the Water poured like a tsunami. It was not there and then it was just there. You had to go quickly, ” said Michele Ellison to the public service company of CBC.
Michele Ellison and the other inhabitants of Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac prior warning, which allowed during the Saturday night of sirens and police megaphones when large quantities of meltwater received the pond to a nearby lake to burst.
”Evacuate now! Evacuation now!” I went out and saw my children screaming and crying, and then we all ran, ” says another accommodation, Annie Pépin, to the CBC.
valuables to the upper floor of their house while the water rose, but got cut short when the police and emergency services knocked on to make sure that all around the 2,500 homes were evacuated.
” the Police and the emergency services saved lives. We saw that people took out, we had not done it had it been about the serious injury or death, ” says polissergeanten Daniel Thibaudeau to the CBC.
A couple of hours later the water was over two metres deep in some places, and the levels continued to rise during Sunday.
in Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac had over 2,000 people in the state of Quebec had to evacuate their home because of flooded streams created by meltwater. Total is now 7,700 people evacuated, nearly twice as many as the record level two years ago.
Quebec’s vice-prime minister Geneviève Guilbault said at a press conference on Sunday that the next few hours would be critical, but that the situation should stabilise, given that, according to the forecasts not going to rain until Wednesday.
– It will make to both our team and the residents finally get a chance to catch your breath.
