The province said Thursday SaskPower is releasing "record high flows" from reservoirs along river and Mathias Colomb Cree Nation, Granville Lake and Leaf Rapids should prepare for high water.

The Water Security Agency and the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency are working with at-risk communities to implement flood mitigation measures.

Across the country, about 3.6 million people were advised to evacuate, although evacuation is not mandatory and the number of people who actually took shelter was not provided.

Army troops and other rescuers worked their way through mud and debris along the flooded Kuma River, where many houses and buildings were submerged nearly to their roofs.

Helicopters and boats rescued more people from their homes in the Kumamoto region.

Over the span of three days this week, some areas in southwest and western Manitoba received more than 200 mm of precipitation.

More than 75,000 residents in the southern prefectures of Kumamoto and Kagoshima were asked to evacuate following pounding rains overnight.

DriveBC is reporting that the highway was reopened to single-lane, alternating traffic just before 9:30 a.m., on Friday.

No estimated time of reopening has been released and DriveBC says the next update will be around noon.

The Town of Minnedosa and the surrounding RM of Minto-Odanah have declared states of emergency after being hammered with heavy rain.