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"I'm not going to look at a concrete wall -- it'd be like living in Stony," said Florent, referring to the federal penitentiary.
To raise the home to the new minimum provincial guideline of 1997 flood level plus-two-feet wasn't desired either. The [Celine Beaudette] home was raised five feet after the 1966 flood. "We felt we were already up, a bit of an island as it is," he said. The Beaudettes' dike held in 2006, which was comparable to the fourth largest Red River flood in a century. The water reached four inches high on the family's concrete walls. Still, the basement pump was turning on every five minutes from ground leakage.See the full content of this document
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Keeping the Memory Fresh
Volunteers in Ste. Agathe maintain flood museum
STE. AGATHE -- It was paramount that someone put up a museum to remember the Flood of the Century, said the curator of such a museum in this francophone community. "Complacency...See the full content of this document
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