Teulon

Flooding after downpour damaged 800 homes in Teulon last week, mayor says

Flooding after downpour damaged 800 homes in Teulon last week, mayor says

Residents of Teulon, Man., are cleaning up and filing insurance claims six days after the Interlake town was inundated with water. Last week, rain came down in sheets in the town 60 kilometres north of Winnipeg, damaging roughly 800 homes — about 75 per cent of the community's residences, Mayor Anna Pazdzierski said. "There was one home, the water was halfway up the basement windows and just flowing in. The same level outside was the level inside," she said on Monday. "It just filled up everything it could fill up."

Basements, backyards flooded after thunderstorms soak southern Manitoba

Basements, backyards flooded after thunderstorms soak southern Manitoba

The rain kept coming down as Mike Ledarney was already pumping water out of his basement in Teulon on Tuesday. The resident of the Manitoba town, about 60 kilometres north of Winnipeg, said he came home early from work after his sister called to break the news that his basement was flooding. By the time he got back, his dad had a sump pump running, but there was already about 30 centimetres of water in the basement. "It's obviously a lot of stress … having to deal with that, and not knowing always in certainty … what's going to happen next," Ledarney said outside his house later in the day.