I work for a construction equipment rental company and I have lots of customers on job sites downtown. Speaking with them about what they have been told today I would say that they will not even be able to begin pumping water downtown until Tuesday at the earliest.
We are bringing in pumping equipment from Eastern Canada and the USA to help with the clean up but until the river has receded significantly and the city has a proper way to drain the water and deal with the contamination. Some of these job sites have large equipment, debris and even fuel storage tanks that are completely under water. I would say downtown will be crippled until at least Wednesday-Thursday.
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