For a few hours, residents at a mobile home park in the Lower Nicola near Merritt, B.C., were stranded, as water breached a nearby highway.
“Within half an hour, the park was underwater. It was like a river running through the park and people were scrambling to get their belongings and their pets out of the park,” said resident Julie VanKoll.
For a period of time residents were trapped on their property, unable to leave because the roads were washed out. (Tina Lovgreen/CBC)
The Thompson-Nicola Regional District issued an evacuation order for the mobile home park and several other properties in
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