fountains of the sink, washed cars, thousands of bags of sand: Canada is fighting with a devastating flood. Thousands had to leave their homes. Two years ago there was severe Flooding.
White foams, the Spray from the roaring water. The flood masses seem to be almost the carriageway of the Chaudière-to reach the bridge over the Ottawa River. Which is closed now for security reasons – she is one of five bridges that takes you from Canada’s capital Ottawa from across the river into the neighbouring Gatineau. At least, the helpfulness of the people was enormous, so a local resident. In case of emergency, his helper quickly.
The Ottawa River has reached a new all-time high. The canadian authorities announced. The highs relating to the capital, Ottawa, but also other regions, and also go over the values of the devastating flood of two years ago.
A soldier of a company in Clarence-Rockland with sand bags.
“hard to bear”
devastating, says a local resident in Aylmer the TV station CBC. Finally, you’ve experienced the first two years of a similar Situation. Then, too, recognized the devastating Floods in the Region. The Town of Aylmer is located directly on the banks of the Ottawa river. Sandbag barriers surrounding the houses. Generators roar, to pumps, to drive. “It’s hard to look at. My mother, my brother and I, we came here to us to build a future. Then, when something happens that is hard to bear.”
The Ottawa River is over wide areas of the river on the border between the provinces of Quebec and Ontario, which are particularly affected by the Floods. Ottawa, and the metropolis of Montréal have a call in addition to other places of the state of emergency, to be able to help better, coordinate. Over 5000 Volunteers would help, said one of the representatives of the authorities from Ottawa. The army is in use.
Premier Justin Trudeau helped the bags during the Filling of the sand. “Once we are safely through this season of the spring flood through, then we need a debate about how to go on,” he says. The situation make clear how important the fight against climate change.
thousands of people all around Montreal were forced to leave the Region.
authorities expect an increasing level of
After a levee was breached in a suburb of Montreal, thousands had to leave their homes. A local resident said the water is shot out from his sink and a drain in the floor, literally. Another said that he had now nothing more. The water standing about half a Meter high in his house. Quebec Premier françois Legault has announced that his provincial government will immediately give a Million canadian dollars to the Red cross, the Evacuees could not be helped. His Minister Geneviève Guilbault said, the first according to surveys, the water had reached more than 2500 houses.
The authorities expect that the Ottawa River was its maximum is not always reached. Cause of melt is a mixture of heavy rain and snow.
Ottawa River reaches new all-time high
Kai, Clement, ARD New York
29.04.2019 06:47 PM
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