Scenes from the Ottawa-Gatineau flood

Tensions remain high in the Ottawa-Gatineau area as the Ottawa River approaches water levels surpassing those seen during the devastating 2017 floods.

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As the waters rise, residents have been filling sandbags, seeking shelter in community centres and in some cases, just doing their best to go about their daily lives.

These scenes from the past week show what it's been like to live through the second "hundred-year storm," as it's been called, in two years.