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Note to flood gawkers: please stay at home
"It's very frustrating trying to get from point A to point B," Aline Saywell said. She and her husband and son helped a friend across the river on Henderson Highway sandbag her home threatened by overland flooding from frozen culverts.
All the sightseers out for a drive and a look at the ice jams on the Red are jamming up flood-relief efforts.
"They're older couples in their cars and driving slow," she said. Saywell said she's concerned there will be an accident with all the added traffic in the area, including huge trucks delivering sand and sandbags and cranes alongside the road digging out ditches.
She said one sand truck had to sit so long in a driveway trying to turn onto Henderson Highway packed with motorists that it started to sink into the soft ground and got stuck.
"We need to let these people know," she said.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition March 30, 2009 A4
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