Below is cut and paste from CBC News Canada titled "Flood Forces Vancouver Island Evacuations. Hundreds of people have had to leave their homes".
Last Updated: Friday, November 20, 2009 | 1:38 PM PT
The Canadian Press
An aerial view of the flooding in Vancouver Island's Cowichan Valley, where more drenching rains are predicted. (CBC) Dozens of homes have water "up to the doorknobs" and others are under evacuation alert after heavy rain combined with high tides to flood low-lying parts of Duncan, B.C., an hour's drive north of Victoria.
Water streamed around a network of dikes built since the 1960s, when flatlands in the city and surrounding communities were routinely inundated.
The municipality of North Cowichan, which includes Duncan and has more than 27,000 residents, declared a local state of emergency after water from the Cowichan and Koksilah rivers and several creeks spilled their banks Friday morning.
"There's been high tides in the ocean which has not allowed the rainwater to drain away fast enough," public information officer Mark Ruttan said.
"We've had a couple of schools that have closed for the day and we've had to evacuate people out of their homes. That'll be about 300 homes."
Estimates put the number flooded homes at more than 50 in North Cowichan and more in Duncan itself, Ruttan said.
"There's a number homes that were flooded up to the doorknobs".
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