The heavy rain of the last week has pushed the Souris River over its banks across southern Saskatchewan causing extensive damage and that flood is now heading into North Dakota. Forecasters in Minot are predicting a record crest at least 10 feet over the previous benchmark established in 1969. The river twists and bends through the heart of Minot. Evacuations have been ordered and will begin at 6pm tonight. The water is expected to peak by the weekend with major flooding forecast. Strong low pressure that is moving slowly across the Midwest produced as much as 300mm of rain on the already soaked region. The storm is now moving towards the Great Lakes with heavy rain and thunderstorms. Storms yesterday knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of homes in Chicago. Today those thunderstorms will reach into southwest Ontario and western New York and should begin to affect Quebec by Thursday.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Record flooding moves south
The heavy rain of the last week has pushed the Souris River over its banks across southern Saskatchewan causing extensive damage and that flood is now heading into North Dakota. Forecasters in Minot are predicting a record crest at least 10 feet over the previous benchmark established in 1969. The river twists and bends through the heart of Minot. Evacuations have been ordered and will begin at 6pm tonight. The water is expected to peak by the weekend with major flooding forecast. Strong low pressure that is moving slowly across the Midwest produced as much as 300mm of rain on the already soaked region. The storm is now moving towards the Great Lakes with heavy rain and thunderstorms. Storms yesterday knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of homes in Chicago. Today those thunderstorms will reach into southwest Ontario and western New York and should begin to affect Quebec by Thursday.
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