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Streets and intersections in Saskatoon temporarily became rivers after a storm caused flash flooding across city Sunday evening.
Parts of the east side appeared to be most affected with reports of flooding in several neighbourhoods, including in Forest Grove where the water was deep enough for a garbage can to float on Spruce Drive, while others watched helplessly as water ran into their basements.
“Buckets and hoses from flooded basements after the downpour this evening,” Leah Bumphrey wrote to 650 CKOM from Rita Crescent in Sutherland.
Basements in Sutherland filled up with water following a heavy downpour in Saskatoon on July 20, 2025. Leah Bumphrey/Submitted.
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The city’s outdoor pools closed early due to the inclement weather and fallen tree branches briefly knocked power out to residents and businesses between Taylor and Eighth Street, where earlier their streets had backed up with water.
Double whammy. After heavy rain flooded 8th and Cumberland Sunday evening, the power has gone out. #yxe pic.twitter.com/QMprkVgVPk
— Brent Bosker (@brentbosker) July 21, 2025
A service alert from the city around 10 p.m. indicated that fallen trees were the cause of a power outage for Holliston and Haultain neighbourhoods. Tree limbs on power lines were also to blame for a second outage overnight in Forest Grove and Erindale.
