B.C. floods: Frustration grows as Merritt evacuees return home
Global News
More residents in Phase 3 and 4 are able to return home in Merritt. But there is still growing frustration from property owners.
The city of Merritt has updated the final phases of its Return Home Plan, allowing more residents in Phase 3 and 4 to go back home.
There is still growing frustration from property owners who are just now being allowed to go home or still aren’t able to.
Merritt resident, Albert Gartner, said the situation is “devastating.” He returned to his home in phase 4.
“What a mess. I just got back this weekend, and everything was frozen. There’s mud at the bottom of the stairs, and I couldn’t even shovel out,” Gartner said.
Another resident, Beth Nadeau, said it looks like “a cyclone hit her home.”
Nadeau said she is not too pleased with the way city officials have handled the evacuation; she said she believes that if residents had been allowed back sooner, it would have prevented some damage.
“I had no information,” Nadeau said. “I don’t even know if my water is on or off. I don’t know how to get ahold of anybody to get the water off if it is on. If the pipes burst and thaw again then I’ll have more water in my basement and I don’t even know how to contact anybody about it.”
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