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Small community of Thrums outside of Castlegar. Closed Highway 3#A.
Just hear it on the news and I have no further information at this time.
Found this......
A mudslide in the Kootenays has caused the closure of Highway 3A in both directions between Castlegar and Nelson, according to DriveBC.
The slide occurred near the hamlet of Thrums late Tuesday afternoon, leaving no detours available, several homes at risk, businesses flooded and creeks overflowing.
Jennifer Peters, who commuted past the slide on her way home from work, said the detour open to her has since been closed by emergency crews.
"I don't know of anyone being really hurt or anything terrible coming of this," she said.
There have been no reports of injuries or damage.
The slide comes two days after a slide at Fairmont Springs stranded 500 campers north of Cranbrook, and less than a week after a landslide ripped through Johnsons Landing, another Kootenays hamlet, burying homes and four people beneath a morass of mud, rocks, broken trees and debris.
All three slides occurred within 100 kilometres of each other.
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Just hear it on the news and I have no further information at this time.
Found this......
A mudslide in the Kootenays has caused the closure of Highway 3A in both directions between Castlegar and Nelson, according to DriveBC.
The slide occurred near the hamlet of Thrums late Tuesday afternoon, leaving no detours available, several homes at risk, businesses flooded and creeks overflowing.
Jennifer Peters, who commuted past the slide on her way home from work, said the detour open to her has since been closed by emergency crews.
"I don't know of anyone being really hurt or anything terrible coming of this," she said.
There have been no reports of injuries or damage.
The slide comes two days after a slide at Fairmont Springs stranded 500 campers north of Cranbrook, and less than a week after a landslide ripped through Johnsons Landing, another Kootenays hamlet, burying homes and four people beneath a morass of mud, rocks, broken trees and debris.
All three slides occurred within 100 kilometres of each other.
Read it on Global News:
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