Friday’s storm washed away the only road residents from the community of Lac-Claude near Rawdon had, leaving them trapped for nearly three days.
“It had rained ridiculously hard for almost two days and the lake rose quite a bit. My dock was underwater. Docs were floating all over the place. And I thought, ‘What the hell! How are we going to get out of here?’” Christiane Hermanns, a resident of Lac-Claude, said in an interview.
Hermanns was one of a hundred residents stranded.
The only way the community had to get much-needed supplies like medicine and baby formula over the river was a pedal boat.
“It was scary. It was scary,” she said.
Fortunately for residents, the town of Rawdon built a temporary dirt road through private property, reconnecting the community of mostly seniors with the outside world.
“It’s not a real road but it’s perfect for now so the people can go into the village Emergencies. The firemen if something bad can happen,” the Deputy …