The City of Winnipeg has cancelled its appeal for hundreds of volunteers to help lay sandbags on Good Friday.
Officials say the conditions have again changed, and it now looks like the once-imminent flooding is not so imminent.
The city had originally been looking for between 500 and 700 volunteers to sign up for sandbagging duties.
But in a release issued on Friday morning, the city said "it is no longer necessary to raise the level of the sandbag dikes at this time."
The city says the ice conditions on the Red River this year have "created a very dynamic situation for the river system."
Winnipeg Mayor Sam Katz has previously said the city is "taking all necessary precautions" to make sure that its residents -- and their homes -- are protected.
A handful of south Winnipeg homeowners have already been asked to temporarily leave because of the threat of ice jam-related flooding.
The evacuation was called after a buildup of ice caused water to spill over a local road.
Officials are watching the ice carefully this year, because it has not moved out as expected.
On Wednesday, Winnipeg opened its man-made floodway that diverts part of the river's flow around the city.
Officials said it was the earliest they had ever opened the floodway.
Jay Anderson, a meteorologist at the University of Manitoba, told Â鶹´«Ã½net Friday that southern Winnipeg appears to have been spared after a massive ice jam broke up.
Downstream, however, Anderson said that ice has jammed up into "a very ugly looking thing, and the river through the central part of the city really isn't moving on the surface at all."
As the temperature warms up in the region, the ice should continue to break up and Winnipeg should be through the worst of it, said Anderson.
But that means areas north of the city will have to deal with a torrent of icy Red River water, he said.
Manitoba Emergency Measures Minister Steve Ashton said that some communities in the province could still see some damage.
"I want to stress, though, that we're not out of this yet. There's a lot of areas in the province where we will still see flooding. The big difference is, compared to 48 hours ago, the banks of the operational floodway (are) in better shape than they were then."
Ashton added that the province will provide emergency assistance in the event of damage for residents.
With a report from CTV Winnipeg and files from The Canadian Press
