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From YouTube: FEBRUARY 23 2022 Statements Bruce Banman
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The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
3rd Session
42nd Parliament
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There
is
no
doubt
the
residents
of
the
sumas
prairie
have
been
tested,
they've
experienced
the
heat
dome
and
then
a
few
very
few
short
months
later.
The
floods,
the
losses
were
catastrophic
and
at
one
point,
mr
speaker,
a
20-foot
wall
of
water
flowed
out
over
the
eastern
portion
of
sumas
prairie
and,
as
we
all
know,
farmers
and
residents
were
forced
to
escape
with
little
time
to
save
anything
but
themselves
upon
their
return.
The
true
magnitude
of
the
damages
caused
became
evident.
Many
left
were
left
with
nothing,
but
a
layer
of
mud
and
sludge.
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The
waters
took
everything
it
seemed
as
if
all
hope
vanished
with
washed
away
with
the
waters.
Mr
speaker,
farmers
and
those
who
call
this
farmland
home
are
a
special,
diverse
lot,
but
they
do
share
a
few
common
traits
and
they
are
they're
tough.
They
have
grit
and
courage.
Many
of
us
will
never
know.
I
watched
neighbors
helping
each
other
first
saving
one
another
and
then,
when
the
water's
receded,
helping
each
other
to
clean
up
and
then
begin
rebuilding
far
too
often
we
hear
about
the
negative
aspects
of
social
media.
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Currently,
its
membership
is
12
000
and
growing
daily.
They
post
what
is
needed
via
donations,
warm
boots
clothes,
work,
gloves
household
items
or
needing
volunteers
for
a
task.
It
is
grassroots,
at
its
finest,
mr
speaker,
reaching
out
to
offer
help
where
it's
needed.
So,
mr
speaker,
if
anyone
is
looking
for
a
way
to
help
go
check
out,
fraser
valley,
flood
group
on
facebook,
they
still
have
a
ton
of
work
left
to
do
and
they
could
sure
do
with
some
help.