Around five homes and a pub in a Gwent town flooded yesterday after heavy rain
Firefighters spent more than seven hours pumping water from Station Road in Abergavenny.
Residents say this is the third time the street has flooded in the last five months, and believe it was caused by a damaged culvert.
Station officer Richard Hassett said firefighters had also cleared a blocked drain.
"At its deepest the water was about 10 inches," he said.
The water was about four foot deep in resident Keith Hopkinson's cellar and garden, and he estimates the damage to be around £1,000.
"The boiler's shot and the fridge freezer is floating around the basement," said Mr Hopkinson, a construction consultant, whose wife and two children are now staying with friends.
"The water's started to seep into the kitchen. I've lived here for three-and-a-half years and never known anything like this."
He said a privately-owned culvert which runs behind the houses on Station Road could be blocked or damaged. Residents are planning to split the cost of calling out drainage experts.
One fire engine was called out at 11.50am yesterday, and another at 4.10pm.
The Great Western Hotel pub on Station Road remained open, even though its cellar, which is used as a lounge for back packers, flooded.
Landlord Gary Hesp said the street flooded twice in November, and says one resident had only just finished decorating his home after the last incident.
Residents had to barricade a gushing drain at the top of the sloping street with sandbags.
Station officer Hassett said the electricity board was due to turn the power off in the homes affected.
Firs published on the South Wales Argus website|