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Vol. 55 No. 26 Sicamous, B.C., • 1.25 (GST included) • www.eaglevalleynews.com
Splish, splash and slide: Nash Rutherford, Greysyn Drake and Dylan Miller are among the kids enjoying themselves sliding around in the foam at the Community Safety Fair held Saturday in the parking lot at Eagle River Secondary School. For more images from the event, turn to page 2. Photo by James Murray
Weather norms washed out Man survives being By Barb Brouwer Eagle Valley News
Blame it on the Gulf of Mexico. A low-pressure area that brought torrential rains to the Shuswap had sucked up precipitation from southern U.S., says Environment Canada warning preparedness meteorologist Doug Lundquist. “The storm is com-
ing at the normal time of the year, but two to three times what you’d normally get in a storm,” he said last Thursday, noting the Shuswap as a whole received a month’s worth of rain or more. “This is likely because it tapped into moisture from Texas and the Gulf of Mexico.” Salmon Arm re-
ceived 29.8 mm of rain on Wednesday, June 19 blowing the 20.8 mm record posted on the same day in 1997 out of the water. A station in Enderby recorded 73 mm of rain in 24 hours from Wednesday to Thursday morning, while a station in Salmon Arm recorded 43 mm in the same period.
“It’s certainly significant, I know we’re gonna be way over at the end of the month,” Lundquist said, noting normal precipitation in Salmon Arm is 63 mm for the entire month of June. “The band (of low pressure) got stuck for a long time over the area, then the storms from Alberta moved See Rain on page 3
side-swiped by train Alcohol was likely a “contributing factor” when a man was struck by a Canadian Pacific train Thursday afternoon in Sicamous. Sicamous RCMP Sgt. Dave Dubnyk said the man was found lying conscious in the ditch about three metres from the train, suffering from injuries to his left shoulder and arm.
He had been walking east in the middle of the track when a westbound train sounded its horn. He moved off the track but got too close to the train as it passed by. The man was taken to Salmon Arm hospital to be stabilized and from there was transferred to Royal Inland Hospital, where he remains in the intensive care unit.