‘Lord save us!’: How a landslide changed Wanda Turner
Wanda Turner’s vehicle was hit by a wall of mud as she attempted to return to her Chilliwack home during 2021’s atmospheric river disaster.
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What it’s like to lose 200,000 chickens in a flood: a Sumas Prairie farmer in his own words
Corry Spitters shares how he and his family and staff returned to save his Sumas Prairie farm despite authorities preventing access during the 2021 floods. The ninth in a series of first-hand accounts collected by the Climate Disaster Project and Fraser Valley Current.
‘I was looking at the mountains and worrying they were going to fall on us’
Cyndie Anderson and her partner were stuck in Mission, five hours from home, work, and her aging mother in Lac La Hache, when natural disasters shuttered highways for two weeks in 2021.
‘It was the most important thing I’ve ever done in my lifetime’
Alison Arends recounts how her family’s farmyard turned into a community hub for support during the 2021 Fraser Valley floods. The seventh in a series of first-hand accounts collected by the Climate Disaster Project and Fraser Valley Current.
‘I’m still going through it’: a Merritt senior rebuilds after a flood
Donna Rae retired in April in an affordable retirement home. She had just renovated her bathroom when the city was flooded last year. Now rebuilding, she and others continue to struggle.
‘The bus pulled into a parking lot and we just sat there’
When the highways that connect the lower mainland to the rest of the province were severed by floods and mudslides in November, 2021, Mikaela Robinson was on the bus from Kelowna to Vancouver. She got stuck in Hope. The latest in our partnership with the Climate Disaster Project.
‘We open the back and there’s this alligator sitting in this enclosure.’
When the heavy rains poured down on the Fraser Valley in November of 2021, Jordi Wiliams realized his small fishing boat with its jet motor could serve a bigger purpose. The latest in our partnership with the Climate Disaster Project
‘It sounded like the whole world was coming to an end’
Ryan Kehler retells the dramatic experience of trying to get home to Harrison during the 2021 Fraser Valley floods. The third in a series of first-hand accounts collected by the Climate Disaster Project and Fraser Valley Current.
‘It was just water everywhere for miles and miles’
Brian Mirea recounts trying to help during 2021’s Fraser Valley floods. The second in a series of first-hand accounts collected by the Climate Disaster Project and Fraser Valley Current.
Their stories, their words: The Climate Disaster Project
Ten people affected by last year’s flooding and landslides tell their individual stories as part of a collaboration between the Climate Disaster Project and the Fraser Valley Current.