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Floating furniture and local state of emergency as rain pounds B.C.’s coast
A series of atmospheric rivers has caused flooding and landslide threats, prompting evacuation orders in Martin Valley, with over 120 mm of rain reported since Sunday, officials said.
- On Tuesday the Central Coast Regional District issued a state of local emergency for Martin Valley, ordering some residents to leave immediately and placing dozens more under evacuation alert with a specific route from Fifth to Front Street.
- Environment Canada warned that a prolonged series of atmospheric rivers is delivering heavy rain to Vancouver Island, the Fraser Valley and Metro Vancouver tributaries, with rising freezing levels to 2,500 metres melting snowpack and increasing flood risk.
- On-Site footage shows furniture floating in a flooded basement and waterfalls cascading down stairs, while flooding has damaged at least two of approximately 40 homes and local infrastructure near Ocean Falls.
- Evacuees are gathering at the Old Bank Inn evacuation centre in Ocean Falls, while the BC River Forecast Centre downgraded a flood watch to a high streamflow advisory and Sasquatch Mountain ski resort will remain closed until Friday.
- Authorities said professional advice recommended the evacuation because the level of life‑safety risk was unknown, and the Ministry of Forests hired a helicopter from the ministry for slope assessment, though weather may prevent the flight.
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Floating furniture and local state of emergency as rain pounds B.C.'s coast
Les Martson said he could see furniture floating in the basement of a friend's home when he surveyed the site of flooding near Ocean Falls, B.C., along the province's central coast.
Community under state of emergency as rain pounds B.C.'s coast
Les Martson said he could see furniture floating in the basement of a friend’s home when he surveyed the site of flooding near Ocean Falls, B.C., along the province’s central coast. Martson said Wednesday that the pounding B.C.’s Central Coast has taken from a series of atmospheric rivers is the worst he can remember. The […]
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