Darren Kellner’s plans for Friday night were shattered after heavy rains forced him to fight flooding the basement with a vacuum cleaner in the store.
“We went from the winter season to the storm season,” says Kellner.
“It smells, it’s soaked, our fans are walking, the vacuum cleaner in the store was last night, it’s just a mess.”
He says that in 15 minutes the road in front of his house in the St. James neighborhood was completely engulfed in water. Then he crawled about halfway through his grass.
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But his basement suffered a blow, as did many of his neighbors’ basements.
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“I heard everything last night: ‘I have water in my basement, I have water up to here’ and who will take care of that now?”
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The city of Winnipeg says it has received 17 basement flood reports and another 105 flood and street flood reports.
Environment Canada says heavy rainfall on Friday is considered a form of flash flooding.
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“Precipitation of 50 millimeters or more in this hour can really lead to this localized flood on land, and drainage systems just can’t handle the intensity of the rainfall,” said Jesse Wagar, a meteorologist at Environment Canada.
“It just depends on which neighborhood it is in and what the drainage systems are, the sewer systems,” she said. “The rainfall norms of this slow-moving system in the area have really led to significant rainfall.”
Thunderstorms and rains are expected again on Saturday, but it does not expect the same level of decline.
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