Over a month ago a massive flood took over the city stopping tons of shipments and damaging roads.

On the 14th of November, Vancouver and the Fraser valley faced a huge flood taking down multiple millions of dollars worth of properties. It was recognized as a state of climate emergency on the 17th of November. Farms, houses, bridges and even roads were damaged by water. It is seen today as Canada’s biggest flood in the past 500 years. 

Water was coming from everywhere Monday morning, it raised about 8 inches overnight. Home owners tried their best to pull the water out of their basements. It rained very heavily until the wind took over blowing waves and branches onto land. People were left without power and their houses were rapidly being taken over by the massive water overflow. Tens of thousands of homeowners were displaced.

Mudslides have blocked all routes to Vancouver and all highways have been forced to shut down. “Help is here,” said Mike Farnworth (BC Deputy Premier and Public Safety Minister). Recovery work hasn’t even begun. Hundreds of properties have been damaged so many are still unable to return home. Justin Trudeau sent hundreds of air forces to help with supplies, to evacuations. Key highways 3 and 99 were set to be finished and functional again around late January, but it was still not enough for people who wanted to use them to go visit their family during the holidays.

Livestock also took a hit, animals drowned overnight or could be saved because the water level rose too quickly for the farmers to save them all, farmers were left with no choice but to leave their animals behind. The finals deaths statistics are 628,000 poultry, 12,000 hogs, and 420 cows died in BC floods.

Scientists are blaming climate change in fact Dr. Rachel White said, “As we warm up the atmosphere, as we warm up the oceans more water is evaporating from the oceans so then when we have these atmospheric river events, essentially the atmosphere can carry more water towards our mountains.”