Heavy rainfall in Canada: Emergency centers have been established for displaced people.
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A port spokesman said on Tuesday the port’s spokesman said floods and landslides had left at least one person dead.
Two days of torrential rain across the Pacific province of British Columbia caused major flooding and the closure of rail lines operated by Canadian Pacific Railway and Canadian National Railways, the country’s two largest rail companies. Canada, executive.
Port spokesman Matti Polychronis said: “All rail services to and from the Port of Vancouver are suspended because of flooding in interior British Columbia.
At least one person was killed when a landslide swept cars off Highway 99 near Pemberton, about 100 miles (160 km) northeast of Vancouver.
Officials said two people were missing and search and rescue teams were moving through the rubble.
Vancouver’s port handles 550 million Canadian dollars ($440 million) worth of goods every day, from cars and finished goods to essentials.
The flooding temporarily halted much of the shipping of wheat and canola from Canada, one of the world’s largest grain exporters, during a busy time for grain shipments to the following port. harvest.
The drought has dramatically reduced Canada’s crop area this year, meaning a rail disruption for a few days may not create a significant backlog, a grain industry source told Reuters.
Del Dosdall, senior export manager at Parrish & Heimbecker, said he expected some rail services could be restored by the end of the week. Another industry source said he expected the shutdown to last until last week.
Oil pipeline stopped working
Flooding has also impeded pipelines. Enbridge Inc closed a section of British Columbia’s natural gas pipeline as a precautionary measure.
The storms also forced the closure of the Trans Mountain pipeline, which transports up to 300,000 barrels of crude a day from Alberta to the Pacific coast.
Copper and coal miner Teck Resources Limited said flooding had disrupted shipments of its cargo to export terminals, while potash exporter Canpotex Ltd said it was looking for alternatives. to transfer plant nutrients abroad.
Directly south of British Columbia, in the US state of Washington, heavy rains forced evacuations and cut power to more than 150,000 homes on Monday.
The US National Weather Service on Tuesday issued a flash flood in Mount Vernon, Washington, “due to the possibility of a levee breach.”
Parts of British Columbia received 8 inches (20 cm) of rain on Sunday, which usually falls in a month.
Authorities in Merritt, 120 kilometers (200 kilometers) northeast of Vancouver, ordered all 8,000 citizens to leave on Monday as the river rose rapidly, but some remained trapped in the water. their home on Tuesday, city spokesman Greg Lowis said.
Snow covered the town on Tuesday and several cars could be seen drifting in floodwater up to 4 feet (1.22 m) deep.
The towns of Chilliwack and Abbotsford ordered partial evacuations.
Abbotsford also issued an emergency alert on Tuesday night, ordering all residents to evacuate the Sumas Prairie area immediately as worsening conditions pose a significant threat to life.
Rescuers equipped with diggers and body-sniffing dogs began clearing debris that had blocked the highway.
The landslides and flooding come less than six months after a wildfire burned an entire British Columbia town as temperatures soar during a period of record heat, sparking new worries about Climate Change.
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