Isle Mercier Residents Struggle with Bridge Closure

0:00It's May 1st. Welcome in. This is Canada News Today, where local news meets AI. I'm Corey with the story. Residents Onede, Mercier, are fed up because the bridge linking their island to El Bizarre remains close to cars, even as river water levels. Stabilize. It's shut down to vehicles in mid-April due to high water and strong currents, with pedestrians blocked too until earlier this week. Now folks can walk across since the bridge is mostly dry, but city emergency teams won't greenlight vehicles yet. Firefighters, police, and an ambulance stand guard at the entrance around the clock. Long-time locals like Pier Lou Cauchon and Sonia Brown feel the strain hard. Cauchon questions why they can't drive for water and supplies, while Brown and IT tech hauling computers, monitors, and her daughter's school bag. Dreads the 10-minute trek, some are crashing in hotels instead. Officials explain their assessing risks based on projections.

1:00Noting levels have dipped slightly, but sit higher than normal this time of year. Rain of North spells trouble, with rises expected early to mid next week. Island vets no spring floods hit yearly. Rivaling recent peaks, but nowhere near the devastation of 2017 or 2019, went homes. Got bulldozed. For now, Cauchon rules as everyone braces for what flows downstream.