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[这个投票最后由止爱之殇在 2009/04/29 07:11am 第 12 次编辑] Millions of sandbags used in flood fight headed for zoo, landfills WINNIPEG - Water from heavy flooding in Manitoba this spring is receding, which leaves many communities with one burning question - what to do with millions of used sandbags? In Winnipeg, the city is spending around $1 million on contractors to deal with the mess. The contractors will collect more than 500,000 sandbags from backyards and driveways. The city says any bags that got wet with water from the swollen Red River are going straight to a landfill. But officials hope at least 100,000 will be recycled. The Winnipeg zoo wants as many used sandbags as possible to line the bottom of its bird exhibits. 4月16号更新 An abandoned truck sits half-submerged on Hwy. 247, close to the junction with Hwy. 75 south of Winnipeg: A road is rebuilt today after the previous access road was washed away at this house on Turnbull Drive: [img]http://media.winnipegfreepress.com/images/IMG00476.jpg[img] The state of emergency affects properties in Winnipeg's primary dike area, indicated in red on the map: Mayor Sam Katz has signed an order declaring a state of emergency for low-lying portions of Winnipeg as the Red River continues to rise. The mayor signed the order at 11:13 a.m. at the behest of emergency measures coordinator Randy Hull. It affects most properties alongside the city’s four rivers. A state of emergency gives government additional powers to ensure flood-protection orders are carried out. It does not mean Winnipeg's population is at imminent risk. It allows the city to carry out mandatory evacuations in the event conditions change quickly, Katz said. "It’s basically a precaution, so I don’t want anyone to be alarmed," the mayor said outside his office, dressed in the jeans and sweatshirt he wore to help sandbag along Scotia Street this morning. "In the past, we have had asked for voluntary evacuations, but I can tell you, the majority of times, when you ask for voluntary evacuations, no one leaves their homes and I understand why." The only portion of Winnipeg under a voluntary evacuation order is Christie Road, even though no properties are imminently threatened in that South St. Vital neighbourhood, area councilor Gord Steeves said. The order is in place because water is on the road, which could pose transportation problems in the event of a medical emergency, Steeves said. Tube dikes protecting the street failed Wednesday. Most of the city’s flood-protection effort is focused in the north half of the city right now. Sandbag dikes are being raised or built at approximately 100 properties along the Red, Seine and Assiniboine Rivers. The city has enough sandbagging volunteers to raise and build dikes for the next few hours, but will need more people this evening, once high school students go home, city spokeswoman Pam Sveinson said. Volunteers are asked to call 311 to register and await instructions about where to go. As of 1 p.m. today, the Red River had risen to 22.5 feet above winter ice conditions at the James Avenue monitoring station, which is two feet below the 1997 flood level. A revised flood forecast is expected from the province this afternoon. Tory Leader Hugh McFadyen took a helicopter tour of areas north of the city today, including devastated homes in Breezy Point . 4月15号更新 Two Amphibex ice-breaking machines working to break ice along the Red River north of Winnipeg, where dozens of homes have already suffered flooding due to a massive ice jam last week that blocked the river. Ice is seen on the Red and Assiniboine rivers at The Forks in downtown Winnipeg on Tuesday. Click on the photo above to see more images from Bruce Owen's aerial tour Downtown The Forks 前后对比视频 [/b National Guard members work with firefighters to build up a sandbag wall after a breach in a wall surrounding Oak Grove Lutheran School and the surrounding neighborhood in Fargo, N.D. in the early morning hours of Sunday. A line of sandbaggers works under clear skies Friday outside a home in Lockport, Manitoba. On Thursday morning, the ice jam on the Red River extended from the St. Andrews Lock and Dam at Lockport north towards Selkirk. March29,2009 FARGO, N.D. - Fargo residents came together at churches Sunday and prayed they would be spared the Red River's wrath as water burst a levee and swamped a school, providing a powerful omen for the type of disaster that could strike at any time. Church services that are a staple of life on Sunday mornings in Fargo took on greater significance as people gathered after a week of sandbagging, worrying and helping neighbours and prayed that their levees would keep holding the water back. They bowed their heads, sang hymns of hope and held