Montreal Braces for Floods, Ready to Defend

0:00Montreal's bracing for water levels that could rival the massive floods of 2017 and 2019 this weekend, as lakes and rivers keep, rising around the city. Forecasts show them climbing right through Sunday, but officials say they're locked and loaded with defenses in place. They've been on it since mid-March, cranking the flettler to max on Thursday and monitoring every hour. No buildings are streets flooded yet, even with recent rains, and while it's sunny and warm today, they're eyeing upstream snowmills and more showers. Coming Saturday night into Sunday, up to 15 to 25 millimeters. Mayor Saraya Martinez-Ferrata and Fire Chief Richard Liebman hit the Rivier-Day Prairie Shore Friday to stress they're ready to move fast. Pierre Fonds-Rotsboro's, Rocksboro's Jim Bice, added that Mother Nature flip-scripts quick, with forecast shifting from just days ago. The city's rolled out pumps, sandbags, and modular dikes and hot spots like Pierre Fonds-Rotsboro,

1:00Lail Bizarre's Stage in Aviève, and a Huntsit Cartierville. Water rescue teams stand by starting Saturday, and that key bridge to Lail Bizarre from A.L.A. Mercier could close if level spike, they're watching it, close. Lessons from 2017's disaster, 430 homes hit, 1100 folks displaced, cut damage in 2019, and now. Montreal's prep to keep history from repeating. From your city, powered by AI, this is Canada News Today, I'm Corey with the story.