Rain in Canada forces government to evacuate cities

Liputan6.com, Toronto – A severe rainstorm hit the western Canadian province of British Columbia on Monday, causing landslides, blocking roads, evacuating entire cities and forcing pipeline closures.

Authorities in Merritt, about 200 km (124 miles) northeast of Vancouver, ordered 7,100 Canadians to leave after rising waters shattered a bridge and forced a sewage treatment plant to close. So as quoted from the page Al jazeera, Tuesday (11/16/2021).

“Continuous public residences without sanitation services pose a risk of massive waste storage and personal health risks,” the city government said in an official notice.

Some areas were hit by 200mm (8 inches) of rain on Sunday – the amount typically recorded in a month – and flooding continued on Monday, with roads covered in mud or water up to 250mm (10 inches) ).

“Heavy rains and subsequent landslides / flooding impacted various highways in rural BC,” the BC Ministry of Transportation said on Twitter.

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