A Kelowna couple is dealing with major flood damage to their house after it was swamped by a raging creek.
Justin Evans and Kyra Casorso were awakened in the middle of the night Friday by a loud crashing noise in the basement.
Priest Creek, which runs next to the house, had jumped its banks and rushing water broke through a window.
“My husband got up at 1:30 a.m and checked the water levels and they were ok,” said Casorso. “And then we were woken up at 3 a.m. by the thundering of water coming into our basement. It sounded like we were standing right beside a huge waterfall.”
The basement was flooded several feet deep.
The couple has been pumping out the water and using an excavator to build a berm along the creek to protect their property.
The melt-water swollen creek was further bolstered by Thursday night’s rainstorm.