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ThereвЂ™s also the floodwater itself, which can stir up harmful bacteria such as e-coli. households affected by the flooding, according to B.C. The Red Cross has distributed $5.8 million to B.C. Insurance companies will have to assess the damage to flooded homes, for those who have insurance that covers flooding. In general, Bardet says, homes with deeper foundations fare better, and homes affected by higher floodwaters fare worse. Home foundations could be affected by flooding in a variety of ways - through erosion of the ground around it, causing the foundation to cave in, or pooling of water that can cause the foundation to swell.Д®ither way, shifts to the foundation are all but certain to cause a houseвЂ™s structure to warp, potentially leaving the entire home uninhabitable. вЂњThis would be very expensive to fix and could actually generate all kinds of damage to the structure on top of the foundation.вЂќ вЂњIf the slab or the foundation is damaged, this could be really, really detrimental,вЂќ he says. Jean-Pierre Bardet, the University of MiamiвЂ™s former dean of engineering, with expertise in water and civil engineering, says that severe flooding can damage the foundation of homes, which precipitates widespread structural damage. Work to repair those homes will be long and costly. Several highways serving as key connections between Vancouver and the rest of the country had sections obliterated.ДЄt the height of the flooding, 17,000 people were evacuated from 6,900 homes across the province.

About 500 cattle and tens of thousands of chickens drowned in the Sumas region of Abbotsford.

The bodies of four people were recovered after a highway mudslide that swept away at least five. What is known as the storms come to an end is that B.C.вЂ™s November rainfall was deadly and destructive.

The personal toll on people whose homes were flooded, and whose livestock perished underwater, is another cost that will never be fully accounted.

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The full scale of the task ahead is not yet determined, but officials say repairing the damaged infrastructure will be costlier than any disaster in recent memory in B.C. will change gears from sandbagging and rescuing people in fishing boats and helicopters, to a massive and painful cleanup effort. With the start of the new month, a barrage of unprecedented rainstorms were forecast to end, providing respite from the looming threat of floods and landslides sweeping away peopleвЂ™s homes, livelihoods and even lives. Wednesday, the first day of December, marked a turning of a page for storm-battered southern British Columbia. As the flooding increased, Forsberg, who works at the recycling plant, saw the water overtake it and had trouble sleeping, wondering if his home would be next.