Search for those swept away by Ontario floodwaters during storm comes up empty
A man in his 50s and his teenage grandson paddle their kayaks in the water near St. Clair
The boy says he doesn’t know how he’ll face the storm.
“I don’t know if I have a kayak or not. And I don’t know what I’m gonna do. It’s really scary,” says the 17-year-old.
The two young paddlers came upon a body this morning, face down in the water, just six kilometres from shore in a flooded neighborhood of St. Clair, Ont.
At first they thought the body was a deer, but then the man’s legs and arms came into view.
“I knew right away it was someone in the water. As I was turning around, my grandfather said ‘Don’t turn around. The body, it’s still in the water.’”
The boy says they were fortunate: the only two people alive in the neighborhood were in an upstairs room, trapped by the rising water.
The two young paddlers came upon a body this morning, face down in the water, just six kilometres from shore in a flooded neighborhood of St. Clair, Ont.
“As I was turning around, my grandfather said: ‘Don’t turn around, the body, it’s still in the water,’” 17-year-old Ryan Wescott explains. The two young paddlers came upon a body this morning, face down in the water, just six kilometres from shore in a flooded neighborhood of St. Clair, Ont. “As I was turning around, my grandfather said: ‘Don’t turn around, the body, it’s still in the water,’” 17-