Nervous homeowners watch rivers rise as rain feeds spring floodwaters

From her bedroom window, Gatineau’s Sylvie Goneau watched with a familiar sense of foreboding Friday as the swollen Ottawa River massed for a land invasion.
“It’s grey, cold and scary,” she said of the scene.
Goneau lost her family home on Hurtubise Boulevard during the 2017 spring flood; her rebuilt home, although closer to the river itself, is 2.7 metres higher than the one that was inundated.
“We’re pretty confident it’s high enough, but this will be