SUSSEX CORNER, N.B. – Residents across New Brunswick spent Thursday cleaning out their flooded basements.
Shelley Hachey of Moncton woke up this morning and opened her shed door. What she saw made her heart sink and she started to cry.
“I opened up the door and water and oil just came out of the shed and I probably lost my bike,” she said.
The 500CC Honda motorcycle she’d been waiting more than 30 years to buy sat in three feet of water.
“You know nobody got hurt so I will suck it up,” she said.
Hachey’s daughter, Jennifer, lives in the basement of their rented home in Westbrook Circle. She said water came so quick, they had a hard time keeping it under control.
“We just couldn’t believe how has it was coming in,” she said. “We had three sump pumps going and it wasn’t holding off.”
She managed to get most of her belonging upstairs, but the basement is in ruins.
In Sussex Corner, Beth Debow spent the entire night pumping out her basement.
“I think it was about midnight it started coming in and it just got worse and worse,” she said.
Sussex residents said flood water receded Thursday morning. But overnight, there was a much as three or four feet of water spilling out over the roadways.
With at least two feet of water in her basement, DeBow said she’ll have to replace her hot water heater for the second time this year.
Her home was hit with flooding in April, when Sussex Corner saw some of the worst flooding the community had seen in years.
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“Another flood you get tired of it but what can you do,” she said.
Her neighbour Bernie Semark said Trout Creek, a stream that runs along their properties needs to be dredged.
This is the third time he’s been flooded this year.
“I am almost to the point that I want to just walk away and leave it,” he said.
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