‘We Lost Everything’: Many Residents in Princeton, BC Still Digging out From Flood

‘We Lost Everything’: Many Residents in Princeton, BC Still Digging out From Flood
Mario Loutef cleans up after his home was flooded in Princeton, B.C., Nov. 20, 2021. The Canadian Press/Jeff McIntosh
The Canadian Press
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PRINCETON, British Columbia—Mario Loutef had little sleep 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.