‘Our flood is a people story’: Princeton, B.C., mayor reflects on the year since atmospheric river
Global News
'One thing that this flood did was reinforced that we're resilient people, and it doesn't matter what you try to throw at us, we're gonna get back up no matter what.'
Princeton’s mayor is no stranger to adversity.
A year ago this week, Spencer Coyne watched his town crumble around him under the weight of an atmospheric river.
It caused the Tulameen and Similkameen rivers to bulge. Dykes breached, water rushed into the town, power was knocked down, homes were destroyed, and critical infrastructure was decimated.
“Some people lost everything. Absolutely everything: You know, childhood memories, pictures, photographs,” Coyne said, recalling that much of the town was under six to seven feet of water a year ago today.
Through it all, Coyne was pitching in and working. When everyone from news crews to the military descended on the small B.C. town, he was there answering questions and issuing pleas for help.
“We were fortunate nobody lost their lives. And I mean that maybe that’s the best thing that came out of it,” he said.
“The infrastructure, the structures, that’s one thing but our people are really the story, in my opinion.”
Floods tested the mettle of Spencer and the community in general — the latter being something that Coyne was notably proud of.
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