“In the interval of about 30 minutes while (her) husband frantically made a number of attempts running back and forth to get help, (Nakamura) was left alone in the midst of the swirling and rising waters and she thought she was going to die.” The claim filed this month says she managed to cling to a tree hanging over the river, and was forced to climb higher as the water rose around her. Nakamura slipped and fell getting off the rock and became separated from her husband, who made it to shore, her lawsuit says. 1, 2020, when water from the 91-metre dam came pouring down the canyon, rising rapidly by nearly 3.6 metres and killing two fishermen downstream. Supreme Court lawsuit says there had been no warning on Oct. The notice of civil claim filed by Chihiro Nakamura nearly two years after the incident says she and her husband were sitting on a rock in a shallow part of the Capilano River below the Cleveland Dam when they heard a rushing sound. A woman who clung to a tree and whose husband saw a “wall of water rushing toward them” as they fled a torrent released from a North Vancouver dam are suing Metro Vancouver’s regional district for negligence.
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