'We just hope this makes a difference': Volunteers spend Easter packing sandbags in Ottawa

Pierre Grandbois spent the last three days preparing his grandparents’ two-storey home in Crystal Bay for the worst, the memory of the 2017 flood that struck the National Capital Region still fresh in his mind. His grandparents, who winter in Florida, are driving back to Ontario now, and he wants them to return to a home above water.
Back in 2017 the basement of the home flooded with five feet of water causing about $30,000 in electrical damage. Grandbois is determined to not let that happ