{"id":281110,"date":"2026-09-07T23:30:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T23:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/281110\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T23:30:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T23:30:40","slug":"small-businesses-across-pittsburgh-area-still-feeling-effects-of-recent-severe-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/281110\/","title":{"rendered":"Small businesses across Pittsburgh area still feeling effects of recent severe weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/more-storms-possible-on-thursday-in-the-pittsburgh-area-along-with-high-heat-first-alert-weather\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">severe weather<\/a>\u00a0knocked out power for days for some. Many small businesses are still feeling the impact as of Labor Day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The hot water tanks just got ripped off the wall,&#8221; said Gwen Moreland, who owns Morelands at Waterworks.<\/p>\n<p>Photos shared with KDKA-TV show the extensive damage done inside the basement at Morelands at Waterworks after water rose from the creek below and blew off the basement door.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/eb5b68bf62121d142d07b662e8f82c28.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"eb5b68bf62121d142d07b662e8f82c28.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Photos shared with KDKA-TV show the extensive damage done inside the basement at Morelands at Waterworks. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                Photo Credit: Provided<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was eight feet, and there was nothing anybody could do. The fire department couldn&#8217;t even begin to help us start pumping until 1:45 in the morning, and it started at 8 p.m.,&#8221; Moreland said. &#8220;The creek is at least 10 feet down from the building; it just blew that door off, and the water came flying in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Water was just four steps away from the main door. The water line in the room of the hot water tanks is eight feet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am so incredibly proud of my staff. They just went into high gear, and they were trying to save everything they could,&#8221; Moreland said.<\/p>\n<p>Not far away in downtown Irwin, on Main Street, the owner of Colonial Grille lost about $2,000 worth of food and had some minor water damage to some of his ceiling tiles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was fortunate enough to have a generator, but I could only run so much equipment at any given time, so I had to keep switching what I was running. Run that for five hours, unplug it and put something else in. So, it was a challenge,&#8221; owner Gary Santimyer said.<\/p>\n<p>Jen Wirsing, owner of &#8220;The Green Berry,&#8221; lost some inventory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t sleep for two nights because I kept coming down here in the middle of the night checking on things, so it was a very stressful situation,&#8221; Wirsing said.<\/p>\n<p>As for Gwen Moreland, she and her husband don&#8217;t have flood insurance. The damage is between $125,000 and $150,000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s gone. Literally, everything [in the basement] is so rotted. It starts tomorrow night; they will be demoing the rest of it,&#8221; Moreland said.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately for Morelands at Waterworks, the water didn&#8217;t come upstairs, which has allowed them to stay open.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week&#8217;s severe weather\u00a0knocked out power for days for some. 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