Abbotsford: Canadian British Columbia Province can introduce an emergency on Wednesday to help deal with massive floods that trim access to the largest port in the country and the spread of thousands.
Mudslides triggered by heavy rain destroyed several main roads and killed at least one person.
Officials said that the death toll could rise, because other people were gone.
“What we see is a natural disaster,” the Minister of Public Security Mike Farnworth said the briefing on Tuesday.
“Emergency in all provinces is very much on the table.” Some cities have been completely disconnected and at least one reported that food began to run low.
Jeff Kuhn, pastor in a church with hope, a city of 6,000 people around 100 miles (160 km) East Vancouver, said 1,500 additional people seeking protection.
“There isn’t much left in the grocery store.
They can’t refill, there is no way to pass,” he told Canadian Broadcasting Corp, saying that even though some food had been flown, there was only a day’s inventory.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke with the provincial premiere of John Horgan on Tuesday and said Ottawa would do anything that could, whether it provided short-term assistance or helped rebuild long-term, a statement from the Trudeau office.
Abbotsford City in the east of Vancouver issued an emergency warning on Tuesday night, ordered all occupants from one region to be evacuated immediately.
This area has the main milk industry and on Tuesday farmers worked desperately to save their animals from water that rose, in some cases tying rope on their neck and pulling them with a private boat to a higher ground.
“I know it is difficult for farmers to leave their livestock, but the lives of people are more important to me now than livestock and chicken,” said Abbotsford Mayor Henry Braun told reporters.
The Canadian Pacific Rail and Canadian National Railway, two of the largest rail companies in the country, said the flood had forced them to cut services to Vancouver, the largest port in the country.
This disorder comes because the global supply chain has struggled to deal with problems caused by Covid-19.