Manitoba was dealing with two floods a year ago.
First, the Red River flooded after months of anticipation, swamping farmland and farms and partially cutting off towns.
Then weeks later, with much less warning, the Assiniboine and Souris rivers began swelling and spilling, creating panic and massive disruption for hundreds of kilometres throughout rural Manitoba.
The Red River flood passed quickly but the others had a bigger impact and idled much farmland for the summer.
The situation is much different a year later, with both the Red and Assiniboine valleys drying more quickly than normal.
As these pictures show, the situation couldn’t look more different.
