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Clean up continues in South Boston after flood

In the South Boston area, residents are still cleaning up the water damage after last week's rain.

"We've been here for a few hours, most of the waters all gone, the water that's in here now is water we're using to get the mud out," says Ashley Stevens at Custom Image in South Boston.

They're whisking away the last of the flooding, which was so high people could see it through the front door.

"Inside it was about a foot, we put a ruler up, and it was about a foot," says Steven.

The business is dependent on its technology, so luckily nothing was damaged.

"We probably did a week's worth of business that evening," says Dana Smith, owner of the salon Tangles.

Smith says that the heavy flooding washed in waves of clients.

"It's like, 'Oh I want a haircut, it's going to flood, is it going to be bad?' And I was like, 'Oh! It's going to be horrible,' and we just kind of play off of it, and people tanned and we cut hair and did nails and they bought clothes," says Smith.

Smith says people are curious by nature. "They didn't want to come in and ask too many questions without getting something done so they'd have a service done."

In terms of floods, you could consider her an old pro. She was there for the flood in 1996, and her parents talk about a flood in the 1970s. She says she thinks people expected her to be nervous or worried about the floods.

"I think they want to see you nervous or see if it's real bad or how upset you're going to be, but ...[when] you're calm, it's just business as usual, just a little better," says Smith.

Consider it a silver lining to every cloudy day.

"You can't get sad about it. You just make the best of it and deal with it," says Smith.