Flood in East coast of Canada

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Gaspé towns on high alert for more flooding

Water-logged communities across Quebec's Gaspé region are implementing emergency measures as heavy rains continue to fall and rivers spill their banks.

Water-logged communities across Quebec's Gaspé region are implementing emergency measures as heavy rains continue to fall and rivers spill their banks.

The worst-hit area, around the town of Gaspé, has received 140 millimetres of rain in the last two days, and more is expected on Wednesday.

More than 150 people have been forced out of their homes in nearby Rivière-au-Renard, with many spending the night in an emergency shelter set up by the Red Cross in the community.
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More homes were also evacuated in Haldimand.

Lifelong Gaspé resident Elizabeth Baird said she had seen many storms and floods, but nothing that compares with what the community is experiencing this week.

"It's beyond words, really, It is starting to get scary," she told CBC News.

"My niece who lives right door is hollering at us to get an excavator because the water is going under their trailer [home], which means it is going to eat out the blocking under it. It's serious."
Flooding stretches across peninsula

The Cascapedia River, which cuts across the entire peninsula, has spilled its banks in several sections. The waters have flooded roads and caused evacuations of homes, particularly in the southern town of Cascapedia-Saint-Jules.

Mayor Pat St-Onges said municipal crews have been rescuing people whose homes have been surrounded by lakes of water.

"We got them out before we had to use helicopters or anything," he told CBC News.

"We put the front buckets on the loaders and went through the roads with the bucket down [and used] four-wheel drive vehicles behind to bring the people out."
Roads washed out

Quebec provincial police are advising people to avoid driving. Police say many roads in the region are covered in water, and some bridges are threatening to give way under the force of rising, fast-moving rivers.

Highway 197 linking Rivière-au-Renard and Gaspé has been closed.

A landslide on Tuesday also forced the closure of Highway 299 north of New Richmond.

On the other side of the St. Lawrence River, on the North Shore, part of Highway 385 near Forestville collapsed.

Environment Canada is predicting 50 millimetres of rain to fall on the Gaspé region on Wednesday.

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That kind of weather as never been seen in Canada !

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That kind of weather as never been seen in Canada !

(I know I'm kind of necroposting, but it has been less than a month and someone has to answer to this thread )

Indeed! It's really scary.. Until now we had been kind of "out of danger" regarding over flooding, but it was clear it was not going to remain that way. Although the event is worrying and shocking, I have to admit that deep inside, I'm not really surprised. In fact, the whole whether is getting crazy here. Our winters are becoming more and more weird and strangely warm, while Europe seems to have gotten all of our usual snow and cold temperatures this year. I think the whole Earth is upside-down.