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<DIV>On may 23, strong winds up to 80 km/h pushed rapidly Lake Champlain water
in Richelieu river. For the second time in a month, a high level record have
been registered in Lake Champlain and Richelieu river basin. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>My city and a total of 18 cities are principally affected. No severe
injuries are registered, but people are fighthing to save there houses. Many
people are fragile and severely affected of a month long of fighting with nature
elements. Many retired persons and low level revenu persons are living in this
area. Exhausted volunteers are building dikes around homes. Tension and
frustration is becoming high among affected people. Many have already lost there
houses. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The next steps (cleaning, repairs) will bring thousand of people in
affected zones. SOS-Richelieu, a Volunteers organization in wich I am
involved (http://sosrichelieu.com/ ) , is requesting Indexed maps of
streets of the affected zones. HOT Team and OSM mappers can help by assuring
these maps be available rapidly.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>If it was possible, the best would be to use a tool such as Mapsomatic
to produce Indexed street maps for a specific zone delimited by a boundary
relation. We do not want to produce a map a all a city but only of
flooded zones. If you have any idea in how to do so, your comments would be
appreciated.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I started a wiki page at <A
href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2011_Richelieu_river_flooding">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2011_Richelieu_river_flooding</A>
</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I also started to roughly draw affected zones using the following
tags.</DIV>
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<LI>natural=wetland </LI>
<LI>damage=flooded </LI>
<LI>note=temporary; richelieu river flooding may 2011 </LI></UL>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>For the time being, this is a draw of the affected zone. But is enough to
see in wich areas, the street names should be added.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I should obtain soon detailed maps produced by cities of affected zones and
will then modify the map in consequence.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Regards,</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#c0c0c0 size=2 face=Verdana><FONT color=#000080><FONT
color=#000080><EM><SPAN>Pierre Béland</SPAN></EM></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=2
face=Verdana><EM>Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu</EM></FONT></DIV></FONT></FONT></DIV></FONT></FONT></BODY></HTML>