Some residents near Likely, B.C., are still waiting for help from the government after a landslide that occurred there on July 16.
The slide cut off about 15 homes and one family was forced to escape in their boat when the slide came down.
Three thousand cubic metres of debris crashed down and the slide is about three-metres deep and 100-metres long.
Dawn Woosley, the daughter-in-law of the landslide victims who had to flee in the boat, says her family and other are receiving no insurance or government disaster assistance.
She says her family was at home when the slide happened, and when her mother got up to check what the loud noises were, she saw a lot of water, debris and mud rushing past their home.
“They grabbed the dog and her and her partner, Ron Woosley, ran out the back of the house and into their boat to get away, because their vehicles were completely submerged under water,” says Woosley.
“They said it was really scary.”
The Woosleys’ home and cars are destroyed.
WATCH: Video provided by the Cariboo Regional District
They made an application to the Provincial Emergency Program for assistance, as there is no insurance, but they were denied.
“I think it might have something to do with it not causing a state of emergency within the town of Likely,” says Woosley. “But I’m not 100 per cent sure of that as of yet.”
The decision is currently in the appeal process, but the Woosleys are still living in their house with no phone and no power. They are hoping to move into a trailer on their property soon.
Their future is unknown and they are unsure whether they are going to try and rebuild. A GoFundMe account has been set up to help them, but it has only raised $100 so far.
The Cariboo Regional District believes the cause of the landslide was a failed beaver dam on an upstream lake. They have expressed frustration that no assistance has come from the government as well.
PHOTOS: Landslide cuts off homes near Likely, B.C.
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