their hands in prayer, and the mayor opened his morning briefing with a blessing. "At a time like this, we need to call on God's providential assistance," said pastor Bob Ona of Fargo's First Assembly of God church. "All of you have been heroic in your efforts. All of you have been pushed past the wall of weariness, exhaustion and numerous frustrations in order to do the right thing - help people in the name of the Lord." The Red River continued its slow retreat Sunday after cresting a day earlier, dropping to 12.1 metres - still more than 6 1/2 metres above flood stage. The river may still fluctuate as much as 30 centimetres and remain at dangerous levels for a week, testing the long line of sandbag levees that residents hastily constructed all week. Fargo faces another test this week as a storm approached with up to 60 centimetres of snow and powerful wind gusts that could send ferocious waves crashing into and over the already-stressed levees. The sandbag effort resumed Sunday as helicopters began dropping one-tonne sandbags into the river to deflect its violent current and keep it from eroding vulnerable areas of the dike system. The aerial effort also included unmanned Predator drones used to watch flood patterns and ice floes and provide high-definition information to teams on the ground. North Dakota has more than 2,400 National Guard troops engaged in the flood fight across the state. The helicopter sandbag effort was focused on an area of the river that put another scare in the city during the night when it burst past a levee and submerged a Lutheran school campus. Oak Grove Lutheran Principal Morgan Forness said city officials, the Army Corps of Engineers, and the National Guard unsuccessfully tried to contain the gushing water after a floodwall buckled around 1:30 a.m. The water kept spreading and "we couldn't contain it. ... it's inundating all of the buildings," said Principal Morgan Forness. "The campus is basically devastated. They fought the good fight. They lost and there's nothing wrong with that," Mayor Dennis Walaker said. "Those things will continue to happen. I guarantee it." Crews largely contained the flooding to the campus, preventing more widespread damage in nearby areas. School officials also frantically raced to rescue a cockatiel, parakeet and tortoises, birds, iguanas and snakes kept at the school as part of its science program. The flooding at the campus - heavily damaged in the region's 1997 flood - represented the type of disaster that could crop up in Fargo throughout the week, with Walaker calling it a "wakeup call" for the city. "The main event is right now, while we have this higher water. And it ain't over till it's over," said Representative Earl Pomeroy (D-N.D.), comparing the need for vigilance until the very end to the University of North Dakota's stunning, last-second loss in the hockey playoffs the night before. "And it ain't gonna be over until several days from now." The levee watch in Fargo was one of several fronts in the fight against the Red River. Public works officials were closely monitoring the situation to make sure that water and sewer systems remain safe and that raw sewage doesn't back up into homes. Flooding statewide was blamed for two deaths, in central and western North Dakota, in what health officials said were apparent heart attacks brought on by flood-prevention exertions. Moorhead, a city of 30,000 city directly across the river in Minnesota, also was fighting to hold back the river. A husband and wife had to be rescued by boat from their home just south of the city after they became trapped on the second floor, said Clay County Sheriff Bill Bergquist. Moorhead Mayor Mark Boxland said he was concerned but still optimistic about how long his city's dike could last against the pressure of the river water. "Some of us aren't sure how strong they might be," he said. "We have a long way to go." The flood was caused by an enormous winter snowfall that melted and combined with more precipitation to send the river to record levels. The river flows from south to north through the tabletop terrain of North Dakota, providing few opportunities to drain. "The place is so flat," said John Gulliver, a professor of civil engineering at the University of Minnesota. "It is totally flat so there's really no place for the water to go because it can't leave that quickly. So it just keeps backing up like a bathtub with a slow drain." Triumph Lutheran Brethren Church held its Sunday services at a Ramada hotel to accommodate all the people from other churches that cancelled worship because of the flood. They pared down the service - no high-tech PowerPoint presentations, no food, no Sunday school. "Just prayer, some old hymns everybody knows, and being together," said