Greg MacCallum, the provincial EMO director, said it’s important that people remain patient.
“The precipitation that we got has to work its way through the system. It’s a slow thing to get this much water out of the river basin, so we once again are asking people to be patient,” MacCallum said Sunday.
Ahmed Dassouki of the Department of Transportation and Infrastructure said there were 84 road closures across the province as of Sunday afternoon.“They could be undermined, or there could be debris. You don’t know what’s down there,” he said.MacCallum cautioned residents from trying to return to their homes or check on cottages too soon. He said it is still not safe to be on the water.
Bill Lawlor, New Brunswick director of the Canadian Red Cross, said a fundraising effort was launched Friday, but he didn’t know how much was raised over the weekend. A similar effort last year raised $1.6 million.
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