Canadian western territory declared state of emergency after a serious storm has cut road and rail links in district.
The storm hit overnight on Sunday, and the Canadian Armed Forces are being arranged to support thousands of helpless and trapped residents.
During a visit to Washington DC, the Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged abetment and said, troops could help to rebuild.
Where, two peoples are still missing and one woman was killed.
After an “atmospheric river “thousands remained evacuated, dumped average monthly rainfall just in 24 hours, covering of moisture in the air that conveys water from humid areas to the poles.
Executives in the region have assigned this natural disaster as the effect of change in climate.
We know that, increased temperature of the sea surface warms the above air and creates more energy which is sufficient to drive the cyclone, but still the effect of change in climate on the storm’s frequency is quite confusing.
Since the industrial era began the temperature is continuously rising and it will continue unless government of every country make a steep cut towards emission. However, the world has been pleasant 1.2C approximately.
“Now we need to act”
On Wednesday, in the news conference, British Columbia Premier “John Horgan” said, the emergency order took effect at 12:00 according to local time.
He addressed that, the restrictions on travelling will keep peoples far away from flooded roads and they are making sure that essential goods will reach to the people that needs them. However, he said, there is no any person who hasn’t been affected by this incident of past week.
British Columbia should “bring 7 billion other peoples together that lives on this planet to recognize that, now we all need to act” to shield from these events that can occur in future too.
While ‘Richel White’ University of British Columbia atmospheric scientist addressed to channels that the huge confusion occurred by this storm can be assigned as factor caused by human.
Prof White said, wildfires have removed old trees along with deep roots, which leads to land sliding while raining. Increase in lack of capacity to absorb water pavement which rises the chances of floods.
The World leaders meet for COP26 conference on climate change in Glasgow and instantly this extreme weather in Canada comes a day after it.
As we all can see, in summer season, the same region that is, ‘British Columbia’, experienced a high heat record and approximately 500 peoples were killed in it and the wildfires that demolished Lytton’s village.
“Not out of this yet”
By Tuesday afternoon, the rain and winds are likely to finish but certain regions are helpless. Whereas, more rain is predicted in the upcoming weeks.
On Wednesday, after the slides demolished roads and floods affected prime highways, so the helicopter supplied food for the helpless mountain communities.
According to Reuters news agency, approx. 400 peoples are trapped in the town of Tulameen. Where, the Farmers and landlords staying at lower altitude struggled through this flooding situations along with those thousands of animals have died.
Residents of some neighbourhood of the Abbotsford city on Tuesday said, all to leave as rising water level id stable “a serious risk of life”.
On Wednesday’s press conference, Mayor ‘Henry Braun’ addressed that the level of water around Fraser River is decreasing, but “we are not out of this danger yet”.
However, rescue operations are still going on, and aerial judgements of damage are also in process.
