About 30 residences have been evacuated in parts of Pierrefonds and Île Bizard in Montreal's West Island area due to heavy street flooding that began late last night and continued into Wednesday. A dozen West Island streets were covered by water several centimetres deep. Flooding slams West IslandMartin Guilbault, chief of operations for the Montreal Fire Department, said the about 30 residences in the flood zone in Montreal's West Island had to be evacuated because water was approaching their fuse boxes. Coderre said there is a bus ready to transport residents off the island if an evacuation order is necessary. Paola Hawa, the mayor of Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, told CBC about 140 homes in that community are at risk from flooding.

Source: CBC News May 03, 2017 10:35 UTC