Marilyn Penner, Allan Toop and Nora Weber have spent a combined 170 years living in the eastern Fraser Valley. Entire communities in the Fraser Valley, east of Vancouver, were overwhelmed by surging water on Sunday in one of the province's most severe flooding disasters in decades. Experts agree what's happened this week is exceedingly rare but warn they expect these rarities could become more common and more intense as the planet warms. © Ben Nelms/CBC Homes and farmland in the community of Sumas Prairie are submerged amid flooding in Abbotsford on Tuesday. 'Very, very unusual'Floods in the Fraser Valley typically happen when unusually warm spring weather quickly melts an unusually large snowpack, sending an immense amount of snowmelt running into the valley and overwhelming the Fraser River.

Source: CBC News November 17, 2021 17:45 UTC