'I get angrier every time': Abbotsford family fed up with decades of flooding from Nooksack River

When her family dairy farm, the Dykman Cattle Company, flooded nearly two weeks ago, it was the worst Cynthia Dykman had ever seen in her two decades on the western edge Sumas Prairie. But it was far from the first time.

You might call the Dykman family veterans of the floods.

When their dairy farm, the Dykman Cattle Company, flooded nearly two weeks ago, it was the worst Cynthia Dykman had ever seen in her two decades on the western edge Sumas Prairie.

But it was far from the first time.

“It’s happened three times, and the last time was only a year and a half ago,” Dykman tells me.

“I get angrier every time.”

The Dykmans, who together managed to save nearly all of their 800 cattle and 300 calves, have been hit hard before.

In the last few years, they had their entire home physically lifted four feet.