Attawapiskat residents were evacuated during flood conditions in May 2009.
Due to ongoing flood conditions, there was an outbreak of dysentery that killed two children.
While hospitals have contingency plans, they are not prepared to operate in extensive and prolonged flood conditions.
In almost all cases this is not a practical concern, since the waterway would be non-navigable except during flood conditions anyway.
This is especially important during flood conditions when the highly increased flow have altered the normal conditions drastically.
In extreme flood conditions the entire cave can flood to the roof.
The status of the rivers next to populations affects population size; the plant numbers may decrease during flood conditions and then increase the following year.
The following are important points to remember when driving in flood conditions:
Brochure describing the hazards of driving your vehicle in flood conditions.
During flood conditions, many of the population would be washed further downstream, to be replaced by others from the lakes.