A state of emergency has been declared in St. Catharines, Ont., after the city received significant flooding in the past week.

Mayor Mat Siscoe issued the declaration on Monday after a pair of storms brought more than 140 millimetres of rain early last week and then again on Sunday.

“This wasn’t one isolated weather event; this was a series of three very extraordinary rainfall events that happened in our community,” Siscoe said in a news conference Tuesday.

The first storm hit the city on July 21, then another poured rain down on St. Catharines from July 27 to 28. The city received a brief reprieve before more rain fell on Sunday.

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