2023-07-02 02:10:18
Hundreds of people were stuck in Parc national du Fjord-du-Saguenay on Saturday due to several road collapses caused by bad weather.
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While 137 of them were evacuated by boat, a hundred were still in the park on Saturday evening, mainly on campsites.
The state of the roadway preventing the authorities from picking them up by land, they were evaluating their options on Saturday evening and were considering using helicopters.
In an interview with TVA Nouvelles, Dany Boudreault, a resident of the area, recounted the time when he and his spouse got stuck in Rivière-Éternité.
“It was quite catastrophic. At the time of the events, when I went to join my wife who was arriving by motorbike from L’Anse-Saint-Jean, she called me and said, ”Honey, can you come and bring me some dry laundry? I am completely wet, as if I were in a swimming pool,” he mentioned.
“It was the flood. It was like a car wash. It didn’t make sense! I was scared at one point,” added Mr. Boudreault.
After picking up his wife, he went to the grocery store in the village of Rivière-Éternité, where he waited for the precipitation to calm down. However, it was at this time that the authorities closed the road, causing panic among motorists.
“There were a lot of people coming. The world was on the four turn signals, the world was parked on the side of the road. It was not pleasant. We mightn’t see anything, ”claims Dany Boudreault.
“We were prisoners. We might no longer move, as much towards L’Anse-Saint-Jean as towards Saint-Félix. We mightn’t do anything anymore, we were cut off from the world, ”he adds.
To see the full interview, watch the video above.
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