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January 8, 1984

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“THAT SGUND you’ve been hearing is the sighs of
felief from-"West .Vancoyver, residents who have
“twice this winter faced“’flooded basements and
feverish activity on the river banks.

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"The relief came twice dur-
ing the past week because the

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Concern was raised
throughout the week that
heavy rainfall, combined with
rapidly warming  tempera-
tures that dropped snow
levels in area mountains,
would again spill creek water
into homes.

Residents along Cypress
Creek watched thewater with
considerable interest, fearing

that, for ‘the third, time since.

early November,. they'd be
inundated. ”

Of particular concern were
weather reports Wednesday
and again Thursday that ma-
jor storm activity accom-
panied by heavy rainfall was
expected. +

But while forecasters wer
predicting as much as five in
ches of rain for the mountain
areas of the North Share on
both nights, the storms cither
passed quickly or did not ar-
rive aPall.

What rain there was was
steady but gentile and water-

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‘Predicted deluge doesn’ t show

ways such as Cypress Creek
were able to handle the water
for the most part.

While there were still in-
cidents of flooded basements
and soggy yards, the problem
was not nearly as bad as it
has been in the past several
months.

North Vancouver District,
in fact, may have been hit
harder than West Vancouver,
which has borne the brunt of
flooding activity this year.

Early in the week when
rainfalls “were heavier, the
North Vancouver District fire
department received 14 re-
quests for help with flooded
basements and the district
municipality anothet 13 dur-
ing a three and a half hour
period.

Another ‘station
feels thief’s

FOR THE second time in a month, a West Van-
couver gas station has been hit by a late-night thief.

Thursday evening at 10:45
p.m. the Gulf station at 1490
Manne Drive was hit for ap
proximately $1,000 by a lonc
male who demanded the
moncy from two tills inside
the station

The man, who indicated he
was armed but who did not
produce a weapon, stuffed

his take into a canvas bag and
then fled the scene on foot

Police were quickly on the
scene with a tracking dog but
he lost the scent, leading
police to believe the thief ran '
only as far as a waiting car.

There are similarities bet-
ween Thursday's theft and
another that occured Dec. 19

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at an E¥si¥ station located in
the same area.

In that incident a lone male
escaped on foot after robbing
the station at 10:45 p.m. ona
Monday night. He, too, is
believed to have ran to a vehi-
cle and driven away from the
scene of the crime.

Police don’t however,
believe there is a connection
because of different descrip-
tions of the thieves given by
victims.