When the Water Takes the Road: Flood Survival, Community Failure, and Knowing When to Get Out
Every spring in Canada, somewhere loses the fight with water. Not a basement. Not a backyard. An entire area. It starts upstream—snowpack melting across vast ground, rivers pushing beyond capacity, ice jams breaking loose without warning. What follows isn’t a slow inconvenience. It’s lateral movement. Water spreads across land, not just along channels, and once…
