Swil Kanim, right, and his wife, Laurie, stand with their dog outside their RV. The RV park where they live was flooded by the swollen Nooksack River this week. They had to be rescued by boat. They got out with Swil Kanim's violins, some artwork and their beloved dog, Lucky.
“But this is a creek right here. And it goes underneath this road. And right where we're standing, there was two and a half feet of water, so there was no easy way to drive out of this,” he said.Swil Kanim says the water rose as quickly as it receded. It happened so suddenly, that when his wife, Laurie, went to the door of the RV to check the water levels in the transit center and the food bank next door, which are at lower ground, she got an unpleasant surprise.
"So we were trapped,” he said. “It was like, 'Oh my God, now what?' And we just kept hoping the water would go down overnight. We realized the water ain't going down.” “There's things I want. But what I need is my wife, my violin and my dog and the community and friends and family around me,” he said.
More broadly, he says this sudden and surprising flood — with water levels rising higher than he ever could have imagined — holds a lesson about how he thinks we should live now, because more floods are coming.
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