FOG BLOG CANADA NEWS LOG: FORT SIMPSON NWT FLOODING:

700 people in Fort Simpson, N.W.T., displaced by flood, mayor says.....'There's basically people all over the place,' Mayor Sean Whelly said on Monday morning......An estimated 700 people have been displaced from their homes in Fort Simpson, N.W.T., the mayor said Monday morning, after the community of about 1,200 was flooded during seasonal ice breakup over the weekend.

"There's basically people all over the place," Mayor Sean Whelly told CBC Radio's The Trailbreaker.

"They're down the highway, some of them with motorhomes, camps — setting up a bush camp, and things like that."

He said other residents have gone to stay with relatives or friends.

A final evacuation order was issued in Fort Simpson at about 3 p.m. on Sunday. Whelly said that about 60 people had stayed in the community after the evacuation, but most then left when the power went out.

He said the Mackenzie River level on Monday morning was at about 15 metres, the threshold for a general evacuation, and about the same as it had been on Sunday night. Roads in the community are underwater, he said, and some houses have been "inundated" by water.