A Manitoba family was spending Christmas in a hotel in Brandon after flooding on the Assiniboine River inundated their basement.
Rae Gelineau, her husband and their two-year-old twins have been living out of the Canad Inns for the past 2½ weeks. The flooding forced her parents out of their trailer on the same property in the rural municipality of Cornwallis.
"It's probably the most difficult thing I've ever gone through. Like, we're all run down. It's extremely stressful," Gelineau said.
"I just want to go home. It doesn't feel like Christmas.... It's hard for me to look around and see all the Christmas decorations everywhere because it doesn't feel like Christmas."
Gelineau said the hardest part of her family's ordeal is that she had planned to have relatives at her farmhouse for the holiday, but instead she won't see them at all.
Now she's worried about whether she'll even have a house to go back to. Gelineau met Friday afternoon with Cornwallis officials, who were inspecting flood conditions and determining whether the family can return to their homes in January.
Ice jams on the Assiniboine caused the river to overwhelm its banks in early December, prompting an official state of emergency in Cornwallis.
The flooding submerged parts of Rae's farmyards and pushed ice up against her home. She estimated that at its peak, about half her 40 hectares were under water.
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