Many roads looked more like rushing rivers during last weekend’s atmospheric river, and some fish seemed to think so as well.
Large salmon were spotted swimming on flooded streets in Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam.
Ahmet Gurses was helping neighbours whose homes were flooding when he heard screaming outside.
“People were screaming, ‘There’s a salmon in the water! There’s a salmon in the water!’” Gurses said.
“In the water was a salmon, in just like maybe six inches, nine inches of water, just casually swimming around.”
Watching the fish swim in street made him realize he couldn’t just leave it.
“I ran over and asked for a bucket, and me and two other guys corralled the salmon into the bucket,” Gurses said. “I picked him up while he was flailing around.”
He ran over to dump the floundering fish into Hyde Creek, a salmon habitat.
Near the Coquitlam River, some dead …