For the second time in nearly a year, Steinbach and Area Animal Rescue has flooded. Steinbach was hit with more than 100 millimetres of rain overnight, and Vice President Graham Pollock says they now have about six feet of water in their basement. "I think it's worse than it was last time this happened, which was almost a year ago, I think to the week," says Pollock. The storm he is referring to happened on September 17, 2024, when more than 136 millimetres of rain fell in Steinbach. Pollock says they are just in the process of moving the animals into foster homes. He notes they have 22 cats and kittens in various rooms in the building. Pollock says the calls to fosters were made at about four o'clock Friday morning. As for the supplies in the basement, Pollock says he is uncertain whether any of them can be salvaged. "All the food and all the storage and everything else has got water all around it," he says. Though their basement is flooded, Pollock says there is not much they can do until the water around their building recedes. "Right now, the water is just kind of surrounding the building like an island almost," he explains. "So, to pump, you are pumping into the water that's already lying there, just going to come back. You gotta wait until you have a little bit of area that you can start pumping to. And so, we're kind of waiting for that to happen." Pollock says thanks to The Rental House being open for them at 3 am, he has a generator, a couple of gas pumps, and about 100 feet of hose. "I'm probably going to need some help to settle in, once we get pumping," he says. "It's a matter of waiting right now until we can pump. The water right now has got nowhere to go." Pollock calls the whole ordeal frustrating. He notes they moved into their new building in June of 2024 after working so hard to raise the necessary funds. Pollock says three months later, their basement flooded, and they had to find $25,000 to pay their deductible for insurance. "Now we've got to do the same again, a year later, another $25,000," he says. Pollock questions how a not-for-profit organization can recover from this. He says right now he feels like building a swale around his building to end their flood woes once and for all. With files from Corny Rempel