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Digital Archives | Mar 14, 1997 | 2:14

Red River Rising: Snowy Manitoba winter, dangerous thaw

Heavy snows this winter spell danger. Seventy-two-year-old farmer Ted Sabourin predicts the biggest flood in living memory.

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