Thursday, March 19, 2015

Moose Jaw Times-Herald: FULL STORY: The remnants of flooding

Ice chunks scattered through Wakamow Valley
Lisa Goudy/Times-Herald
Wakamow Valley is pictured on March 19, 2015.

By Lisa Goudy

“It was wild,” he said. “(Thursday) morning there was no flow in there at all and then all of a sudden, it got loose. It was underneath the bridge. The bridge was just rocking from the ice.”

He watched on the as a garbage can spun around and finally went under the bridge. He saw a picnic table floating in the water.

“I was there when the ice started breaking and pretty much left when it was done,” said Hofer, who said it took an hour and a half.

Now the biggest relics of the ice jam on the Moose Jaw River and flooding in Wakamow Valley are the huge ice chunks scattered in the valley.

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