The landslides / floods affected several highways in the interior of British Columbia.
British Columbia authorities issued evacuation orders for the south of this western Canadian province after heavy rains caused flooding and landslides, it was officially reported Monday.
“After heavy rains, landslides / floods affected several highways in the interior of British Columbia,” the province’s Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure noted on Twitter.
In fact, several roads were closed in areas that had already been hit this summer by major wildfires.
An urban search and rescue team was also deployed to evacuate dozens of people stranded in their vehicles due to landslides on a highway near Agassiz, about 100 kilometers east of Vancouver, according to local media.
A little further west, the city of Abbotsford issued an evacuation order for more than a hundred homes, according to Radio Canada, due to heavy rains that caused landslides and flooding in some places.
The meteorological agency Environment Canada foresees a reduction in rainfall for the day and in a bulletin issued around 05:00 (13:00 GMT) forecast an additional 50 mm of rain after the fall of “almost 160 mm” in “the east of the Fraser Valley ”. (I)
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