Several businesses thrashed by flooding in East Central Fresno

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Local agencies were faced with a bedewed and windy Christmas Eve Wednesday, arsenic calls came rushing in.

From downed trees to flooded roadways, it was each hands connected deck.

One aboriginal greeting telephone was for a monolithic flood successful East Central Fresno.

Several concern owners connected Ashlan and Willow woke up to their worst nightmare.

"I amusement up to the shop, I'm virtually covered up to my ankles successful water," said Hector Arenas, 1 of the owners of Diamond Pressure Barber Supply.

His was 1 of 10 businesses thrashed by the flood.

The aggravated rainfall became excessively overmuch for the drainage system, forcing cleanup crews to chopped unfastened h2o pipes.

"The floors, we conscionable got them installed, successful the full barbershop and successful the backmost shop, our tvs, our signs, the ceiling, each that is each destroyed, our speakers," Arenas said.

With each damages and cancellations considered, Arenas estimates a nonaccomplishment of astir $20,000.

This video, shared by co-owner Daniel Cabrera, shows him stepping implicit pieces of the ceiling conscionable to get into the soaking bedewed barbershop.

"I couldn't judge it, you know? The full extortion was caved in, determination was h2o everywhere, and I conscionable saw chaos," Cabrera said.

As cleanup crews hauled ruined furnishings and equipment, Cabrera told america it couldn't travel astatine a worse time.

"Some radical are truly reliant connected a haircut to consciousness well, to look well, connected their Christmas Day, truthful it's a small upsetting that we're not capable to supply that for them," Cabrera said.

With much bedewed upwind connected the way, metropolis officials cognize they're enactment is acold from over.

"Planning to person crews retired working, passim contiguous adjacent into Christmas tomorrow, moving the tempest ans to marque definite everything is safe," said City of Fresno adjunct manager of nationalist works, Brian Russell.

Despite the setback, the owners accidental there's been nary shortage of support.

"I really got reached retired to by a batch of antithetic barbershops, and not lone barbershops but tattoo shops and conscionable antithetic places that were offering america a chair...It's that Christmas spirit, we're each banding together, it takes a tribe, you know?" Cabrera said.