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Residents of Saint-Louis Street in Gatineau are finding out that life after a flood involves a lot of wondering and waiting, but not many answers.
Frank Toutloff still isn’t able to move back into his house, which was flooded, and was at a complete loss to say what will happen next.
“I’m still waiting to hear from the insurance adjuster,” he said. “I don’t know when he’s going to call.”
Could it happen this week sometime? he was asked.
“I don’t know. I hope so.”
The basement is a mess, he said: The floor has lifted, and the floodwaters brought contamination. The home is nowhere near a condition where he could safely move back in, and he doesn’t know what it will take or how long the wait will be.
Along the street, Diane Bourrée is approaching retirement as she nears her 64th birthday.
She told Postmedia photographer Tony Caldwell she can’t believe how the flood has turned her life upside down so close to retirement.
Diane Bourree takes a rest on her belongings outside her Rue Saint-Louis house in Gatineau Monday May 15, 2017. Diane, who is almost 64, never thought she would ever be in this situation so close to retirement.
Meanwhile, as the cleanup continues:
• Many Gatineau streets and some in Ottawa remain closed.
In Gatineau these include Saint-Louis for a section south of Highway 50, as well as parts or all of Oscar, René, Saint François Xavier, Ernest Charron, Blais and Corriveau Streets, all just east of the Gatineau River.
Farther east, sections of Glaude Street and Hurtubise Boulevard are closed.
• Gatineau is recommending that flooded residents not re-use soiled sandbags. The sand may have been contaminated. Gatineau will be picking them up. Canadian Forces troops are already helping with this, and the city will remove bags from flooded private property, using the sand for backfill later.
• Fournier Boulevard, a low-lying street that crosses the Gatineau River near Lac Leamy, is paved again. It had been hastily re-engineered with gravel to raise it above the floodwaters. The city says it’s now solid, and was covered Monday night with fresh asphalt.
• Beginning Tuesday, there will be special collections for construction and demolition waste in sections of Gatineau areas where streets are no longer flooded and have been secured by municipal services.
Flooded residents are asked to separate construction and demolition debris from sandbags and household waste. The debris will have to be placed on the inside of the property edge and not on the street or sidewalk. Information concerning special collections for bulky metal refuse will be announced shortly.
The city is also putting out refuse containers for ordinary household waste at points in the flooded area including the corner of Saint Louis and Moreau Streets. The full list is here.
• Ottawa still has closed streets, mainly near the edge of the Ottawa River, such as the north end of Trim Road, Boisé Lane, and Bayview Drive and streets near it in Constance Bay. The full list is here.
• The “barometer car” is gone from Saint-Louis Street in Gatineau. The grey sedan was cut off by the water and finally covered as the waters rose. Someone put an orange traffic cone on its roof so that boat operators would avoid it once it was submerged. The city has now towed it.
The ‘barometer car’ is finally free.
• As of Tuesday morning, the Ottawa River had dropped by 1.35 metres, or more than four feet, since the peak of the flood.
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Frank Toutloff still isn’t able to move back into his house, which was flooded, and was at a complete loss to say what will happen next.
“I’m still waiting to hear from the insurance adjuster,” he said. “I don’t know when he’s going to call.”
Could it happen this week sometime? he was asked.
“I don’t know. I hope so.”
The basement is a mess, he said: The floor has lifted, and the floodwaters brought contamination. The home is nowhere near a condition where he could safely move back in, and he doesn’t know what it will take or how long the wait will be.
Along the street, Diane Bourrée is approaching retirement as she nears her 64th birthday.
She told Postmedia photographer Tony Caldwell she can’t believe how the flood has turned her life upside down so close to retirement.
Diane Bourree takes a rest on her belongings outside her Rue Saint-Louis house in Gatineau Monday May 15, 2017. Diane, who is almost 64, never thought she would ever be in this situation so close to retirement.
Meanwhile, as the cleanup continues:
• Many Gatineau streets and some in Ottawa remain closed.
In Gatineau these include Saint-Louis for a section south of Highway 50, as well as parts or all of Oscar, René, Saint François Xavier, Ernest Charron, Blais and Corriveau Streets, all just east of the Gatineau River.
Farther east, sections of Glaude Street and Hurtubise Boulevard are closed.
• Gatineau is recommending that flooded residents not re-use soiled sandbags. The sand may have been contaminated. Gatineau will be picking them up. Canadian Forces troops are already helping with this, and the city will remove bags from flooded private property, using the sand for backfill later.
• Fournier Boulevard, a low-lying street that crosses the Gatineau River near Lac Leamy, is paved again. It had been hastily re-engineered with gravel to raise it above the floodwaters. The city says it’s now solid, and was covered Monday night with fresh asphalt.
• Beginning Tuesday, there will be special collections for construction and demolition waste in sections of Gatineau areas where streets are no longer flooded and have been secured by municipal services.
Flooded residents are asked to separate construction and demolition debris from sandbags and household waste. The debris will have to be placed on the inside of the property edge and not on the street or sidewalk. Information concerning special collections for bulky metal refuse will be announced shortly.
The city is also putting out refuse containers for ordinary household waste at points in the flooded area including the corner of Saint Louis and Moreau Streets. The full list is here.
• Ottawa still has closed streets, mainly near the edge of the Ottawa River, such as the north end of Trim Road, Boisé Lane, and Bayview Drive and streets near it in Constance Bay. The full list is here.
• The “barometer car” is gone from Saint-Louis Street in Gatineau. The grey sedan was cut off by the water and finally covered as the waters rose. Someone put an orange traffic cone on its roof so that boat operators would avoid it once it was submerged. The city has now towed it.
The ‘barometer car’ is finally free.
• As of Tuesday morning, the Ottawa River had dropped by 1.35 metres, or more than four feet, since the peak of the flood.
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