Flooding prompts evacuations in cottage country

Sandbagging, evacuations and emergency meetings are taking place in cottage country to deal with swelling lakes and severe flooding.

Bracebridge, Huntsville, Kawartha Lakes and Bancroft are among the municipalities under a state of emergency and are warning residents in affected areas to move to higher ground.

In Bracebridge, the situation is expected to get worse Sunday night and into Monday morning.

“The town is really stressing to residents in low-lying areas and flood-prone areas to really have evacuation plans in order ahead of time,” Moose FM news director Matt Sitler told CityNews.

After a precarious day in Huntsville on Saturday, the lakes had started to crest and the situation had stabilized, Parry Sound-Muskoka MP Tony Clement told CityNews Sunday morning.

He said the next steps would be planning road repair, housing and operational details

“We have an unprecedented situation where north of Highway 60, Highway 11 is in fact washed out,” he said. “In anyone’s memory, that has never happened before.

“This is something that the community is more or less used to. Having said that, you’re dealing with displaced people. You’re dealing with wondering whether your particular lake is going to rise.”

Bracebridge and Huntsville had severe flooding in early 2008.

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