it,” he said.

And now, about two weeks later, you may not be able to tell what this building had just gone through. But Hansford says he still has more to go to get everything operational.

“The age of this building and stuff like that, you know, I really care about it. I mean, it has a soul, not really to see it go through and stuff, you know, it's trauma. Just like for us, it's trauma. It's trauma to the building; it's trauma to me,” Hansford said.

The building is over 130 years old, dating back to 1890, and is the oldest bar in St. Louis County.