Heavy rain, spring snowmelt threaten several B.C. communities with flooding

People in the British Columbia community of Grand Forks are hustling to get ahead of a deluge of melting snow and heavy rainfall.

THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-City of Grand Forks

A week of record temperatures has quickly melted mountain snowpacks. Environment Canada said 19 daily heat records were broken Thursday in B.C.’s Interior, including in Kelowna, where the temperature exceeded a peak set in 1900. B.C.’s River Forecast Centre has issued flood warnings for the Boundary Region, including the Kettle and Granby rivers that run through Grand Forks.

Parts of the village of Cache Creek, about 80 kilometres west of Kamloops, remain inundated by floodwaters that flowed through the community’s firehall as well as businesses and several homes.The village’s Facebook page on Friday said 21 properties have been evacuated, with more on alert as floodwaters cut through the downtown.

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