AMHERST, N.S. – Flooding in Amherst, N.S., has left a seniors’ complex damaged and its residents displaced.
Heavy rains caused the nearby Dickey Brook to crest its banks late Sunday night.
Fire Chief Greg Jones says the department responded to a call at around 3 a.m. today and found water flowing into a rear exit of Centennial Villa, which includes a retirement home and a residential care facility.
The water filled the basement of the building, forcing the power to be shut off and the building to be evacuated, affecting 84 residents.
Although the floodwaters had receded from the rest of the town by 10 a.m., Jones says it is up to the complex’s property owner to determine when the residents can return.
Jones says he has never experienced such severe flooding in the town.
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