'It was coming in so fast': Teulon residents working to cleanup flood damage
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Days later, large parts of Teulon, Man. are still underwater after a severe thunderstorm pelted the town with water.
Days later, large parts of Teulon, Man. are still underwater after a severe thunderstorm pelted the town with water.
Brooke Allison, who lives in Teulon, said her property flooded in a matter of a few hours.
"I woke up at 6:30, and in the middle [of the backyard], there was starting to be a puddle, and then I came home like around noon, and it was like this, so not very long at all," she recalled.
The water has since started to go down on Allison's property, but she still has no running septic services.
Anna Pazdzierski, the town's mayor, estimates around 75 per cent of homes in Teulon were damaged by the flooding.
"It was coming in so fast that nothing was keeping up. People with two pumps running couldn't keep the water out of their basements," said Pazdzierski.
It's a problem long-time resident and former Teulon mayor Ted Hodgkinson says could have been lessened if the municipality had worked to slow down the flow of the provincial drainage ditch that runs through town.
