ARMY AID TRUCK HITS DITCH – TWICE – CLAIMS NEIGHBOUR

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com

BRACEBRIDGE — Military’s might was apparently no match for Mother Nature.

A 10-ton Canadian Armed Forces truck delivering aid to flood victims on Golden Beach Road Monday lumbered off the road.

And it was listing quite bit, said a witness who thought it might tip over — even after soldiers disembarked out back of the hulking big green canopy-covered troop transport truck.

And it may have been the second time, too, according to a woman who lives on the road.

She added Tuesday that one of the troops said it wasn’t the first time.

“It happened the day before, too,” she quoted the soldier as saying, referring to Sunday, the day they began arriving.

She said she took pictures, but with an old film camera.

Meanwhile, some of those 100 reservists from Toronto who have been deployed to the Fowler Construction works yard and been quickly doing sand bag duty (reportedly filling 16,000 bags a day) were out at the hard-hit Beaumont Farm Tuesday morning on the Muskoka River.

They were called in by the town Saturday and arrived a day later.

To the relief of some people in town, who are near water and desperate for sand bags to save their homes from further flooding.