n the chaos of that November storm, the highway near Lillooet became a trap. A wall of mud and debris tore down the slope, erasing everything in its path in seconds. Vehicles vanished. Signals went dead. For search teams, the landscape turned into a shifting graveyard of unstable ground, cold rain, and fading daylight. Families clung to fragments of information, each hour stretching into a private nightmare.When the bodies of three men were finally recovered, the announcement by B.C. Chief Coroner Lisa Lapointe carried the weight of every unanswered call and every empty chair at home. The news did not bring relief so much as a hard, unyielding truth: nature\u2019s violence had left no survivors there. In the aftermath, British Columbia was reminded how fragile its mountain roads are\u2014and how quickly an ordinary journey can become a final one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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