The fields are saturated with water around here, the La Salle river is very high behind my house and hasn't crested yet ? My half basement is wet and the sump pump is now going every 2 minutes for a week...
Oh man, again??? No sandbags Pascal?
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars (now converted to a "factory" 4 speed)
You better check those sandbags Pascal. They usually rot. You will likely find the bags fall apart when you pick them up. Check them in case you have to get new bags.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars (now converted to a "factory" 4 speed)
On the front page of our 20 page Charlottetown paper!
I don't see a TA smoke show in the background!
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Prince Edward Island
'64 Parisienne CS "barn find" - last on the road in '86 ... Owner Protection Plan booklet, original paint, original near-mint aqua interior, original aqua GM floor mats, original 283, factory posi, and original rust.
You could have almost watched that on the live camera. They are standing just out of the picture on the right side of the live view of that bridge.
Gavin is a local church pastor as well. He is from South Africa but married a local girl. Great guy, glad to see him in the mayor's seat. He's a go-getter.
I was over the bridge about 5 hours ago. Not much change in level yet. They have decided to go day by day and just keep monitoring the level. They take a lot of abuse if they close the highway too soon. It's a 4 lane, MAJOR trucking route to the US. An hour north of the bridge is the junction of the Trans Canada hwy. It is a very busy truck route, normally. However, I already notice less traffic than usual because the same road is an interstate 30 miles south of us, and part of that interstate is underwater/closed.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars (now converted to a "factory" 4 speed)
There is quite a bit of traffic across that bridge. I was wondering why. 3 cars in a row in Charlottetown is a traffic jam here!
Last night I saw 3 kids running across the road to the waters-edge, and then back again on the camera. I think one of them mooned it!
Ya, I noticed the water level hasn't picked much more yet. Like I said before, I hope all turns out well.
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Prince Edward Island
'64 Parisienne CS "barn find" - last on the road in '86 ... Owner Protection Plan booklet, original paint, original near-mint aqua interior, original aqua GM floor mats, original 283, factory posi, and original rust.
That's scarey Pascal. When do you start sandbagging?
Hope everything turns out okay for you also!
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Prince Edward Island
'64 Parisienne CS "barn find" - last on the road in '86 ... Owner Protection Plan booklet, original paint, original near-mint aqua interior, original aqua GM floor mats, original 283, factory posi, and original rust.
Just got home from work and first thing I did is go look at the river, to my surprise it went down a couple inches woohoo ! Mind you it is freezing cold here tonight so it's slowing down the thaw...
They still say we are going to be in the range of 6" under to 6" over 2009. I still can't make that work in my head. We have almost no snow, lots of our water is gone, some of the tributaries are dropping yet it's all gloom and doom. We must be getting a whole whack of water from the south then....
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars (now converted to a "factory" 4 speed)
Yes, but 2009 was a very early flood, about 2 weeks earlier than normal.
However, this one is showing signs of being like none we have experienced. I have a tiny little hunch this one may not be as bad as they are predicting but I could be wrong. Hope I'm not though!
Most times when the water nails us hard from the USA, we are in the midst of our spring runoff. We have moved out a lot of our water already this year and it looks like the USA water is at least a week away still.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars (now converted to a "factory" 4 speed)
Just watched some guy walk to the bridge, get on his cell phone and walk back toward the carmera waving....
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1960 Pontiac Strato Chief Safari 1960 Laurentian Safari 1960 Laurentian 4door(scrapped) 2001 Grand Am Traded on a '96 Suburban 2WD 2002 Hyundai Accent(SOLD) 1968 Grand Parisienne Scrapped and SOLD
This is a live camera setup on the north end of Morris Manitoba. This is the bridge over the Morris river about 1/2 mile west of where it meets the famous Red River. As the cars drive away from the camera, they are heading straight for our house. If they didn't have to go around the curve at the top of the screen and kept going straight north, they'd hit our living room in 3 miles!
Yup, the road is closed. The water will be on the bridge likely in the next 36 hours or so and there is a lower spot that is not quite visible so they had to close it up.
If I had the guts it would be a perfect time to take the Trans Am out on the highway! 8 miles of abandoned 4 lane highway, closed right up at each end but I have access to it from a side road!
Looking at what is coming, I think we are in for a 2009 all over again, sadly. It all points to almost an identical flood.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars (now converted to a "factory" 4 speed)
Charlottetown paper!
