"Flooding in western Canada has seen 100,000 people evacuated from their homes and washed out
roads and bridges.
Thousands of residents were urged to leave Calgary and nearby towns in the heart of the country's oil patch as the mayor warned the worst of the flooding is yet to come.
The military sent in two helicopters and hundreds of troops to help clear as many as 24 neighbourhoods as heavy rains caused the Bow and Elbow Rivers to overflow their banks.
Water levels were expected to reach their maximum around noon local time on Friday.
Motorists who were trapped overnight on Wednesday by water spilling over Canada's main western highway had to be rescued by helicopter, Town of Canmore spokeswoman Sally Caudill said.
Environment Canada issued a rainfall warning for the affected areas, estimating as much as 10cm more rain could fall in the next two days." SkyNews
Thousands of residents were urged to leave Calgary and nearby towns in the heart of the country's oil patch as the mayor warned the worst of the flooding is yet to come.
The military sent in two helicopters and hundreds of troops to help clear as many as 24 neighbourhoods as heavy rains caused the Bow and Elbow Rivers to overflow their banks.
Water levels were expected to reach their maximum around noon local time on Friday.
Motorists who were trapped overnight on Wednesday by water spilling over Canada's main western highway had to be rescued by helicopter, Town of Canmore spokeswoman Sally Caudill said.
Environment Canada issued a rainfall warning for the affected areas, estimating as much as 10cm more rain could fall in the next two days." SkyNews
Watch below the flooding that swept through East Europe
The floods have lifted up,
O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice;
the floods lift up their waves.
Psalm 93:3