"FREDERICTON — Flood waters continued to rise Thursday along the St. John River in New Brunswick, flooding basements, closing roads and crippling parts of the provincial capital.
Emergency officials said 460 families had registered with the Red Cross and evacuated their residences, and up to 1,300 homes were threatened by the river, which at points looked like a sprawling lake."
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"Schools, businesses and more than 50 roads were closed or partially blocked in the capital city and the surrounding area.
Across the street from the legislature, the landmark Lord Beaverbrook Hotel was evacuated Wednesday, and the Beaverbrook Art Gallery — home to masterpieces by Salvador Dali, Botticelli and Gainsborough — has moved artworks up from the basement."
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"Karl Wilmot, a spokesman for the Emergency Measures Organization, said reports of flooded basements and road closures are coming in from all along the river, which winds from northern New Brunswick to the Bay of Fundy in the south — a 673-kilometre journey.
“It’s the same story from one community to the next, just with different levels of water and the misery it’s causing,” said Wilmot. "
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