In an interview with the CBC, Sumas First Nation Chief Dalton Silver said, “despite the devastation caused by flooding over the past week, the Sumas First Nation is ‘coping quite well’ as their houses are built on ground that’s higher than the ancient shallow lake. ‘We had elders that told us before that should this lake . . . come back our homes would be OK. We knew the levels of the lake before.’”
— Michelle Gomez, “Sumas)
