![]() ![]() On Monday evening, officials in Mont-Tremblant asked people living on four streets near the Diable River to leave their homes, warning the river would reach flooding levels overnight. North of Montreal, in Quebec’s Laurentians region, several municipalities warned residents to take precautions. “That said, we are at the mercy of the weather, so we never know if there is rain, if there are strong winds, everything could change quite quickly, so we’re still asking the public to be ready.” “We had a little less rain than expected, so the flows are a bit lower for the next 48 hours than were initially forecast at the beginning of the week,” he said. However, he said, the weather forecast had brought good news. In Montreal, fire Chief Richard Liebmann said the city opened a flooding coordination centre on Tuesday to help people protect their homes and boroughs and municipalities on Montreal Island protect public property. Gatineau had major flooding in 20, which affected hundreds of homes. She said the city started distributing sandbags and teams were on the ground monitoring the situation. Water levels, she added, were expected to remain high for several more days, and about 254 buildings were at risk of flooding. ![]() The Ottawa River was rising about one centimetre an hour, Bélisle said, with the peak expected to come between Wednesday and Friday. “Water levels are still rising, but a little slower than expected,” she said. He said officials were paying particular attention to the Outaouais region in western Quebec.įrance Bélisle, the mayor of Gatineau, the largest city in the Outaouais, called on citizens to remain vigilant even though weather forecasts were calling for less rain than had been expected earlier in the week. “It’s stable, but if it ends up being more serious, we’re ready.” “We’ve been preparing for weeks,” he said in an interview. Ménard-Suarez said the situation was stable, adding that the flooding across the province occurs in the same places every year. In southern Quebec, warm temperatures and precipitation have led to elevated waterways, Joshua Ménard-Suarez, a spokesman with the Public Security Department, said Tuesday. MONTREAL - Public safety officials in Quebec say they’re hoping for the best but preparing for the worst as the province’s spring flooding season begins.
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