Property owners threatened by floodwaters in eastern Manitoba prepare to stay despite evacuation order

Resort owner Amy Vereb says she will be one of many people in the Whiteshell staying behind to protect their properties from rising floodwaters after an expanded evacuation order goes into effect Tuesday. 

“There’s lots of us out here that this is all we have, and I just don’t think that people realize that,” said Vereb, who owns Otter Falls Resort.

“This isn’t just cottage country.”

The evacuation order for the northern part of Whiteshell Provincial Park in eastern Manitoba is expanding at 5 p.m. Tuesday.

Vereb has watched Margaret Lake rise from the beach to within a few feet of the door of her