North Vancouver woman nearly swept away as storms rip through B.C.

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Nov 9, 2026
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I guess the terrain, I just couldn't get out of there.
This creek almost killed Brittany Craig
when she tried fixing a water line during Friday's storm.
Went like to lift the rock up and then as soon as I lifted it up,
like the water pushed the rock down like a 10-foot waterfall
and it carried me with it.
Craig struggled to keep her head above water,
eventually grabbing onto a log.
She managed to call 911 and by the time rescuers arrived,
the creek had become a raging river.
Like, there's a lot of things that went right, um, so I'm really...
I feel really lucky, I guess.
Two powerful storm systems swept through British Columbia this weekend,
wreaking havoc on roads and communities.
One person is dead, another injured after a tree fell
on two vehicles in Surrey on Saturday night.
Strong winds also hampered search efforts for a missing canoeist.
James Dakota Smith went out
on Adam River off Vancouver Island on Friday,
but he never returned.
His canoe has since been recovered.
I'm worried.
We want to think as positive as possible right now that
You know he's just found a place to hunker down
and and try and stay as dry as possible.
That's our hope but obviously where
there's there's a lot of fear there.
On Friday a landslide forced the evacuation
of 22 properties in a small village off Vancouver Island.
Morning, live from the villages of Alice this morning.
We have a flooding and we're evacuated from our house.
BC Hydro says a total of 380,000 customers
were without power this weekend.
Teams worked around the clock to restore most of those outages.
Crews would be restoring power in one area.
Winds are coming in again.
More tree branches and trees are falling onto lines.
And so then you're getting new outages coming online
just as you're restoring power to another area.
After three days of heavy rain and strong winds,
we get a bit of a reprieve, but it won't last long.
Because, Caroline, more extreme weather is on the way.
That's right. Environment Canada says another series
of powerful storms is expected to come
through Tuesday through to Thursday,
bringing with them strong winds, prolonged periods of
heavy rain to Vancouver Island and parts of southern BC.
Caroline Bargoot in Vancouver.
