By AVIS HOPKINS

VITAL POWER and
highway services were
expected to be restored
by Tuesday night after
rain and gale winds
gusting up to 80 m.p.h.
caused a gravel slide
onto Squamish
Highway and ripped
out power services to
Lion’s Bay.

The waters of Strachan
Creek, six kilometres north
of Horseshoe Bay, jumped
their banks in the storm,
forcing evacuation of nearby
residents.

At News press time, diving
crews were still looking for
the body of Susan Buch, a 31
year-old pregnant woman
who was swept away by the
creek Friday evening as she
and her husband fled their
nearby home.

Her husband, Allan Buch,
was admitted to Lions Gate
Hospital suffering from
shock after being rescued by

Cpl. Gordon Kiloh of the
West Vancouver Police
Department and = another

rescue worker.

Trail of devastation remains

About 38 people
altogether were evacuated
from homes near Strachan

Creek, many of them
rescued by Coast guard
hovercraft.

They were taken onto the
hovercraft while floodlights
from two B.C. ferries, the

‘Howe Sound Queen and the

Queen of Tsawwassen, split
the pitch blackness of the
beach.

WORST STORM

Rescue workers had to
fight gale winds gusting up to
80 m.p.h. at the same time,
in what Neil Moxey, captain
of the Coast Guard vessel
Moorhen, described as the
worst storm he has seen in
Howe Sound.

“It was like working in a
bath of whipped cream,” he
told the News.

“It was hard to handle the
machines and visibility was
poor.”

At one point Seamen Chris
McKay and Kelly Fraser had
to take a rubber dinghy up
the creck itself and under
the bridge to rescue stranded
residents.

Residents were taken to
Gleneagles School in

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-LOADERS were- kept
busy moving gravel
from the Strachan
Creek slide, in which an
estimated 30,000 cubic
| yards of gravel was spill-

_ ed onto Highway 99 in
heavy storm conditions
last Friday. One woman
was swept away. and 38
people had to be
evacuated from the tiny
community near the
creek. Traffic on the
highway. was limited to |
hourly intervals. (Eric = -
Eggertson photo)

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