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A woman with dark hair and hoop earrings stands in a snowing clearing holding a brown rifle.
Loss of Homes
investigation

What I saved from the disaster

By Francesca Fionda

A photo of Sandy Ibrahim sitting on a bench holding produce from a garden.
2021 Western North American Heat Wave
testimony

“My generation could have stopped this.”

Sandy Ibrahim, Victoria, Canada

A photo of Tosh Sherkat in front of a large rock wearing glasses and a bright plaid shirt.
2021 Southern British Columbia Floods
testimony

“We’re just throwing bolts into the rock and crushing plants.”

Tosh Sherkat, Victoria, Canada

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2021 Southern British Columbia Floods
testimony

“I’m still going through it”

Donna Rae, Merritt, Canada

2021 Southern British Columbia Floods
testimony

“Thirty seconds of this violence.”

Wanda Turner, Chilliwack, Canada

2021 Southern British Columbia Floods
testimony

“You can’t stop because of a setback like that.”

Corry Spitters, Sumas Prairie, Canada

2021 Southern British Columbia Floods
testimony

“There was nothing we could do.”

Jeff and Cheryl Morrow, Langford, Canada

2021 Western North American Heat Wave
testimony

“The heat wave validated a lot of my fears about climate change”

Jasna Rowse, Langley, Canada

2021 Southern British Columbia Floods
testimony

“It’s like cutting off a lifeline.”

Cyndie Anderson, Mission, Canada

Extreme Windstorms
testimony

“Home doesn’t feel safe right now.”

Hannah Seaton, North Vancouver, Canada

2021 Western North American Heat Wave
testimony

“I felt weak and I wanted to go home.”

Kristen De Jager, Langley, Canada

2010 Hurricane Igor
testimony

“It was apocalyptic.”

Leslie Amminson, St. John's, Canada

2021 British Columbia Wildfires
testimony

“There wasn’t really any escape from it.”

Seth Forward

2021 Western North American Heat Wave
testimony

“The heat was just so dense and thick.”

Sophie Thomas, Nanaimo, Canada

2017 British Columbia Wildfires
testimony

“I don’t know how many fires we can avoid.”

Kaitlyn Nightingale, Summerland, Canada

2021 Southern British Columbia Floods
testimony

“It just had shown up overnight.”

Sarah Suleman, Victoria, Canada

2013 Southern Alberta Floods
testimony

“I couldn’t imagine it going back to normal.”

Ashlee Levy, Okotoks, Canada

2021 Western North American Heat Wave
testimony

“I can’t just press pause… I have to go through this.”

Claudia Culley, Clearwater, Canada

2021 Western North American Heat Wave
testimony

“Oh my God this isn’t normal.”

Abby Luciano, Vancouver, Canada

2015 Coastal Erosion
testimony

“It feels like you’re being eaten, slowly eaten away at the edges.”

Jordan Kovacs, Otres, Cambodia

2021 Western North American Heat Wave
testimony

“You can’t ignore it, because you’re in it.”

Julie Chapman, East Vancouver, Canada

2021 British Columbia Wildfires
testimony

“In order to survive, you have to be a dreamer.”

Suzanne Kilroy/Huculak, East Vancouver, Canada

2021 Western North American Heat Wave
testimony

“It was hard for anybody to take care of themselves”

DJ O’Brien, East Vancouver, Canada

2021 Western North American Heat Wave
testimony

“I was losing it just because of the heat.”

Mike McNeely, East Vancouver, Canada

2021 British Columbia Wildfires
testimony

“I pray for them that they all get their lives back.”

Peter Thompson, East Vancouver, Canada

2021 Western North American Heat Wave
testimony

“When you’re so used to disaster in your life, you learn to go with the flow”

Yvonne Mark, East Vancouver, Canada

A photo of Shoshauna Routley standing in a grassy field wearing a beige baseball cap and quilted jacket.
2021 Southern British Columbia Floods
testimony

“Where is the water coming from?”

Shoshauna Routley, Abbotsford, Canada

A photo of Alison Arends wearing a plaid coat and glasses in front of a barn of cows and looking off into the distance.
2021 Southern British Columbia Floods
testimony

“It was the most important thing I’ve ever done in my lifetime.”

Alison Arends, Sumas Prairie, Canada

A photo of Brian Mirea wearing a black coat in a very dark room, his face half in shadow.
2021 Southern British Columbia Floods
testimony

“It was just water everywhere for miles and miles.”

Brian Mirea, Abbotsford, Canada

A photo of Ryan Kehler in a plaid shirt and green knit hat.
2021 Southern British Columbia Floods
testimony

“We were locked in there for four days.”

Ryan Kehley, Harrison Hot Springs, Canada

A photo of Mikaela Robinson wearing a black puffer jacket.
2021 Southern British Columbia Floods
testimony

“Twenty-four hours without any food or water.”

Mikaela Robinson, Hope, Canada

A portrait of Jordi Williams wearing glasses, a black jacket and grey hat.
2021 Southern British Columbia Floods
testimony

“We almost rescued a crocodile.”

Jordi Williams, Chilliwack, Canada

A photo of Sandy Ibrahim sitting on a bench holding produce from a garden.
2021 Western North American Heat Wave
testimony

“My generation could have stopped this.”

Sandy Ibrahim, Victoria, Canada

A photo of Tosh Sherkat in front of a large rock wearing glasses and a bright plaid shirt.
2021 Southern British Columbia Floods
testimony

“We’re just throwing bolts into the rock and crushing plants.”

Tosh Sherkat, Victoria, Canada

A photo of Gage Smith wearing a black canvas jacket with a suburb in the background.
2017 British Columbia Wildfires
testimony

“That was when climate change started to really kind of feel a little bit more real.”

Gage Smith, Chilliwack, Canada

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