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This was very hard for me to watch.
I grew up in Chilliwack and in 30 years saw many floods, and even when I left BC in 1998, the calls to do something about the aging and inadequate dikes were loud and clear
You hear about 1894, 1948 etc but
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I grew up in Chilliwack and in 30 years saw many floods, and even when I left BC in 1998, the calls to do something about the aging and inadequate dikes were loud and clear
You hear about 1894, 1948 etc but
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#BCFlood
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what you don't hear about is what happens every year. Flooding is a part of life in the FV. Obviously not to this scale, but to hear the Abbotsford Mayor say he opted not to send out an emergency alert because "people could just look out their window" absolutely infuriates me
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To know that these people, who are accustomed to annual flooding, where not alerted to the severity of this flood just because the 160K people not impacted might "get upset" is a line of thinking I can't even comprehend.
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B.C. has declared a state of emergency for the third time this year, amid deadly landslides and floods. Our thoughts are with the families of people killed or still missing, and all those left stranded or homeless by B.C.'s latest climate disaster. #BCflood 
Thank you to the local officials, First Nations governments, search and rescue teams, Gurdwaras, first responders and thousands of volunteers working around the clock to take care of those in need.
We are alarmed by the slow response of the provincial government, which was warned about the coming deluge last Friday and failed to get people out of the path of danger.
Saw incredible grit in Abbotsford today, as farmers and community members rallied to rescue dozens of cattle stranded by #bcflood with boats, dinghies, a jet ski and even a hover craft. Heard these scenes were playing out across the valley.
Photographed for @reuterspictures:
Photographed for @reuterspictures:
More scenes from the great cattle rescue:
So many people today said they’d seen floods before, but never like this:
