'Extreme flooding' reported in Haida Gwaii amid rainfall warning for B.C.'s North Coast
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A washout has closed Highway 16 on Haida Gwaii as a round of heavy rain lashes B.C.'s North Coast.
DriveBC says the highway is closed between Lawnhill Road and Miller Road, for a 5.3-kilometre stretch, with no detour in place as of 1 p.m. PT on Monday.
Resident Alex Rinfret posted pictures of the washout, near Jungle Beach.
She said her husband told her the roadway was flooded on Sunday, but hadn't yet collapsed. On Monday though, when she and her son tried to drive through on their way south to the airport in Sandspit, Rinfret saw a "giant gash" on the highway.
"Way worse than just a big puddle, like the highway is completely gone," she said. "There's a giant gap that you cannot get across with a vehicle."
Rinfret said her son had few other options other than to hike along the nearby beach, get across the highway gap and be driven to the airport from there.
She said the washout along the highway is unlike anything she's seen before on Haida Gwaii, and it means a critical north-south route on the archipelago is completely cut off.
Rinfret said she worries for people needing to access health-care services or fresh groceries, and hopes the stretch is fixed by the time she needs to drive south to Daajing Giids on Tuesday.
"It looked like an earthquake or something had happened. It just destroyed it," she said.
In a statement, the Haida Nation said that there was "extreme flooding" on Haida Gwaii after high levels of rain followed a bout of snow.
The nation warned residents that backroads and remote routes weren't safe.
"Conditions are unstable, many forest service roads are inaccessible or impassable, and attempting to use them may put individuals at serious risk and impede emergency response efforts," the nation's statement read.
North Coast-Haida Gwaii MLA Tamara Davidson said the province's transportation ministry is reviewing plans to create a temporary structure to deal with the washout.
While she said there was no exact timeline for when that could go into place, she said officials are advising residents to stay clear of fast-flowing rivers at this point.
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