REGINA – One hundred millimeters of rain and 100 kilometer per hour winds can be a destructive combination.
Regina residents woke up to the aftermath of two days of extreme weather Wednesday. For some the damage was minimal, for others a burden.
From damaged houses, downed power lines and streets littered with snapped branches, the focus turned to the cleanup.
“I’ve got right now, three or four days of work right here,” said Kent Topliss, owner of Woodland Tree Service. “This isn’t too bad, it’s a lot less then what happened last year.“
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Some trees in Victoria Park stood strong for 80 years, but were no match for the fierce winds. They’ve now been reduced to firewood.
Meantime, 22 residents were evacuated from the Cancer Patient Lodge after a metre of water flooded the basement.
The centre was without power for over 36 hours, and they weren’t the only ones.
SaskPower has received more than 16,000 calls from across southern Saskatchewan.
“Right now the priority is to fix the critical areas,” explained Jonathan Tremblay with SaskPower. “That’s anyone who doesn’t have power, or any downed power lines that can become a safety issue. Then we’ll do the hard work of surveying the entire grid in the south (for damages).”
On an average day the City of Regina pumps 70 million litres of water to the waste water treatment plant, but on Tuesday alone it pumped 250 million litres of water.
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