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Less than 30 min­utes of heavy rain in Williamsville wreaked hav­oc on Kent Street res­i­dents yes­ter­day, as flood­wa­ters gushed in­to their homes.

Res­i­dents were seen bail­ing and sweep­ing wa­ter, as well as slush, from their prop­er­ties. One home­own­er, Ra­jin Samkaran, said, “Twen­ty-four, twen­ty-five min­utes of rain, and that was it, flood. My kitchen, liv­ing room, my bed­room, my whole yard. My dog even had to climb on top of the roof.”

Com­plain­ing that this was the third time he had been flood­ed this year, he lament­ed, “Every time we get a good show­er of rain, it floods.” Samkaran ex­plained that most of the wa­ter from the area flows in­to the drains on their street, which can­not han­dle the vol­ume. “I don’t think they can do any­thing about this again,” he said.