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Flash Flood in Canada on Tuesday, 26 June, 2012 at 09:48 (09:48 AM) UTC.
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An elderly man has drowned and almost 700 people have been evacuated from their homes after devastating flash floods hit British Columbia Interior over the weekend. A raging river swept away and drowned Edward Posnifkoff, 72, on Saturday evening. He died after a bridge he was standing on collapsed due to the force of the river. Flooding and mudslides have meant almost 700 people in the province have been forced to flee their homes while more than 1,000 are on evacuation alert. A weekend of thunderstorms was the tipping point - causing many of the rivers to burst their banks which then swept away at least one home. Many homes and dozens of cars in Sicamous, situated 480km west of Calgary, were damaged as 350 residents evacuated on Sunday. And the town's Mayor, Darrell Trouton, warned the worst may be yet to come due to water at higher elevations. 'We had snowmobilers that were up above indicating that we had continuous rain in the upper levels, and there were ravines with water flow that they've never seen before,' he said. On Monday residents and emergency officials across the region began their clean-up mission as well as filling sandbags to try and protect their properties from any further damage. One resident Judy Latosky, 65, saw Sicamous Creek burst its banks before she fled her home with her twin five-year-old granddaughters. 'We lost all of our backyard and now it's just boulders. I looked in this morning and the basement is half full of mud and water. It's a total loss,' the grandmother told the news agency. In Central Kootenay, where Posnifkoff died, 30 homes were evacuated. Posnifkoff was identified on Sunday after his body was found in Goose Creek, a short distance from where he was swept away.
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