One year after a torrential atmospheric river pummeled B.C.’s south coast, dumping more than 200 millimetres of rain on certain areas over the course of a weekend, some residents are still picking up the pieces.

Adam Swain is still getting rid of debris from his flooded basement and Ali Mirzai is suing for damages as his insurance will not cover.

And still others sift through the wreckage of a Coquitlam home swept away in a mudslide, killing a beloved local teacher.

Locals that came together over the weekend to clean up the possessions of Sonia McIntyre.

She was 57 years old when the atmospheric river claimed her life, one of four people who passed away as the result of the deadly deluge in Port Coquitlam.

Evidence of the flooding is scattered around Hyde Creek for those affected. It’

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