People are pictured during a period of rain in Vancouver, B.C., on Tuesday, May 21, 2024.
Storms across southern B.C. over the weekend brought record rainfall and strong gusts that brought down trees, damaging homes and vehicles in different parts of the province.Storms across southern B.C. over the weekend brought record rainfall and strong gusts that brought down trees, damaging homes and vehicles in different parts of the province.
The White Rock area recorded 49.2 millimetres of rain, exceeding its old record of 29.7 millimetres set in 1977. The Vancouver area received 26.7 millimetres of rain, surpassing the previous record of 17.6 millimetres recorded in 2008.Huge tree falls on Vancouver house "I realized as the sounds changed over about three to five seconds that it was a massive tree splintering and shearing off in front of our house, as it was followed by a huge boom and impact that shook the whole house," Haggis said, adding that no one was injured and no windows were shattered.
But it said that was accompanied by heavy winds gusting up to 100 km/h in some areas, which "blew trees down along fire lines in the south" and forced a fire camp in Invermere, B.C., to move to another location. The service said no one was injured. The Corya Creek wildfire in northwest B.C. is now the province's only wildfire of note, according to the B.C. Wildfire Service, which says the number of active blazes has fallen to 312.
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