church member Tami Crist. "We can sit back and know that we've done what we can do. Now God's going to do what he can do," she said. The pastor at the Assemblies of God church said now was the time to turn to spirituality for hope and not obsess about material possessions. After a week in which the church used its buses to shuttle people to feverish sandbagging efforts, Ona told the congregation that "we have done everything we can do, humanly speaking." "We don't feel we deserve any awards or plaques for what we did," he added. "We are a church. This is what we do." March29,2009 St. Andrews Reeve Don Forfar says the sandbagging is pretty much done between Lockport and Lower Fort Garry. Officials turned their attention Sunday to homes north of Selkirk at risk of ice jams. The morning was slower for volunteers at the St. Andrews Fire Hall, which has become the hub for volunteers. But by the afternoon, hundred were there, and busloads of people were dispatched to homes north of Selkirk. Lena Meger got one of those busloads of people - Hutterites, students and average Manitobans from Winnipeg, Birds Hill and beyond. Meger's split level home on Breezy Point Road flooded in '96, escaped in '97 and is now at serious risk of ice jam flooding. Her ring dike needs an extra two or three feet of elevation, which is why the sandbag crew arrived Sunday afternoon. "This makes me cry," she said as the line of baggers formed. Her family, including grandsons Jeff Meger and Rob McCarthy, moved all her belonging up from the basement except a piano and her preserves. "She doesn't let us touch her pickles," joked Jeff Meger as dozens of volunteers laid down the first layer behind him. The amphibex ice breakers are now working just north of Selkirk, and Water Minister Christine Melnick arrived to sandbag Sunday. The Red River is slowly rising, but it’s ice jams that threaten homes in Winnipeg and in the Lockport and Selkirk areas. Today, about 30 homes in Winnipeg are expected to start sandbagging. They were added to the list of at-risk properties Saturday as city officials became increasingly worried about ice jams. Another 50 homes that already had dikes built have been asked to hike them by a foot. The floodway isn’t expected to be used for days, probably not even before Friday. That’s because cool weather expected this week means ice flows on the Red won’t likely move enough to allow the floodway gates to be safely activated. Warnings March26, 2009 Ice jam budges, moves northRed River down, but municipalities still sandbagging A massive ice jam south of Lockport that has caused major flooding in rural municipalities north of Winnipeg has broken and the Red River in the area is dropping. But local officials believe the ice will likely jam farther north and cause more flooding. As the jam moved past Lockport, the river level to the south dropped about a metre almost immediately. Manitoba's flood forecasters are updating the province's flood outlook this afternoon at 2:30 p.m. The mayor of the RM of St. Clements said the ice jam moved about a kilometre past Lockport but by 9:30 a.m. was already starting to bottleneck again. He said St. Clements is bracing for the "worst two weeks" in the community’s history as ice-clogged culverts, ice jams and the rising Red River threaten dozens of homes. Steve Strang said the movement of the ice was just delaying the inevitable. "The ice jam has broken up but only to resettle in another area and the process starts all over again," said an exhausted Strang, who had less than two hours of sleep. "Mother Nature will decide when she’s going to crack this baby loose." Emergency measures officials expect the ice to continue on its stop-and-start progress up the Red River, clogging repeatedly and backing water up in the Red, flooding properties in it wake. The ice jam had caused the Red River to overflow its banks, flooding a couple of dozen homes in the rural municipalites of St. Clements and St. Andrews. The rising waters was also threatening homes in East St. Paul and West St. Paul earlier this morning. All four rural municipalities declared states of emergency on Wednesday. This morning, with the river level dropping, East St. Paul lifted its evacuation alert. Premier Gary Doer toured the area this morning. The provincial government is providing the municipalities with: heavy equipment to break the ice a second sandbag machine and 100,000 sandbags approximately 9,000 feet of water barrier (tube diking) authorization to the RM of St. Clements to use leftover dirt from the nearby floodway project for constructing dikes. Strang said about a dozen homes in St. Clements have been flooded, while another 40 homes in the rural municipality are at risk to take on river water. He said garages and shops have also