In downtown Baie-Saint-Paul, Que., about 95 kilometres northeast of Quebec City, a small office is bustling with activity as hundreds of volunteers show up to get assigned a task.
Days after severe spring flooding in the municipality washed away roads, submerged basements and forced more than 500 people from their homes, some 600 people have volunteered to help residents clean up the damage and save whatever possessions they can.
“The past few days have been very chaotic,” said Clément Turgeon Thériault, who assembled the volunteers and organized the cleanup after seeing how badly his father’s house had been damaged by the Monday flooding.
As general manager of the town’s
