Picture sources
Who took the photos on this site, the licence each one is used under, and which pictures were made for the site.
Most pictures on this site are real photographs shared under free licences. Each one is listed below with the photographer or author, the licence, and a link back to where it was published. Where a brand logo showed up in a photo, we blurred it, since the picture is there to show a kind of equipment and not to promote a maker.
Some scenes simply weren't available as free photos, such as a particular corner of a basement or a pipe in a particular state. Those pictures carry the label "AI-generated picture" on the page where they appear. They were made for this site to illustrate the answer, and they don't show any real home.
| Picture | By | Licence | Original | Changes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Looking down outside cellar stairs into a basement with muddy floodwater standing at the bottom after a flash flood | B137 | CC0 | original file | cropped to 3:2, resized |
| Gray-black speckles of mold spreading low across a damp white wall near the corner of a room | שי אבידן | CC BY-SA 4.0 | original file | cropped to 3:2, resized |
| Residents clearing mud and ruined belongings out of a flooded home onto the yard after a river flood | Michael Rieger | Public domain | original file | cropped to 3:2, resized |
| A hose pumping water out of a flooded basement and across the sidewalk into a city street | Alec Perkins from Hoboken, USA | CC BY 2.0 | original file | cropped to 3:2, resized |
| White plastic pipes running along the floor of a low crawlspace under a house, lit by a flashlight | TradeCrawlspaces | CC BY-SA 4.0 | original file | cropped to 3:2, resized |
| Plowed snow piled at a street corner in Bethesda, Maryland, on a cold January afternoon | G. Edward Johnson | CC BY 4.0 | original file | cropped to 3:2, resized |
| The round glass headquarters tower of WSSC Water in Laurel, Maryland | Jstuby at en.wikipedia | Public domain | original file | cropped to 3:2, resized |
| Volunteers wheeling a flood-damaged washing machine out of a house to the curb next to bags of debris | Andrea Booher | Public domain | original file | cropped to 3:2, resized; appliance label blurred |
| A stone wall and a buckled brick sidewalk with a storm drain cover on Main Street in Ellicott City, Maryland, after the July 2016 flood | Preservation Maryland | CC BY-SA 2.0 | original file | cropped to 3:2, resized |
| A pipefitter in a hard hat, safety glasses and work gloves working on a valve | USCapitol | Public domain | original file | cropped to 3:2, resized |
| A row of brick rowhouses with front porches along a wide street in Baltimore, cars parked at the curb | Baltimore Heritage from Baltimore, MD, USA | CC0 | original file | cropped to 3:2, resized |
| A tree-lined residential street in Takoma Park, Maryland, with older frame houses behind front lawns | Farragutful | CC BY-SA 3.0 | original file | cropped to 3:2, resized |
| An unfinished basement utility room with a washer, dryer, laundry sink, furnace and pipes running along the ceiling joists | Famartin | CC BY-SA 4.0 | original file | cropped to 3:2, resized |
| Looking down a basement stairway into a room flooded with brown water | OakleyOriginals | CC BY 2.0 | original file | cropped to 3:2, resized |
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28 other pictures on this site are labelled “AI-generated picture” where they appear.