The rain has only just stopped pummelling parts of Metro Vancouver, but for the hundreds of residents left with flood-damaged homes, the nightmare is far from over.
Over the weekend an atmospheric river brought a month’s worth of rainfall to southern B.C, causing widespread outages and unprecedented flooding to the region.
At least three people in the province have been reported dead, while countless others have been driven from their homes and left to pick up the pieces.
In one of the hardest-hit neighbourhoods, North Vancouver’s Deep Cove, an evacuation order remains in effect for six waterfront homes.
Long-time Panorama Avenue resident Peter Dunsford, whose daughter, Christy, had been one of the residents forced to leave home on Sunday, said in his 55-years of living in the area he had never “seen it like this before.”
His daughter had been told to leave earlier, but she had been concerned “they …