https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/15/canada-floods-evacuation-wildfires-rain
Leyland Cecco in Toronto
Mon 15 Nov 2021 15.54 EST
Communities in western Canada who were forced to flee their homes this summer by wildfires and extreme heat are once again under evacuation orders after overwhelming floods across the region.
Helicopters were dispatched on Monday to Highway 7, more than 100 kilometres (62 miles) east of Vancouver, to rescue about 275 people, including 50 children, who had been stranded on the road since it was blocked by a mudslide late on Sunday.
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According to Environment Canada, 225 millimetres [8.8 inches] of rain fell on the community of Hope since the storm began Saturday and 180 millimetres [7 inches] had fallen around Agassiz and Chilliwack in the eastern part of the Fraser Valley.
After two bridges and its water treatment facility were overwhelmed by flood waters, the city of Merritt issued an evacuation order to all residents, warning that “continued habitation of the community without sanitary services presents risk of mass sewage back-up and personal health risk”.
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