A Landslide Just Blocked a Major River in Canada; Now 20,000 are at Risk
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In Canada, a landslide just blocked the major Chilcotin River. As a result, a large lake is building up behind this temporary dam in British Columbia, which ...

Please do not explore the evacuated locations and currently bare riverbed as you could be swept away without any prior warning

Evacuation and Affected Locations

Country: Canada
Province: BC
Local Regions: Chilcotin River, Fraser River

Additional Sources

  • Mycatiskai@lemmy.caEnglish
    8·
    3 months ago

    The slide was so massive that there are trees still standing in the land they were rooted in but that land is now at the bottom of of the hill where the river was.

    In a day or so the dirt will be saturated with the backed up water and it will give way.

    Don’t be anywhere close to that river tomorrow or the next day.