Dundas also hit by flooded basements in torrential rains [Video]

Residents watched storm grates explode with water on Delsey Street in Dundas Monday.

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Mike Horner is here to tell you Hamilton did not escape unscathed from the storm bursts that infamously submerged parts of Burlington, London and Toronto this week.

The Dundas resident spent Wednesday salvaging keepsakes from the “almost total loss” of his Lowe Court finished basement, which flooded — alongside many of his neighbours’ homes — during a short, but intense rainstorm two days earlier.

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Rod Pieon stacked sandbags to protect his neighbour’s home from rising waters Tuesday night that flooded parts of Delsey Street in Dundas twice over two days.

Matthew Van Dongen The Hamilton Spectator

Residents watched storm grates explode with water on Delsey Street in Dundas Monday.

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Monday’s flooding on Lowe Court in Dundas.

Rob Taylor