Canada’s emergency preparedness minister is returning to the epicentre of flooding that devastated British Columbia’s Fraser Valley in November 2021.
Bill Blair, together with B.C. Minister of Emergency Management Bowinn Ma and Abbotsford Mayor Ross Siemens, is ready to participate in an announcement right this moment on federal catastrophe restoration funding for the province.
A collection of atmospheric rivers washed over southern B.C. over three days in mid-November 2021, triggering flooding that inundated farmland and killed hundreds of animals.
Five individuals died when a mudslide washed over Highway 99 north of Pemberton, and on the peak of the flooding, 15,000 individuals have been evacuated from their houses.
The rains swelled quite a few rivers, which washed away bridges and stretches of freeway, chopping off the Lower Mainland from the remainder of the nation.
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The Insurance Bureau of Canada estimated the price of insured flood injury was at the very least $450 million, making it the most costly catastrophe within the province’s historical past.
