Evacuation order continues to remain in effect following Shuswap mudslide
SALMON ARM, B.C. – Weather is complicating the risk assessment process in the Shuswap as officials try to update an evacuation order for McIntyre Creek.
A mudslide over Sunnybrae-Canoe Point Road on Wednesday led to seven properties being evacuated.
Cathy Semchuk with the Shuswap Emergency Management program says rainy weather and snow-melting conditions in the forecast are complicating the risk assessment.
Semchuk says an evacuation order remains in effect.
A geomorphologist is on site today trying to figure out the likelihood of another debris flow. (CFJC)
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