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Looking west from over the Hydro plant in Brandon, the now-evacuated Green Spot is in the foreground, with the railway bridge in the RM of Cornwallis at the extreme bottom-right of the photo.Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press
Looking west over Brandon, with the now-evacuated Green Spot greenhouses the prominent white buildings.Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press
The pedestrian bridge remains dry in Brandon -- barely -- as the Assiniboine River rises around it.Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press
A brand-new earthen dike, hastily topped with sandbags and aqua dams, continues to keep out the Assiniboine waters from the residents of Kasiurak Bay.Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press
Work continues to shore up First Street North dikes and to repair the road itself. Officials say it's possible the road could open to limited traffic within the week.Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press
Homes threatened by the rising Assiniboine near Brandon.Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press
An oil slick soils the river's surface near this heavily sandbagged home.Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press
The vehicles are flooded, but the house stays dry, as waters rise around the sandbag wall.Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press
Water from the Portage Diversion spills into Lake Manitoba.Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press
Water from the Portage Diversion spills into Lake Manitoba.Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press
Water from the Portage Diversion overflows its banks spilling into fields west of the diversion close to Lake Manitoba.Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press
Water from the Portage Diversion overflows its banks spilling into fields west of the diversion close to Lake Manitoba.Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press
Water from the Portage Diversion just flows under the Highway 227 bridge.Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press
Construction at the staging gates of the Portage Diversion at rural road 71 N close to Lake Manitoba.Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press
Construction at the staging gates of the Portage Diversion at rural road 71 N close to Lake Manitoba.Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press
The three Shoal Lakes have essentially merged into one large lake just east of Lake Manitoba, overflowing their banks and flooding surrounding roads and farmlands.Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press
A road disappears into the merged Shoal Lakes, in the Interlake.Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press
Little remains to mark what is normally dry land in the flooded Shoal Lakes.Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press
The banks of a three Shoal Lakes, merged into one, lap ever higher in the Interlake region.Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press
The three Shoal Lakes have essentially merged into one large lake just east of Lake Manitoba.The three Shoal Lakes have essentially merged into one large lake just east of Lake Manitoba overflowing its banks and flooding surrounding roads and farmlands.The three Shoal Lakes have essentially merged into one large lake just east of Lake Manitoba overflowing its banks and flooding surrounding roads and farmlands.
