PORT HURON, Mich. — Canadian authorities stopped an invasion this weekend: 1,500 people on inflatable rafts and boats that drifted across the border from Michigan during high winds on the St. Clair River. The individuals were participating in the Port Huron Float Down, an annual event on the river that divides Michigan from Ontario. They say it took hours for a bus service to transport approximately 1,500 U.S. citizens back to Michigan. Sarnia city workers spent several hours Monday picking up beer cans, coolers, rafts — even picnic tables — that washed up on the Canadian shore, said spokeswoman Katarina Ovens. “I guess they were on the rafts,” she said of the picnic tables.

Source: National Post August 22, 2016 17:37 UTC