Homes under water, evacuations ordered as ice jam blocks river north of Winnipeg at 6:38 on March 26, 2009, EDT. By Steve Lambert, THE CANADIAN PRESS
A home is threatened by flooding from melt water in a south Winnipeg community. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods LOCKPORT, Man. - Ice jamming on the Red River north of Winnipeg flooded a couple dozen homes Wednesday and was threatening more, leaving officials and residents preparing for the worst.
Emergency measures co-ordinator Paul Guyader said another 30 or 40 houses had been evacuated, while the province said hundreds more people had been put on alert.
"The jam is still there and the water is still coming up, so we're making preparations for in the neighbourhood of hundreds of homes we're going to have to try and protect or evacuate," he said.
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at 6:38 on March 26, 2009, EDT.
By Steve Lambert, THE CANADIAN PRESS
A home is threatened by flooding from melt water in a south Winnipeg community. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods
LOCKPORT, Man. - Ice jamming on the Red River north of Winnipeg flooded a couple dozen homes Wednesday and was threatening more, leaving officials and residents preparing for the worst.
Emergency measures co-ordinator Paul Guyader said another 30 or 40 houses had been evacuated, while the province said hundreds more people had been put on alert.
"The jam is still there and the water is still coming up, so we're making preparations for in the neighbourhood of hundreds of homes we're going to have to try and protect or evacuate," he said.