New Brunswick Underwater

In April 2018, New Brunswick's famous Reversing Falls simply stopped reversing as the Saint John river flood caused the worst flooding on the river in more than 50 years.

At its height, more than 300,000 cubic feet per second of water raced through the Mactaquac dam just above Frederictoion, 3.5 times more water than normal. When the waters finally receded two weeks later, cottages had been floated away, homes and cars were underwater, and hundreds of people has been displaced. Lisa Hrabluk tells the story in words and images of the volunteers, evacuees, and first repsonders who raced the rising river to save their communities.