UPDATED: Mayor of Bracebridge declares state of emergency amid flooding
Bracebridge, about 150 kilometres north of Toronto, activated its emergency plan Tuesday afternoon after a number of local roads were washed out.
Smith was joined at the news conference by Premier Doug Ford, whose family has a cottage in the area. The Town of Bracebridge has said that water levels on the North Branch Muskoka River are expected to exceed levels reached in 2013, when the region saw its worst flooding in a century. "This is something way outside the normal margins. Unfortunately we thought 2013 was a hundred-year event, and here we are six years later," Smith said.
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