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And, perhaps most importantly, the necessity of digging in when times take an unexpected turn.
The Insurance Bureau of Canada says the flooding across southern Alberta that summer led insurers to pay out $1.8 billion, making it one of the most expensive disasters in the country’s history. Local authorities also promoted the importance of buying local to support hometown companies, a theme that would resurface during the pandemic.
Owners Kene Cheung and his wife Jade Tea, who’d run the store since 2003, saw the building knocked down in 2014 after the flooding, recalls their son, Sam Cheung. Vin Room owner Phoebe Fung stands on the restaurant’s second floor deck. Ten years ago she watched from the same spot as flood waters filled the streets of Mission.Like Latruwe, Fung had flood insurance. In the early moments of the flood, she took action to put in an insurance claim, secure pumps and generators, and hire tradespeople for the rebuild.
For Brian Beck and staff at Cococo Chocolatiers, now known as Cocoa Community Confections, the flood in June 2013 posed an imminent threat to the Calgary-based business.Article contentShortly after the flooding, Beck and a company employee managed to get into the building’s basement on 1st Street S.E., where its chocolate factory was situated, although the building had lost its electricity.
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