These areas in BC fought a summer of devastating fires and now are faced with floods.
Has to be something biblical here right Rip? Locusts next?
B.C. flood update: One woman dead from mudslide near Lillooet | More than 1,200 trapped in Hope | Sumas Prairie, Yarrow under evacuation order | 20 rainfall records set
An “atmospheric river” hit southern B.C. on Sunday and Monday, dumping huge amounts of rain across the region and causing widespread flooding, mudslides and rockslides.
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Here’s a look at some numbers:
• 275 people, including 50 children: number of people who were trapped between two landslides on Highway 7.
• 225 mm: rain measured in Hope, since a storm began Saturday.
• 344 mm: average rainfall for the entire month of November in Hope.
• 250 mm: rainfall predicted for the eastern Fraser Valley by Monday.
• 7,000: estimated number of people evacuated from Merritt, due to rising Coldwater River.
• 3.1 metres: estimated height of the Coldwater River.
• 24: estimated number of closures on B.C. highways due to rock or mudslides and flooding.
• Up to 50 cm: amount of snow predicted for the East Columbia, Kinbasket and Yellowhead regions because of the same Pacific frontal system hitting the south coast.
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