Cache Creek avoids further flood evacuation alerts after rainy weekend
CACHE CREEK — Village of Cache Creek officials say severe weather warnings did not live up to the expectation, and flooding potential did not worsen over the weekend.
The Village is still under a state of local emergency due to flooding danger, and the 175 properties that were put on evacuation alert on May 21 are still on alert.
Friday and Saturday (May 29, 30), special weather statements had warned of significant rainfall and thunderstorms for the region. While it wasn’t quite the severity that was forecast, Village Emergency Operation Centre spokesperson Wendy Coomber says the Cache Creek area did still experience heavy rain.
“So it’s looking pretty damp here. We got quite a bit of rain here overnight. About 23 mm, which is about one-third of what we’ve gotten for the entire month of May,” she explains, “So it was quite a bit for us, but not more than we could handle I think.”