Businesses in Kansas City, Kansas working to recover after recent flooding

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KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Some Wyandotte County businesses continue to recover after Wednesday night's thunderstorm.
As much as 10 inches of rain fell on Kansas City, Kansas, causing flash flooding in multiple locations.
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Leaders at the Humane Society of Greater Kansas City say they have a $30,000 rebuild ahead of them.
Heavy rain from Wednesday night's storm delivers at least two inches of water that got inside the group's building off N. 55th Street and Parallel Parkway. Flash flood water ruined floor tiles and drywall inside the shelter's cat center.
'It's quite a thing to not have this in the community,' Sydney Mollentine, the Humane Society of Greater Kansas City's CEO, said.
Mollentine and her staff relocated all the animals who are usually in the building's cat area, but thousands of dollars in cat litter and food are ruined. The humane society's center for dogs remains open and undamaged.
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'Right now, we are in survival mode. We are trying to do the best we can with what we have, but we also know this is a really big financial burden that prevents us from continuing the life-saving work that we need to do,' Mollentine said on Friday.
'Inch by inch, life's a cinch. Yard by yard, life is hard. A little bit will go a long way here. They're kind and gracious and they run this very well,' Jamie Smith-Hennessey, a humane society patron encouraging others to contribute, said.
Meanwhile, the staff at Big Dawg's Bar in KCK vow to reopen soon. For the time being, a small crew of employees and friends are working to clean up a big mess, after Wednesday night's storm nearly ruined the popular bar.
'It is bad. Everything is ruined, basically,' Karen Lawrentiew, the bar's friendly bartender, said.
On Friday, employees used power tools and shovels to remove the barroom's floors, which are still soaked. The Restaurant KC, which sits next door on Kaw Drive, has a sign on its door indicating its also closed until further notice.
'It's devastating. I don't have a job to come to right now. It's my income. Not just mine, but there's a group of us,' Lawrentiew lamented.
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'All of the floor's got to come up. We're cutting all the floor up right now and getting it loaded into a truck,' William Ogden, one of the cleanup crew workers, said. 'It's kind of a big job.'
This makeshift cleanup crew at Big Dawg's Bar is hopeful someone will donate their time and resources to help as they recover.
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