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Hundreds of residents in Merritt, B.C., still out of their homes 3½ months after devastating floods

Hundreds of residents in Merritt, B.C., still out of their homes 3½ months after devastating floods

When Donna Rae moved to Merritt, B.C., from Vancouver, she bought a small retirement home where she figured she'd spend the rest of her life. But late last year, that home became filled with mud, water and debris from the Coldwater River — one of many destroyed during devastating floods in November. Now Rae, 70, says she wishes she'd never moved to the city in B.C.'s southern Interior. "Now I'm wishing I'd stayed at the coast, so I don't have to deal with this," she said.