The village of Vanguard, Saskatchewan, is still coming to terms with what what Environment Canada now calls the most intense rain storm ever on the prairies.

In just over 8 hours a year ago, nearly 14 inches of rain (345 millimetres) fell on Vanguard. That's more than 4 times the amount that flooded Regina basements and underpasses on the weekend.

The Vanguard storm dumped 2/3rds of a billion cubic meters of water.

Mayor Dorothy Saunderson says even this spring people were finding more damage from last summers deluge. "People found after the frost came out of the ground this spring with the excess moisture in the soil and the freezing and thawing, that their basements are giving way and they didn't realize they had any problems last fall", says Saunderson.

Saunderson says repairs to the curling rink are just now finished and farmers are still finding sink-holes on their land.

She says the real long term impact is emotional. Saunderson says last Sunday's rain made most people extremely nervous.

Environment Canada says the chances of another storm as intense as last July's hitting the area is about one in every fifty years.