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5/22/2013
The Grenta US border crossing is unaccessable as Highway 30 into the US border and U.S. Highway 18 south of the border have been closed due to water over the road.
All the rain of late has led to the evacuation of parts of North Dakota just south of the Manitoba border.
There are concerns a dam may burst, causing flash flooding.
KFGO Radio news director Don Haney is in Cavalier - one of the towns where people have been told to get out.
"The town is a virtual ghost town. We've been there since early last evening as the evacuation was called. It's a very eerie feeling," Haney tells CJOB.
Manitoba has issued a flood watch for Rosseau River and some Red River tributaries, but no evacuations are needed.
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5/22/2013
Premier Greg Selinger says the province is pushing for a national storm warning system.
"It's a cooperative effort to make it work. We're working with all the private broadcasters across the country to get there. I think it's very important," Selinger tells CJOB.
Pelmorex is a national warning system in Canada, but it's voluntary for TV and radio stations. There is a push for the C-R-T-C to make the system mandatory.
Selinger also wants the CRTC to make better emergency cell coverage in remote areas a requirement for cell phone providers.
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5/22/2013
A simulated emergency exercise will take place tonight at the Winnipeg Richardson International Airport.
The Winnipeg Airports Authority says the incident will involve numerous emergency response vehicles and personnel.
The particulars of the exercise aren't being released to keep the exercise authentic.
The exercise will not disrupt airport operations.
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5/22/2013
Fire crews were called to a house fire in the 400 block of Manitoba Avenue just before 6 am.
One woman was taken to hospital in stable condition.
Police talked to other residents, wrapped in blankets, who escaped the home safely.
(Picture from Global News)
(Picture from CJOB's Keith McCullough)
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5/22/2013
The executive policy committee will debate the merits of an increasingly controversial golf course plan.
Mayor Sam Katz says unlike last week, anyone who wants to say their piece will be given that chance.
"If any citizen comes and they want to speak, I'm going to give them that opportunity," he says.
Councillor Russ Wyatt controversially denied many delegates the opportunity last week - a move Katz now says was wrong.
If the plan to lease four city courses and sell the John Blumberg golf course is passed by EPC, council will have the final vote.
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5/21/2013
Many Manitoba farmers were making pretty good progress seeding... up until the weekend rain.
In its latest crop report, Manitoba Agriculture says the most progress in the Southwest Region was along and north of the Trans-Canada Highway.
About 45% of the wheat crop is now in the ground in the Northwest. Reseeding may be required in the Central Region where the wind last Tuesday gusted up to 90 km/h.
Fertilizer spreading on winter wheat acres was finished last week in the East. The majority of corn and cereal crops were seeded in South Interlake.
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5/21/2013
With all that weekend rain, a flood watch has been issued for the Roseau River.
But down in the south east we're told most of that river is far from breaking its banks.
A similar flood watch has been posted for some Red River tributaries which include, Dead Horse Creek, Riviere aux Marais, Buffalo Creek and Boyne River.
Locals monitored the rising waters last night, but at this point no sandbagging or evacuations are necessary.
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5/21/2013
Winnipeg Police say the 18-year old man whose car ended up in a retention pond Tuesday morning near Dalhousie and Pembina has died.
Emergency personnel were called around 6:30. He was taken to hospital in critical condition, and later died of his injuries. Police say it's not a criminal matter. His name won't be released.
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5/21/2013
The numbers are in - RCMP stopped 43 drivers in Manitoba and charged them with impaired driving over the last week.
In connection with MPI and other police services the RCMP ran a number of checkstops between the 13th and the 20th. The overall number of impaired driving charges is down just a little from the same campaign last year.
An additional 1,300 tickets were written for other road violations - more than half of which were for speeding.
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5/21/2013
Thorhnill, Manitoba - southwest of Winnipeg - appears to have received the highest amount of rain over the long weekend.
Lorraine Nickel of Global News tells CJOB it poured for three straight days:
"Folks out there have been receiving up to eight inches, so about 200 millimetres. That's more than what even Environment Canada recorded. They don't actually have someone in Thornhill to give them a reading, so the highest reading they had was for Deerwood, which isn't far from Thornhill."
Deerwood got 101 millimetres.
Environment Canada Meteorologist Colin Tam says things will dry up over the next few days.
"Gradual clearing today and then it should be mainly sunny and dry for the next few days."
Winnipeg had about 20 mm of rain this weekend - 24 mm measured at The Forks, 18 at the airport.
Gimli and Dauphin didn't have any rain at all.
Chuck Fossay, a farmer near Starbuck, says the rain was a mixed blessing for farmers:
"The crop that you have in the ground, the stuff that you've seeded - they enjoy this good soaking rain, but at the same time it's going to keep us off the fields for another two or three days, ...
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