About 200 soldiers started carrying out evacuations in Quebec’s Outaouais and Mauricie regions overnight, with an additional 400 troops standing ready to deploy there and in Laval today
A man walks in a flooded street in Sainte-Marie, Que., on April 20, 2019. The Chaudiere River came out of its bed after heavy rain.Many people in Quebec and New Brunswick will be spending their Sunday filling sandbags as they keep an anxious watch on rising floodwaters that are wreaking havoc across a wide region.
Urgence Quebec says that as of last night, bloated rivers had resulted in 903 flooded residences, 251 isolated residences and 317 evacuees across the province.Eight major floods have been identified as threatening thousands of Quebecers, and so far one death has been blamed on the high water.Jacques Boissinot/The Canadian Press
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