A shelter-in-place advisory has been issued north of Vancouver, where roads have flooded due to dam run-off triggered by storms that have drenched parts of southern British Columbia with more than 300 millimetres of rain in 48 hours. The rains that are forecast to ease Thursday before a weaker system arrives Friday have also forced evacuation orders for parts of Vancouver Island, the Lil’wat First Nation in the central Interior, and parts of the Village of Pemberton, about 150 kilometres north of Vancouver. The entire Village of Pemberton is under an evacuation alert, while the District of Squamish about 90 kilometres to the south has told residents of Paradise Valley to shelter in place after dam discharge swamped local roads. British Columbia’s emergency information system says residents in areas including…
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