Flood-displaced elder yearns to go home to Jean Marie River
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In Laura Sanguez's once-beautiful Jean Marie River home, peeling linoleum and overturned furniture show how much damage floodwaters caused this summer.
In May, the First Nation community was one of many where residents were forced to evacuate as the Mackenzie River thundered in.
Sanguez's home was destroyed by water that rose three-quarters of the way up the walls, consuming her possessions and forcing her out of the community she'd lived in her whole life.
Sanguez is now staying at the long-term care facility in Fort Simpson, where she recently celebrated her 83rd birthday. She told CBC News she cried for days when she left Jean Marie River.
"I would like to have a home to go to. My home is gone. My kids – it's not for me, it's for my kids, something to go to. Every year they go to my birthday, Christmas, they all go there. I would like to have a home for them," she said.
The Northwest Territories government stepped in to cover the costs of replacement homes for residents who didn't have flood insurance. But Sanguez and her family say they haven't received any updates on the status of her home, or whether she is getting a replacement.
It's a continuation of the silence she says she has experienced since the flood swept through.
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