Another mudslide strikes in the Kootenays
Posted Jul 18, 2012 12:07 am.
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Heavy downpours swept across the Kootenays today as a small mudslide severed the highway between Castlegar and Nelson, B.C.
660’s Andrew Hopkins talked to people in Nelson who say it only rained for a couple hours in the afternoon but it was one of the worst they had ever seen.
Diane Walsh with the Best Western Plus Hotel says city streets turned into rivers and they had to run into several of their rooms with towels to soak up the water after the caulking around the windows leaked.
To the southwest near the small town of Thrums, a mudslide closed Highway 3A just outside Castlegar.
Three homes next to the slide were evacuated and the highway was closed for several hours.
No injuries were reported.
