Evacuation Alerts, Highway Closures as More Rain Hammers Southern BC

Evacuation Alerts, Highway Closures as More Rain Hammers Southern BC
Debris is pictured along a flooded road in Abbotsford, B.C., November 25, 2021. The Canadian Press/Jonathan Hayward
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VICTORIA—Southern British Columbians braced for another severe storm Saturday, with a new set of evacuation alerts issued and officials in an already devastated agricultural community warning of another possible river overflow.

Abbotsford Mayor Henry Braun told a news conference Saturday that the city has done everything it can with provincial and federal support to prepare, but the Nooksack River in Washington state presented an “unknown factor.”