Fed-up business owner Carol Williamson told how she and husband Ivano have been counting the cost of another Whitesands flood.
They own the popular chip shop Ivano’s on the waterfront which was among businesses badly hit during last week’s appalling weather.
Carol said: “I don’t even want to think how much this will cost us.
“It will be at least thousands of pounds, maybe tens of thousands with the amount of food wasted and damage to the place.
“We have a downstairs preparation place and storage area and that was under so much water that when I went to check I was up to my waist in water. It was awful.
“It just happened so fast and was so bad and all the other businesses on the waterfront are saying the same.
“We don’t get insurance because of how regular the Whitesands is flooded so it is just a mess.”
She and Ivano, plus staff, managed to haul bottles and cans of soft drinks upstairs to safety, but they lost food plus trade because the preparation area had been devastated.
Council leader Elaine Murray, was at the scene on Thursday to see the situation and remarked that it was one of the worst floods in recent years due to the rapid nature of the streets being engulfed.
Carol blasted the lack of information on the day the River Nith burst its banks and complained that there was nowhere to find out details of when the high tide was going to strike during the floods.
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