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A couple days before the floods, Environment Canada issued a rainfall warning due to an atmospheric river expected to "drench the B.C. coast" through the weekend of October 18. [11] [12] Official forecasts called for rainfall totals in excess of 200 mm (7.9 in) in some areas. The British Columbia River Forecast Centre issued flood watches for ...
Canada's warehouses are filling up with everything from furniture to alcohol, after floods in British Columbia washed out critical rail and road lines, disrupting already strained supply chains
Churchill Falls, the company town that operates the second-largest hydroelectric dam in Canada (Churchill Falls Generating Station), was evacuated on June 19. [58] The power plant continued to operate with a skeleton staff, until they were forced to evacuate on June 25 after a fire jumped the Churchill River. [58] The evacuation was lifted on ...
Eastern and Central Canada 6 2 Industrial explosion [47] [48] [49] 2022 September 23–24 Hurricane Fiona: Hurricane Atlantic Canada: Eastern Canada 3 $660 million in insured damage making Fiona the most costly storm to hit Canada [50] [51] 2023 February 13 2023 East Ottawa explosion Explosion Ottawa, Ontario Eastern Canada 0 12 [52] 2023 March ...
Canada's British Columbia province on Thursday warned residents to prepare for flooding when rains eventually return after a prolonged drought exacerbated by climate change that has raised ...
Residents of this small U.S. city along the Canadian border were assessing damage from flooding that hit an estimated three quarters of homes, as Washington state and British Columbia tried to dry ...
The 2023 Nova Scotia floods were a series of floods in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. [2] [3] Areas in Nova Scotia received 250mm (9.8 inches) of rain in a 24 hour period, causing flash floods. [4] On July 22, 2023, a state of emergency was declared in the province, scheduled to last two weeks, ending on August 5.
Rapper Drake shared a video of murky water flooding his Toronto mansion as heavy rains inundated parts of Canada on Tuesday and knocked out power for thousands of customers.