Water spilled onto roads and seeped into basements as water levels peaked in Fredericton on Friday.
For the second time in a week, many Fredericton residents spent Friday pumping water out of their basements.
“We do get it a lot of years. This is probably my fifth or sixth flood since we moved in 24 years ago,” says Patricia Hughes. “It’s kind of part of life. We’ve grown to get used to it.”
Several locations along the St. John River, below Fredericton, are expected to surpass flood stage over the weekend.
“Down river, all this water is going this way so they’ll be above flood stage for the next couple days now,” says Paul Bradley of New Brunswick’s Emergency Measures Organization.
River watchers say cool, dry weather is expected to help stabilize water levels over the next 48 hours but Bradley says the flood threat may not be over.
“I was talking to one of our emergency management organizers today and he thought up in the northwest there was still three to four feet of snow in the woods, so that remains a concern,” says Bradley.
He says the rise and fall of rivers will likely stretch into next month.
With files from CTV Atlantic's Nick Moore
