Flooding, strong winds create ‘scary conditions’, shut down Manitoba highway
Global News
"The wind like this, we haven't experienced this during the flood time, so this can make for some pretty scary conditions," said egg farmer Harley Siemens.
Some residents in the RM of Morris were caught off guard Friday with strong winds gusting up to about 80 km/h, creating dangerous road conditions in some areas due to the worsening flood situation.
Winds gusting out of the south were hitting Provincial Road 205 head on. Waves were crashing over sections of the road, pushing debris up on and over.
A stretch of the highway between Provincial Trunk Highway 75 and PR 330 was closed to public traffic as of Friday afternoon.
A nearby resident who’s lived in the area for most of his life said the conditions changed quickly since Thursday.
“The wind like this, we haven’t experienced … this during the flood time, so this can make for some pretty scary conditions,” said Harley Siemens, an egg farmer who resides outside the ring dike on the south end of Rosenort.
“If anybody’s boating out there or even trying to get through the water, it’s very scary.”
About 10 to 12 inches flooded the road into his farm on Thursday, but the water rose another 10 inches by Friday morning, he said.
“We were at the farm this morning, and we saw the high winds were coming, so we kind of made the decision that us — me and my dad and our workers — we would leave the farm to come back inside the dike where it’s a little more safe,” Siemens said.
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