It’s been just over a week since Steven Rice was allowed to return to his home along Highway 8 in British Columbia’s Interior and the river that forced him to evacuate six months ago is surging again.
Rice’s home near Spences Bridge, B.C., was covered by one of several flood watches across the province Saturday, as heavy rains combined with warming weather and threatened to push some rivers over their banks.
“It’s a raging mass of muddy brown water that’s just gone wild,” Rice, an electoral area director for the Thompson-Nicola Regional District, said of the Nicola River bordering his property….