‘We lost everything’: Many residents in Princeton, B.C. still digging out from flood
Global News
A vast swath of downtown Princeton, two hours south of Kamloops, was decimated when the Tulameen River overflowed its banks, flooding homes and forcing people to evacuate.
Mario Loutef had little sleep over the four days leading up to Saturday, when he piled his ruined belongings in the street outside his home in Princeton, B.C.
A vast swath of the downtown in the community two hours south of Kamloops was decimated when the Tulameen River overflowed its banks, flooding homes and forcing people to evacuate.
The community still remains on an evacuation alert but for many, like Loutef, the damage couldn’t get any worse.
“It turned the corner and then it was like a tsunami because it filled up the little streets on the way here. But once those were taken care of that’s when the water took care of my space and everybody else on the road,” he told The Canadian Press.
A think coat of black mud has covered everything on the first floor of the home. Loutef has been working around the clock since he was allowed access. Boards have been ripped off walls, a dirty line about 2 metres up on the wall shows how high the water rose.
“I lost everything. We lost everything, the wife and I. I don’t know where to start. I don’t know where it’s going to end,” said Loutef, who has lived in the home for the past four years.
“I’m trying to save my tools, which is my bread and butter, because if I don’t have that I can’t make the revenue. I’m pretty much in the slop…pun intended.”
Streets in the area are closed to traffic. Suction trucks are trying to remove standing water from some basements. The streets and sidewalks are covered in mud.
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