“It’s washing out roads, it’s pulling fields in, the water’s moving quite fast,” she said. “We got a lot really fast, so nothing can keep up.”
The flooding is so bad, Tuchscherer said the sewer is beginning to back up into people’s basements.
The Town of Kipling issued a notice for residents to restrict water and sewer use as much as possible on Monday morning.
Mayor Pat Jackson said it was to early to determine a damage estimate, but she said the community would likely fill out an application for emergency flooding support.
“I’m seeing grass that I think grew six inches last night,” she said, about the rainfall.
The mayor took 980 CJME’s call while trying to pump water out of her own basement.
Town workers are focusing their efforts into draining areas on the east side of down, Jackson said, where one business near the road is three-quarters underwater.
Jackson said there was so much rain, water ran over the top of Highway 48 and covered Main Street for a period of time.
The mayor said she’s worried about weather warnings forecasting more rain.
“I’ve often said this: Mother Nature is off her meds, and so we don’t know what to expect,” she said. “We just have to manage what happens.”
