Merritt, B.C., following unprecedented highway closures due to flooding.And it’s starting to get rougher as sanitation needs continue to go unmet and food supplies dwindle.“I was about to go pick up a load on the coast and that didn’t happen because the flooding on the Coquihalla, and I am stuck here because there are no highways to get me home,” David Rusch from Salmon Arm, said.“I’ve been driving truck(s) for 30 years and I never experienced anything like this.” More than 1,100 homes evacuated in Abbotsford, B.C.
amid flooding concerns Between the Esso station and a nearby Walmart, Rusch estimated there could be several hundred truckers in the same position.