There is growing concern in many parts of the Maritimes about what will happen when the weather turns warm and all of the snow begins to melt.
Sean Doyle of the Hammond River Conservation Center says this will be remembered as the winter without rain.
“Usually when it snows it's quite warm, we get a lot of rain mixed in, but we really haven't had a whole lot of rain this year. It's just been straight snow and lots of it,” says Doyle.
The prospect of fast melting with lots of rain would present serious issues for a lot of communities and individual homeowners.
Around my house, I'm on the lower side of a hill, if this all melts and runs down the hill, I don't know if my sump pump can possibly keep up with it,” says Quispamsis resident Steve Gillis.
Gillis says the best case scenario is for days of mild temperatures and a gradual melting of the mountains of snow, although, mother nature may have other plans.
“If we get something like plus ten weather and possibly 100 millimetres of rain with that, we will see quite substantial flooding I would assume,” says Gillis.
The official Emergency Measures Organization river watch in New Brunswick doesn't begin until March 16th, however there are already groups and individual homeowners doing their own unofficial river watches, as concern grows over what could be in store when the weather warms up.
With files from CTV Atlantic's Mike Cameron
