Ottawa: Police said Tuesday at least one person was killed in heavy rains trapped by riders in landslides, forcing thousands to evacuate their homes and cut Vancouver from all of Canada.
The search and rescue team restored a woman’s body from a landslide near Lillooet, 250 kilometers (155 miles) North Vancouver, said Royal Canadian Mounted police.
Sergeant Staff Janelle Shoihet added that investigators had received two reports of missing people, but they believed “there might be another vehicle occupied missing in the slide.” “The total number of people and vehicles that are not counted have not been confirmed,” he said.
The rain has arrived at the end of Tuesday afternoon.
But landslides, rocks and debris washing several highways that lead to Vancouver, trapping hundreds of riders saved by military helicopters on Monday night.
Local television shows video recording from Trans Canada Highway – which connects coastal cities to all countries – flooded.
A bridge is also washed away.
Other routes have also been closed, according to the BC drive, which says on Twitter: “The highway is closed until further notice.” As a result, motorists who want to travel to or from Vancouver must travel to the south to the United States and return to Canada.
Anyone who takes this circuit route, however, must show evidence of a negative Covid-19 test when he enters Canada.
Landslides also cut the train traffic to and from Vancouver – one of Canada’s busiest goods transportation port.
“Rail CN and CP indicate that there is no railroad traffic that can currently transit between Kamloops and Vancouver,” said Port spokesman told AFP.
In Ottawa, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his government was “watching carefully” the situation that developed in British Columbia.
He spoke with provincial provinces, John Horgan, later on to see what federal assistance needed.
“We will be there to help in any way, shape or shape,” he told reporters.
Rainfallenvironment Canada Records say up to 250 millimeters (almost 10 inches) rain – what regions usually get in a month – fall on Sundays and Mondays in and around Vancouver, which was also hit last week by rare tornadoes.
Extreme weather came after British Columbia suffered the highest record temperature during the summer which killed more than 500 people, and forest fires that destroyed a city.
On Tuesday, thousands of British Colombian residents could not return to their homes because of evacuation orders that were still valid because of flooding in a dozen communities – including all Merritt and Abbotsford parts – and as many as 9,000 houses without strength.
In Merritt, the flood compromised a wastewater treatment plant, while thousands in Abbotsford reported sleep in their car on the road that was elevated overnight, when the farm in Vaster Valley was flooded.
Others take refuge on emergency sites arranged in all provinces, with some sleeping churches or at school, local media said.
“Everyone has been honored,” Andrew Clark, a musician who was stuck with a thousand other travelers with hopes, 150 kilometers (90 miles) east of Vancouver, told Public Broadcasters CBC.
“Everyone knows that we are on the same ship, so it’s all good enough, but I think there is a kind of general atmosphere disappointment that we can’t find more information about what’s happening on the road,” he said.
“People are a little worried about how many nights we might stay here.”