Looters target flooded home on Sumas Prairie, but volunteers helping family rebuild
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After their home was flooded and crops destroyed, the Sandu family was dealt another blow by looters, who made off with irreplaceable items passed down by relatives or hand-made by their children.
They were forced off their farm by the floods on Sumas Prairie.
When they returned home, they discovered thieves had been there first.
“They have no heart,” said Ryan Sandhu, who believes the only way thieves could have accessed the property earlier was by boat.
The crooks damaged a door and broke into the home, grabbing what they could carry including the watches Sandhu’s children had bought him over the years as gifts for Father’s Day. They also took jewelry passed on from Sandhu’s mom to his wife and even bracelets his children hand-made with their grandmother.
“Those bracelets are worth maybe a dollar, but to me it’s a million,” he explained.
The Sandhus live in one of the hardest his areas of Sumas Prairie.
Their vegetable crops were ruined during the floods that left their property under six feet of water and shattered the glass in the greenhouses.
