From fire to flood A province battered by extremes
When flood waters swept away the highways in and out of Tricia Thorpe’s small town in the Canadian province of British Columbia, there was no way in or out for days. For a while, it seemed the road out of her property would be destroyed too.
“My eldest daughter thought I was going to flip out when there was no road access out,” said Thorpe, who lives in Lytton in Canada’s mountainous west, nearly 300km north-east of Vancouver by road. “But we’ve been through so much now that sometimes you’re sort of numb as to what’s going to happen next.”
She had good reason to be emotional – the devastating floods arrived
