Vancouver Port, Rail, Roads Emerge From Flood Crisis, Slowly

The floodwaters are receding and roads and rail lines are being repaired. But it’s still likely to take weeks for Canada’s biggest port to work through its backlog of cargo and vessels after historic rainfall left British Columbia soaked and isolated.

Storms dropped enormous volumes of rain on the province in November, forcing evacuations, drowning hundreds of thousands of livestock, and temporarily cutting off Vancouver from the rest of the country by road and rail.