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 said the department responded to a call at around 3 a.m. Monday 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 said it is up to the complex's property owner to determine when the residents can return. The water would first have to be removed from the still-flooded basement, he added.
Jones said he has never experienced such severe flooding in the town.
"I grew up in Amherst, and I can't remember in the last 30, 35 years it ever being like this," he said.