Angry Waters Spring Floods Hit Texas And Canada
Angry Waters Spring Floods Hit Texas And Canada
Raging floods cover a wide area of North America from the Gulf Coast to Canada. Torrential rains batter the Dallas - Fort Worth area inflicting death and damage in the millions. In Canada, their latest anti-flood tool is plastic "wrapping" for houses and dikes. Texas: Cars at a stop sign as torrential rains pour down. Passenger looks through working windshield wipers at a flooding street. Cars drive down a semi-flooded street past a older house. Several shots of raging rivers that have overflowed their banks. High winds whip the trees back and forth as a single water marker shows that the river has risen 5 1/2 feet above flood level. A still street turned lake with a lonely dog sitting on a porch looking for its owner. A young African American boy swims down a street. Entire blocks are damaged from the flooding. In the downtown area light traffic moves in the rain. A gutter on the side of a brick building gushes water at the bottom and from a crack at the top. Trees are uprooted knocking over power lines to homes. CU of a cracked telephone pole base. Canada: Aerial shot of a flooded town. Homes are surrounded by flood water. The Red River completely floods over a bridge. Half of a Speed limit 30 sign is seen. Eight people in a fishing boat being taken to safety. In a small Winnipeg Canadian town people prepared for the storm by wrapping their homes in polyurethane plastic wrap and black garbage bags. One small home that has been lifted off its foundation by the water and is resting on its side. National Guard and Residents pile up sand bags also covered in plastic wrap to try to keep water out of their homes. Ground to Air shot of helicopter surveying the town. Aerial of the town in the process of building future flood water diversion routes.