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[dennisK]

I hope our friends south of the border are ok. I just read a lot Bellingham was under water too.

https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/article255860436.html

[CohoJake]

I hope our friends south of the border are ok. I just read a lot Bellingham was under water too.

https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/article255860436.html

Nooksack and Everson got hit the worst, also Lynden, Ferndale and of course Sumas. My dad in Nooksack was about 1 inch from having water above the carpet - I'll be heading out there later to help with cleanup. I was nearly trapped south of Bellingham on Monday when I-5 was closed both directions due to mudslides, but apparently I knew the way around that nobody else was aware of.

[Novabonker]

I have a background in water damage restoration and this is beyond the scope of anything I've ever seen. There's going to be a ton of remediation work and just on the structural drying alone and I highly doubt there's enough equipment or qualified technicians to handle this. If the buildings don't get serviced in the appropriate time window, mould will be an issue as long as there's a food source for it to feed on and produce mycotoxins. The aftermath is going to be bad too. Between the toxicity of what we were dealing with and the 20 hour shifts, I pulled the plug and started a business.

Everybody should prepare for a steep rise in your home insurance premiums whether or not you got hit. The insurance companies like to share the pain.

[wildmanyeah]

A friend that was stuck in hwy7 and then got stuck I. Hope paid a boat 250 bucks to get him from hope to chilliwack

[clarki]

https://www.theprogress.com/news/jet-boat-rides-on-offer-for-those-cut-off-from-communities-in-eastern-fraser-valley/
Some fishing guides were offering free rides today.

Well done boys!

[alindsey]

Very impressed with all the stories I've been reading of people helping each other. Nice change of pace in the news cycle I suppose

[bigsnag]

https://www.theprogress.com/news/jet-boat-rides-on-offer-for-those-cut-off-from-communities-in-eastern-fraser-valley/
Some fishing guides were offering free rides today.

Well done boys!

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[RalphH]

I think that hundreds of people volunteered to spend the nights sandbagging the Barrowtown  pump station are amazing heroes.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/volunteers-praised-abbotsford-pump-station

as are those working to evacuate  livestock from flooded farms. many animals have been trapped in deep water in flooded barns

https://globalnews.ca/news/8380864/abbotsford-bc-farmers-rescue-cattle-floodwaters/

thousands of animals are said to be already dead but thousands more have likely been saved.

[Rodney]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE9lsThbaQk

[Rodney]

Saw some sharp photos of the Coquihalla damages tonight. At least three bridges of both lanes are gone.

One over the Coldwater River.



With three washouts just north of it.



Another one at Carolin Mine Road.



By Sowaqua Creek Road.



Plus this big one by Othello Tunnel.



And a bunch of other slides. You can see the rest of the photos here:

https://www.facebook.com/wildairphoto/posts/4633940783316025

[wildmanyeah]

Yep coq will be down for while and certainly not back to normal for years.

[psd1179]

There are around 2.5km railway missing. another stab wound

[wildmanyeah]

There are around 2.5km railway missing. another stab wound

where abouts?

[IronNoggin]

Salmon eggs swept away

https://www.castanet.net/news/BC/351976/Another-impact-of-floods-salmon-eggs-likely-swept-away-by-raging-water

[RalphH]

lots of those eggs and young salmon will get ground to paste in moving rocks and gravel.