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Unionized city workers get 2% pay raise
RCMP has its eye on crime, and criminals
Three Tri-City teams headed to soccer provincials
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Douglas College getting facelift + Violence against women vigil + COVID cases at Coq. care home
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Epic storm a warning of what could come: Mayor Infrastructure needs to be ‘more resilient to severe weather’ DIANE STRANDBERG dstradnberg@tricitynews.com
Matthew and Leanne Wilson say they’re moving from Port Moody’s Suter Brook neighbouhood because they don’t think it’s safe for their family after Leanne was hit by the driver of a van while crossing Brew Street. For more, see the story on Page 11. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS
Coquitlam Mayor Richard Stewart says the massive rainstorm that left debris, muddy fields and some frustrated residents and commuters in its wake is a clarion call that climate change requires a new approach to building homes and infrastructure. Stewart said cities have to make sure that culverts and drainage systems can with-
stand major rainstorms that may become more frequent. “We could well have them every year or two,” he said. “We have to design our systems to be much more resilient to severe weather.” The storm dumped 175 mm of rain in just 37 hours according to the Burke Mountain rain gauge. That’s 70 per cent of the 252 mm average rainfall for the month of November. The spectacular downpour sent homeless people to a Port Moody extreme weather shelter, closed ramps to the Pitt River Bridge in Port Coquitlam and caused sewage and SEE
RAINSTORM, PAGE 3