Up to 93 mm of rain fell in boiler-appalanches

Environnement Canada published a preliminary report on the rain fallen Thursday in the large region of Quebec. Between 38 and 93 millimeters of water were collected in the various stations on the north shore and the southern shore of the river.

This assessment is summary, warns the organization, and the data could still be revised. Nevertheless, Environment Canada publishes a fork of figures on this rain fallen into Less than two hours in the Capitale-Nationale region, especially in the Sainte-Foy district and Lévis.

A good part of the province was affected by the strip of thunderstorms. It’s a Hot front that crossed the Abitibi regions to the North Shorewhich caused all the damage observed after gusts and thunderstorms.

In the aftermath of this precipitation, no rivers in the region is at risk of overflow.

Many requests for firefighters

The fire safety service in the city of Lévis was very busy. He received more than 200 calls Thursday from residents affected by floods.

All in all, the quantities of water that have infiltrated the buildings, in the vast majority of cases, were not hugehowever, says its director, Réjean Pérusse.

Friday morning, a residence on rue Simard, in Lévis, was still threatened by a landslide. It didn’t move during the nightaccording to Mr. Pérusse. Its residents were still evacuated, in prevention, Thursday and taken care of by the Red Cross.

Teams from the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Public Security are on the ground on Friday to ensure that The landslide is stabilized and having the assurance that the building is safe for citizensspecifies the director of the City Fire Security Service.

Several streets still closed in Quebec

As in Lévis, the time is for the observation of damage in Quebec. Several streets remain closed to traffic on Friday. This is the case of Chemin du Foulon, between the Sillery coast and the coast in Gignac, and avenue Belvédère, between Chemin Sainte-Foy and the Côte de la Pente-Douce.

On the coast of the Pente-Douce, precisely, traffic remains limited to a track in each direction. We know that she was strongly damaged. So today, people in public works are evaluating the damagesays François Moisan, director of public relations at Quebec City.

In total, around twenty residents, most of whom live on the Foulon path in Sillery, were evacuated Thursday due to the floods. About 25 % [des sinistrés] were able to reintegrate their houseassures Mr. Moisan. A command post was established in this sector to answer questions from affected citizens.

The emergency services of Quebec City received nearly 160 calls Thursday in connection with floods.