Chilliwack River Valley residents Wendy Hornberg and Richard Holmes stand on Hornberg’s property on Oct. Homeowner Wendy Hornberg said their claim for disaster financial assistance was denied because the home wasn’t technically destroyed in the landslides. The isolation was a surprisingly painful part of the nightmare. The FVRD suffered a whopping 70 incidents across the vast territory during the 2021 weather disaster, where some of its 5,500 residents faced evacuation alerts and orders. After nearly two years, he and other Chilliwack River Valley residents are still without resolution after their homes were deemed unsafe to live in, or destroyed, in the floods and mudslides in November 2021. Enough already.” Richard Holmes stands at the end of his driveway near a sign which reads ‘Risk of slope failure’ on Oct. I would like Premier Eby to acknowledge the gravity of this and take immediate steps to come up with a fair and just resolution. “And it was government land that destroyed my property. “My whole property was concertinaed,” Holmes said, using the term that describes the accordion-like collapse of the land in layers. The destruction was caused by adjacent Crown land failing, he underlined, and it crushed his land. “Why? I don’t know, callous indifference?” Holmes replied despondently.
“What’s really important to note is that there has been a complete failure to act on the part of government.” His driveway is now a 20-foot cliff, and completely inaccessible, so they are in a rental home. “The house is destroyed, the property is destroyed,” Holmes said.
Homeowner Richard Holmes is one of the six, who along with his wife, lost everything including the family home of 40 years. Richard Holmes stands at the end of his driveway blocked by trees and debris on Oct. “Putting them through this wait is terrible,” MacAhonic said. Some are still living in the houses, even if deemed unsafe, and they have to still pay taxes on them.
“As these residents prepare for the two-year anniversary of the weekend that changed their lives forever, I have asked the Province of British Columbia to immediately take action and provide a financial solution so that they may begin the process of recovery,” MacAhonic said. The six were told in May that mitigation of their homes was not going to be feasible. It’s been horrific and they keep getting more bad news,” she said. Six homeowners whose Chilliwack River Valley homes were rendered inhabitable from 2021 atmospheric river events are between the proverbial rock and a hard place – unless the provincial government buys them out.įVRD Electoral Area E rep Patti MacAhonic has been advocating for the six homeowners who are stuck in a nightmarish financial limbo, unable to move forward or recover.
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