Edmonton – The Alberta Emergency Management Agency is providing information on the provincial response to the flooding in southern Alberta.
The agency is speaking to the media at 9 a.m.
65,000 Calgary residents have been allowed back into their homes. All Calgary schools remain closed and parts of the downtown core are still submerged.
Calgary police have confirmed the death of an 88-year-old woman. The elderly woman’s body was found Sunday in water on the first floor of the apartment building she lived in.
Meanwhile, the community of High River is still a disaster zone. It appears residents will not be able to return for days.
Floodwatchers in the south eastern city of Medicine Hat believe water levels on the South Saskatchewan River have peaked and flooding won’t be as severe as initially feared.
The water has managed to top sandbag barriers in some areas of the city and there has been flooding in some neighbourhoods, but other defences remain dry.
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