Residents in and around the Village of Pemberton and District of Squamish are being asked to shelter in place Thursday morning as “numerous weather-related emergencies” in the region are making travel dangerous, officials say. The Squamish Lillooet Regional District says several roads in the Pemberton Valley have become impassable due to flooding, including parts of Pemberton Meadows Road and Highway 99. It says residents should stay where they are if they are safely able to do so, and keep essential supplies and grab-and-go bags at the ready. Residents are asked to exercise extreme caution on all roads in the region. A shelter in place advisory is also in place for the Paradise Valley in the District of Squamish, where Paradise Valley Road is closed at Paradise Valley Bridge and Squamish Valley Road is closed at Pilchuck Bailey Bridge due to flooding. An evacuation order for properties on Airport Road in Pemberton remains in effect, as does an evacuation alert for the entire Village of Pemberton. Southern B.C. has experienced multiple deluges of rain over the past several days, with totals surpassing 100 millimetres in some areas. Sea to Sky officials say heavy rain is no longer expected, at least through Friday. Some rainfall warnings lifted by Thursday morning, but remained for parts of Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast. It was the warmest Nov. 11 on record in more than two dozen B.C. communities on Wednesday, with temperatures surpassing 20 C in parts of the Interior and Fraser Valley.