been damaged from overland flooding, estimating the damage incurred is already in "the millions." Strang said his own shop suffered about $40,000 in flood damage. The reprieve, he said, could be short lived. Strang said he had been prepared to ask Doer to "dynamite the river" much like the drastic steps taken in North Dakota on Wednesday. "I was going to say, 'To heck with a few minnows. We have to try it.' " Meanwhile, across the river in St. Andrews, sandbagging efforts continue in earnest. "We need volunteers for everything -- manning the phones, making sandbags," said St. Clements’ emergency services co-ordinator Jim Stinson. He said the RM is working with St. Andrews, East St. Paul and West. St. Paul to co-ordinate their efforts. Volunteers should call 1-204-482-3300 to find out where they’re needed most. The sandbagging depot is located at the St. Andrews Fire Hall on Main Street near Donald Road. Bags will be filled to be used at all four municipalities. "We don’t know what’s going to happen," Stinson said. "I’m feeling very, very sad for everybody who has this water coming around them. They’re so helpless and not used to it." He said there are so many needs it’s almost overwhelming. "I’m running in 20 directions. There are so many priorities. Everybody’s home is a priority," said Stinson, whose phone has been ringing almost non-stop with people yelling that their houses are in peril. "I’m going to try and get more volunteers -- try and get some pumps and get the roads open so people can get to these places to help." The neighbourhoods of Highland Park, Whidbey Harbour and homes along Henderson Highway may be impacted, East St. Paul officials warned. In North Kildonan, Bonner Avenue is impassable between Henderson Highway and Rothesay Street because Bunns Creek has overflowed its banks. In St. Norbert, Coun. Justin Swandel rushed back to his ward Wednesday evening to help homeowners endangered on Turnbull Drive, but found the city got to the most endangered house first. "Our guys are actually in there building a clay dike around that house," Swandel said. "You can’t build sandbags quick enough." He said that ice jams give the city only hours to react, instead of the days of preparation for an approaching river crest. Coun. Bill Clement (Charleswood) and Russ Wyatt (Transcona) were fielding multiple calls about overland flooding from large-lot homes with drainage ditches. "The problem area is on Symington (Road). The culverts are frozen," Wyatt said Wednesday. A senior provincial official said the floodway gates could be raised by the weekend if they are needed and the Red River is free of ice. Raising the gates before the ice has cleared Winnipeg would result in more ice jamming, increasing the risk of flooding. - with files from Canadian Press City of Winnipeg 3:25 PM CDT Monday 23 March 2009 Weather warning for City of Winnipeg upgraded from winter storm watch Locally heavy rain followed by snow with a risk of freezing rain. A Colorado low located over Nebraska late this afternoon is giving rain, snow, and thunderstorms throughout the north-central United States. Rain from this system will move into southeastern Manitoba this evening, then snow will move into southwestern regions overnight. A narrow band of freezing rain may also set up near the rain-snow boundary overnight and Tuesday over south-central Manitoba. On Tuesday as this system moves into northern Minnesota, colder air will be drawn in from the northwest and the rain over southeastern regions will change over to snow. This changeover is expected to take place Tuesday afternoon at Winnipeg and Tuesday night over the southeast corner. Rainfall amounts will be significant for this time of year, especially given the current flooding concerns. 20 to 40 mm are expected for areas southeast of Winnipeg with the highest amounts likely near the american border. After the changeover to snow, a further 5 to 15 cm of snow are likely with snowfall amounts diminishing as you go southeast from Winnipeg. Snow over southern Manitoba will likely persist through Wednesday and possibly into Thursday, however snowfall rates will gradually diminish with time. Current indications are that the heaviest snowfall amounts will be from Portage la Prairie southwest to the Turtle Mountains where totals may range from 20 to 25 cm, then amounts should gradually diminish through the Gimli and Bissett regions. Strong north winds will also give blowing snow and poor visibilities to many areas. 今年的洪水形式很严峻阿。。。。。。

jackey123

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lucylulu

下面引用由T316在 2009/03/25 05:57am 发表的内容： 可以组织中国留学生去做义工参与抗洪准备啊....顺便宣传下自己...呵呵.....

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tizcc

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