Now everyone in America knows just how easy it is to get into Canada when they need to flee the Trumpocalypse.
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The event started at Port Hurons Lighthouse Beach and was supposed to end at Chrysler Beach in Marysville.
It happened late Sunday night in the St. Clair River close to Sarnia, Ontario. “Some people from the Tim Hortons came and they were even giving us coffee”.
“We had to pull a lot of people out of the water and say ‘no, ‘” he said.
Canadian authorities said Monday that the Coast Guard and police in Sarnia, in southwestern Ontario, had to rescue nearly 1,500 US citizens Sunday after their rafts, boats and inner tubes were blown ashore by high winds.
Some 1,500 Americans were riding along the St. Clair River on Sunday, which separates MI from Ontario, Canada, when heavy rains and winds deflated many of their rafts and inner tubes, Reuters reports.
“It’s something you do to get bragging rights”, floater Nancy Tatar reportedly said.
Port Huron Float Down’s Facebook page thanked Canadian authorities for their help and praised them as “amazing neighbors”.
“But it was part of, I guess, being a good neighbour and understanding if the police had taken a hard nose attitude toward people arriving here with alcohol and no ID, we would have had many, many other issues unfold”, says Bradley.
Remarkably, there were no charges laid, no missing persons reported, no arrests and no major injuries or drowning.
The rafters were rescued by the Canadian Coast Guard, border service, local and provincial police and employees of a local chemical company, Search and Rescue Superintendent Peter Garapick told CBC.
In it, he said: “We’re being towed back to the United States from Canada and we had a little accident, but we’re gonna get in”.
They say it took hours for a bus service to transport some 1,500 USA citizens back to MI.
We owe you one, Canada.
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Canadian officials spent over six hours and took 19 buses loaded with people back to the United States and dropped them at Customs and Border Protection.
