UMAS: The small town citizen of the United States along the Canadian border assessed the damage to the floods that hit three-quarters of the house, because the state of Washington and British Columbia tried to dry out of intense rainstorms, days that cut the road and force hundreds of evacuations.
Bright Skies Wednesday morning in the area around Sumas, Washington, where around 500 rescue and evacuation was reported.
“We are looking at the door to the door, when the waters fall in various parts of the city,” Sumas Mayor Kevin Christensen told Times Seattle.
“Half is on dry ground, half has water.” Soaking with the so-called atmospheric rivers that remove rain torrents at Pacific Northwest and British Columbia from Saturday to Monday reminded people about Western Washington’s records, severe flooding in November 1990 when two people died and there were more than 2,000 evacuations.
While the weather improved, the situation remained terrible in British Columbia, where the Canadian government sent the military to help with floods and landslides that destroyed several major highways.
Soon across the border from Suma, the residents of the Abbotsford lowland area, British Columbia, they have been warned to face a significant risk of life and must be evacuated to avoid increasing water surfaces.
The Mayor of Henry Braun said on Wednesday that his condition was bad overnight because the main pump station was in the danger of being overwhelmed.
He said the crew spent Tuesday night sand around the station and things “held stable.” “I feel much better today than last night,” Braun said, even though he warned the danger did not pass.
The fasting water level on the Sumas River in the Washington state on Tuesday inherited rescuers in Abbotsford, where 1,100 houses were evacuated.
The residents joined thousands of other people in the province who were forced by their homes by floods or landslides starting Sunday night.
Braun said on Tuesday that the highway that could not be passed to create a catastrophe because the authorities tried to make people become an evacuation site.
On Facebook, Sumas City said on Wednesday that the surface of the water continued to fall and looked like a community would not be affected by the situation in Abbotsford.
It was said that the crew worked hard to clear the road and restore power to the city part without.
“This family and business requires our prayers and support when we start the cleaning process and rebuild for the next few days,” the city said at another Facebook post.
Across the border, the body of a woman recovered from a landslide near the small community of Lilloet, British Columbia.
The Royal Canadian police installed said at least two other people were reported missing.
Southwest Sumas, Washington, a 59-year-old man from Everson, who was identified by the police on Tuesday when Jose Garcia still disappeared after his truck was swept into the flood and he stuck to the tree.
In the city of Feringdale, also southwest Sumas, officials on Tuesday urged people at home and business to be evacuated in the area near the nooksack river that rises.
The observers near the city’s main road saved a misty Tuesday man drove to the flood.
Half a dozen people navigate the waters to their chest and push the car floating to a drier ground.
Rain is caused by the atmospheric river – large moisture feathers that stretch over the Pacific and to Washington, Oregon and British Columbia.
About 5.57 inches (14.14 centimeters) fell at Bellingham International Airport from Saturday to Monday, November 15.
The total normal monthly rain is 5.2 inches (13.2 centimeters) for November, according to national weather service data.
Washington Gov.
Jay Inslee on Monday declared severe weather emergency in 14 countries.
It was the second large-scale flood event in the northwestern part of Washington state in less than two years, and climate change triggered stronger weather and often severe, whatcom county official told Bellingham Herald.
The US-Canadian border cities assess damage from the awesome flood
