Yellowknife residents are crossing their fingers that tomorrow s scheduled lifting of a general evacuation order will go ahead as planned and they ll be allowed to return home.
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The shelves have been filled with food at the Yellowknife Co-op and the grocery store is preparing for tens of thousands of people to return as an evacuation order is scheduled to be lifted Wednesday.
The City of Yellowknife did not have a concrete, public plan for a full-scale evacuation of the city before it was forced to put one into action last month.