After B.C. floods, Princeton’s mayor battles the elements and bureaucracy to save his hometown from ruin

The flooding has also pushed small-town mayors and councillors to the limit as they struggle to lead their communities through recovery efforts on a scale few could have imagined when they ran for office.

On Tuesday, a house fire broke out in the north part of town. With no water service in that neighbourhood, it was a challenge to put out. Mr. Coyne has deep roots in Princeton, where he lives on a family farm that was purchased around 1928. Red meant a home was likely damaged beyond repair and couldn’t be entered without special authorization. Yellow meant a less damaged home could be entered for limited purposes, such as disposing of contaminated contents. Green meant the home could be reoccupied if not in an evacuation zone.

Opening her door, the turbid water was nearly to her waist. Returning the next day – it had receded down to her knees – she found her other cat and penguins bobbing all around the main floor. But Mr. Coyne said the humanitarian part of recovery efforts was “falling through the cracks.” So he found the Red Cross a building where it can provide aid to residents.

Now, after a week, members of ALERT, an organization based in Penticton, 70 kilometres away, which rescues pets and livestock during disasters, were helping to load the animals onto a twin-engine plane operated by Oceanside Air Ltd. It would have to make the short flight twice to get all of them to Abbotsford.

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