— Montana authorities ordered the evacuation of 60 homes Tuesday as the rising Clark Fork River submerged a neighbourhood west of Missoula and potentially threatened hundreds of additional residences. The Missoula County Sheriff’s Office issued the evacuation order for the houses and trailers closest to the river in the Orchard Homes neighbourhood in the state’s second-largest city. Authorities have set up a shelter at a Missoula church and asked people who leave their homes to check in with the sheriff’s office. Just a day earlier, sheriff’s deputies went door to door in the neighbourhood to warn people of possible evacuations. If that happens, the flooding could affect at least 800 homes from eastern Missoula to west of the city where the Clark Fork meets the Bitterroot River.

Source: National Post May 08, 2018 23:15 UTC