Hope, B.C. Meghan Boulanger and her sons Zain, 6, and five-month-old Max, were visiting family in Merritt, B.C. last weekend and were on their way home when floods and mudslides blocked their path.Like hundreds of others caught on the roads during Sunday’s catastrophic rainfall event, they ended up in Hope, isolated by shutdown highways.
Three people still missing following deadly mudslide on B.C.’s Highway 99 “We didn’t eat for over 24 hours,” she told Global News from a hotel room booked by her partner, who is still in Metro Vancouver.“Honestly I was really scared that things were going to get worse and Hope was going to flood, and we weren’t going to get out.