Parts Of Quebec Reeling From Deadly Flooding

A capture from a video by David Cloudier shows an 
RV swept away by flood waters on Monday crashing
into a bridge northeast of Quebec City. 

The same storm that caused some pretty bad flooding in New Jersey, the New York City area and in New Hampshire and Maine also slammed parts of Quebec especially bad. 

The Charlevoix region, a little northeast of Quebec City, was especially hard hit. Two firefighters died during rescue attempts. Numerous homes and buildings were damaged. Video from the region shows RVs being swept away by a raging river and then being crushed into a bridge.  

Several hundred people have been evacuated from homes and dozens of roads are closed by high water or washouts. Video shows some gaps in flood damaged roads to be as much as ten feet deep. 

Two day care centers were abruptly evacuated Monday, and children were rushed to an arena on higher ground. Parents were later able to retrieve their kids there. None of them were injured. 

Rivers were already running near flood stage in the area from spring snow melt. Then the heavy rain hit. 

The heavy rain is over, but lighter showers are slowing the pace of receding water along some Quebec rivers. The same region was hit by severe spring flooding in 2017 and 2019.  Quebec officials said three so-called 100 year floods within seven years is a sign of climate change. 

On entirely the opposite side of Canada, on the west coast, a number of homes have been evacuated and more might be A warm spell abruptly melted a lot of snow in the mountains, and flood waters have rushed down the slopes. 

Officials there hope a spell of somewhat cooler weather moving in will calm things down.