Flooding in Quebec's Eastern Townships on Saturday has forced at least 50 people from their homes.
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A front-end loader was used to help some people move through the floodwaters in the city of Cowansville, about 100 kilometres southeast of Montreal, early in the day.
"It's been quite a morning," CBC News reporter Karine Bastien reported from Cowansville.
"Right now firefighters are still evacuating people from their homes," she said.
"The people who have been evacuated are staying with family or in a hotel."
Overflows banks
More than 200 people may have to leave their homes after the Yamaska River overflowed its banks overnight.
Emergency workers started going door to door around 4 a.m. local time, asking people to evacuate flooded areas and using equipment including front-end loaders to move people through the rising waters.
"They're using sandbags and you can see people helping each other," Bastien said.
The Eastern Townships have received about 140 millimetres of rain since the beginning of May.