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5/21/2013
The death toll is expected to rise today after that massive tornado in Oklahoma.
(Photo from @Bryan_Bedford on Twitter. Captioned: Oklahoma tornado photo from my neighborhood. #okwx #PrayForOklahoma)
Stormchaser Dave Carlsen saw the storm first hand from Ada, Oklahoma. He tells CJOB the scariest thing was how quickly it developed.
"Usually the storms in Oklahoma, especially, take a while to develop. But this one, the cloud went up and maybe ten minutes later, there was a tornado on the ground."
The storm was nearly 800 miles wide and turned entire neighbourhoods to rubble.
24 people - including 7 children - are confirmed dead but officials say the death toll will likely rise.
LISTEN: Hal Anderson's full interview with Dave Carlesen:
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5/21/2013
Many Manitoba farmers were making pretty good progress seeding... up until the weekend rain.
In its latest crop report, Manitoba Agriculture says the most progress in the Southwest Region was along and north of the Trans-Canada Highway.
About 45% of the wheat crop is now in the ground in the Northwest. Reseeding may be required in the Central Region where the wind last Tuesday gusted up to 90 km/h.
Fertilizer spreading on winter wheat acres was finished last week in the East. The majority of corn and cereal crops were seeded in South Interlake.
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5/21/2013
With all that weekend rain, a flood watch has been issued for the Roseau River.
But down in the south east we're told most of that river is far from breaking its banks.
A similar flood watch has been posted for some Red River tributaries which include, Dead Horse Creek, Riviere aux Marais, Buffalo Creek and Boyne River.
Locals monitored the rising waters last night, but at this point no sandbagging or evacuations are necessary.
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5/21/2013
Winnipeg Police say the 18-year old man whose car ended up in a retention pond Tuesday morning near Dalhousie and Pembina has died.
Emergency personnel were called around 6:30. He was taken to hospital in critical condition, and later died of his injuries. Police say it's not a criminal matter. His name won't be released.
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5/21/2013
The numbers are in - RCMP stopped 43 drivers in Manitoba and charged them with impaired driving over the last week.
In connection with MPI and other police services the RCMP ran a number of checkstops between the 13th and the 20th. The overall number of impaired driving charges is down just a little from the same campaign last year.
An additional 1,300 tickets were written for other road violations - more than half of which were for speeding.
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5/21/2013
Thorhnill, Manitoba - southwest of Winnipeg - appears to have received the highest amount of rain over the long weekend.
Lorraine Nickel of Global News tells CJOB it poured for three straight days:
"Folks out there have been receiving up to eight inches, so about 200 millimetres. That's more than what even Environment Canada recorded. They don't actually have someone in Thornhill to give them a reading, so the highest reading they had was for Deerwood, which isn't far from Thornhill."
Deerwood got 101 millimetres.
Environment Canada Meteorologist Colin Tam says things will dry up over the next few days.
"Gradual clearing today and then it should be mainly sunny and dry for the next few days."
Winnipeg had about 20 mm of rain this weekend - 24 mm measured at The Forks, 18 at the airport.
Gimli and Dauphin didn't have any rain at all.
Chuck Fossay, a farmer near Starbuck, says the rain was a mixed blessing for farmers:
"The crop that you have in the ground, the stuff that you've seeded - they enjoy this good soaking rain, but at the same time it's going to keep us off the fields for another two or three days, ...
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