Business owners continued to clean up on Friady, one day after heavy rainfall swept across parts of Waterloo Region.
At the Waterloo Region Museum, the creek in the Doon Heritage Village overflowed its banks.
Manager and curator Tom Reitz says, “All that rain came down Schneider Creek from downtown Kitchener, right through the south end of the city, right through our property.”
Reitz says the museum is fine but “it’s the roadways, the pathways, some of our wheelchair ramps that got washed out.”
Businesses in the Galt area of Cambridge were also hit hard by flooding.
Brenda Kemp, the store manager at Reid Candy and Nut Shop, says water was washing into the store’s entrance.
“It looked like waves at the beach,” says Kemp.
“The girls were at the front with shovels trying to keep the water from coming in and every time a car would go by then waves would just come up further and further into the store,” she says.
Walshee’s Sportsbar in Cambridge had water running down their entrance steps, forcing patrons and employees to go barefoot.
The Cambridge fire department says it responded to at least 15 calls for flooding assistance in the span of an hour and a half.
