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‘No highways to get me home’: More than 100 truckers trapped in Merritt, B.C. due to floods
Merritt, B.C., following unprecedented highway closures due to flooding.And it’s starting to get rougher as sanitation needs continue to go unmet and food supplies dwindle.“I was about to go pick up a load on the coast and that didn’t happen because the flooding on the Coquihalla, and I am stuck here because there are no highways to get me home,” David Rusch from Salmon Arm, said.“I’ve been driving truck(s) for 30 years and I never experienced anything like this.” More than 1,100 homes evacuated in Abbotsford, B.C. amid flooding concerns Between the Esso station and a nearby Walmart, Rusch estimated there could be several hundred truckers in the same position.