Hoogewind said there’s been 6.81 inches of rain in the month of May alone, which is 4.2 inches more than average for the city this time of year.

Carpet companies like Complete Carpet Care and Upholstery, 3511 Seaway Drive, in Lansing, have had so much business they’ve had to turn people away, owner Martha Castillo-Gutierrez said.

“Yesterday we did four (houses,) and we passed one on to another company,” Castillo-Gutierrez said. “We’ll be working till one in the morning.”

The small mom and pop shop usually deals with one basement a month but has dealt with seven in the last three days.

Mid Michigan Restoration, 1421 Rensen St., in Lansing, had 20 flooding jobs to deal with in the last two weeks, 10 times their total for an average month, owner Matthew Fenton said.

“It can get fairly expensive,” Fenton said. “It depends on the size of the space, what’s affected and how much time and equipment is used.”

Since many people don’t have flood insurance, carpet companies can be limited in the amount of help they can provide.

Len’s Carpet Care and Consultants, 3436 Franette Road, in Lansing, has been serving the Greater Lansing community for 35 years, and Production Coordinator Ann Leifker said the company does what they can to help those who are uninsured.

“People want us to come out and extract the water and disinfect if they’re not insured,” Leifker said. “A simple extraction is $500, but (our service) can range up to almost $20,000. It totally depends on your basement.”

One of the leading apartment owners in the area, DTN Management Co., has dealt with some flooding in its apartment complexes this spring without much major damage, Operations Manager Dawn Lawless said.

If there’s been a complete flood, Lawless said it generally takes them 24-48 hours to return the apartment to normal, but there haven’t been any complete floods this spring.

“We’ve been pretty fortunate: We haven’t had too many issues,” she said. “A little flooding, some branches falling, but nothing really extreme.”

The MSU Student Housing Cooperative hasn’t had to deal with much flooding because of landscaping and architectural work done last year, leaving Executive Vice President Dan Tooman pleasantly surprised.

“Previous springs have been a lot more to deal with, and that might be due to some of the work we’ve done on the houses,” Tooman said. “We had a really bad flood season last season. We identified problem areas, and it appears to be working.”

While the MSU co-ops have managed to remain relatively unscathed, Tooman admitted flooding always will be a concern in East Lansing.

“Flooding in any basement in East Lansing is one of the major issues you have to deal with,” he said. “If it rains for five consecutive hours, half the basements are going to flood, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.”