Floodwater soaks cemetery, highway near Souris

A highway just north of Souris is floodedafter a swollen creek backed up.

The water hasengulfed about 300 metres of the highway and flooded intoa cemetery as well asseveral properties.

Souris Mayor Darryl Jackson said the creek started to back upWednesday afternoon when a culvert was overwhelmed bythe amount of water from the creek.

Crews from the town rushed to sandbag two homes, saving them from the flooding, whileManitoba Hydro had to move equipment from a storage garage as water began to pour into it.

That building is the only one flooded as of Thursday.

Crews on Thursday wereusing pumps to move the water out of the area and Jackson saidthe level of flooding has receded since Wednesday.

However,he's worried about what will happen when warmer temperatures return andthe quick melt picks up once again.

Temperatures in southern Manitoba on Wednesday and Thursday dropped by about 12 to 14C from earlier in the week, slowing the melt.