Abbotsford: The death toll from major floods and landslides that were destroyed by British Columbia would rise, with Canadian provinces expressed an emergency on Wednesday and the federal government promised big assistance.
Authorities have confirmed one death after heavy rains and Mudslides destroyed the road and left several mountainous cities isolated.
At least three people are missing.
About 18,000 people were displaced in the Pacific coastal province, the Canadian public security minister, Marco Mendicino said.
“We hope to confirm more deaths in the coming days,” said British Columbia Premier John Horgan, describing the catastrophe as an event once 500 years “We will bring restrictions on travel and ensure that transportation of important items and medical.
And emergency services can reach out.
Communities that need it, “Horgan said to a press conference, urged people not to hoard inventory.
Floods and landslides were also disconnected to the largest port in the country in Vancouver, disrupting the global supply chain that had been tense.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his government would help the province recovered from what he called “terrible, terrible disaster.” Ottawa sent hundreds of air force personnel to help recover and “there were thousands more on the standby,” Trudeau told reporters in Washington ahead of the As-Canada-Mexican Summit on Thursday.
Some affected cities are in remote mountainous areas with limited access and frozen temperatures.
In the bone, northeast of Vancouver, up to 400 people trapped, a lot without strength, said Erick Thompson, spokesman for the regional emergency operation.
“(We) did a helicopter flight recently, dropped food,” he told Canadian Broadcasting Corp with hopes, 100 miles (160 km) East Vancouver, the food began to run low.
Father Jeff Kuhn said a quarter of 6,000 city residents looking for protection.
About 100 volunteers at the Temple of Dukh Nivaran Sahib Gurdwara Sikh in Surrey spent all the night preparing about 3,000 meals and then rented a helicopter to deliver food to Hope, said the temple president, Narinder Singh Walia.
Recent disasters can be one of the most expensive in Canadian history.
Read more flooding is a havoc regarding the second weather to hit British Columbia in recent months.
A large fire in the same area as some destruction destroyed the entire city at the end of June.
Read more “This is an extraordinary event that is not measured before, not intended earlier,” Horgan said.
Canadian commodity exporters of grains to fertilizer and rushed oil to divert shipping away from Vancouver but find some easy alternatives.
Canada Pacific Railway Ltd.
(CP.TO) and Canadian National Railway Co (CNR.TO), two of the largest rail companies in the country, said their lines to Vancouver still could not be used on Wednesday.
After a phenomenon known as a river atmospheric removing rain a month in two days, officials were worried that other rain could flood a pump station near Abbotsford, a city of 160,000 east of Vancouver, which was partly evacuated.
Mayor Henry Braun said volunteers built dams around the station overnight.
“It will buy us more time, but if we have another weather event as we just passed, we were in doo-doo (problem),” he told reporters.
Abbotsford farmers ignore the evacuation order on Tuesday and desperately trying to save animals from riding water, in some cases tying rope around the cow’s neck and pulled them to a higher ground.
Read more of the Agriculture Minister Lana Pophham said thousands of animals had died and others had to be put to sleep.
The Canadian environment says Abbotsford will receive more rain early next week.
Rescuer Mike Dongs, part of Abbotsford’s evacuation team, said the situation was very difficult.
“The majority of people have elderly parents with those who cannot walk, suffer from dementia,” he told local press media outlets black.