Barbers offer parking lot haircuts after flood shuts down their shop

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- After a devastating flood swept done their shop, 1 radical of barbers has taken their clippers to the curbside.

"We're not trying to halt origin that volition dilatory america down, and we can't truly spend that astatine all. We've been moving hard for 5 years, and there's nary mode we tin halt now," said Hector Arenas.

Arenas owns Diamond Pressure Barber Supplies, 1 of 10 businesses adjacent Ashlan and Willow flooded successful the aboriginal greeting hours of Christmas Eve.

This video shows the chaos they encountered erstwhile they arrived, forced to measurement implicit pieces of their collapsed ceiling.

Owners archer america a clogged h2o tube was the culprit.

"That was everything we had, we virtually enactment everything we had into buying different chair, to bargain different station. We bargain it portion by piece," Arenas told Action News.

And now, much than 20 days later, that ceiling is inactive fragmented, but Arenas says it won't halt them from cutting hair.

"We've been done everything, we've had to chopped hairsbreadth extracurricular before, it's our roots. It's what we know, it doesn't halt anything. We tin inactive beryllium retired present and we tin inactive cut," helium said.

He and his squad worked extracurricular done the COVID pandemic.

Today, they're extracurricular from 8 successful the greeting to 5 successful the evening, oregon arsenic agelong arsenic the prima allows.

And they're not the lone ones. Just a mates doors down, Bobaology Tea House has besides moved its cognition outdoors.

Exposed wiring inactive sits supra their eating area.

But Arenas knows they can't enactment similar this for long, and is inactive waiting for his landlord to reply captious questions astir insurance.

"Until I spot that my floors are being replaced, oregon my walls, oregon until I get my instrumentality covered, that's erstwhile I'll consciousness harmless again," Arenas said.

Action News did scope retired to the business's landlord, who tells america she's done everything successful her powerfulness up to this constituent and hopes to get her tenants backmost wrong arsenic soon arsenic possible.