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Canada floods: More Alberta cities located on attentive
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Canada floods: More Alberta cities located on attentive
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More group of people in the
Canadian province of Alberta have been placed on flood alert as high water
levels move downstream from the city of Calgary.
About
10,000 inhabitants in low-lying areas of the city of pills Hat have been
ordered to leave their homes.
In
Calgary, river levels have recede but the city remnants under a state of
emergency.
The
floods, triggered by torrential rain, have killed at least three people and
displaced more than 100,000 others.
Calgary's
emergency organization agency chief Bruce Burrell said on Saturday they were
seeing improvements in the city's two rivers - the Bow and Elbow.
The
news encouraged Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi to Tweet: "It's morning in
Calgary! Sunny, water levels are down, and our spirit remains strong. We're not
out of this, but maybe have turned corner."
However,
he later warned that a state of emergency was still in effect.
More
than 20 neighbourhoods in Calgary have been evacuated with an estimated 75,000
residents ordered from their homes.
Large areas of Calgary are
still under water
The
town of High River, south-west of Calgary, has been one of the hardest-hit
areas and remained under an mass departure order. Police said they had
recovered three bodies in the area.
Alberta
Premier Alison Redford Tweeted: "A very emotional day so far. The
destruction in High River is indescribable. The town is resilient and we will
rebuild."
She
also warned on Saturday that towns and cities downstream of Calgary had not yet
felt the full force of the floodwaters.
The
focus of the emergency is now shifting to the southeast, Canadian broadcaster CBC reported, towards
the cities of Lethbridge and Medicine Hat.
In
Medicine Hat, the South Saskatchewan River is not expected to peak until Monday
and many residents are being evacuated to a local college, CBC said, citing
officials.
Canadian
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who is from Calgary, said he never anticipated
the city could suffer a flood of such magnitude.
"This
is incredible. I've seen a little bit of flooding in Calgary before. I don't
think any of us have seen anything like this before. The magnitude is just
extraordinary," he said.
The
floods come after torrential rain swept Alberta, capped by a 4in (10cm)
downpour on Thursday.
The
deluge washed away roads and bridges, cut power lines and submerged hundreds of
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