The mountainside near Lillooet, British Columbia, became the site of a terrifying natural catastrophe when record-breaking rainfall triggered massive mudslides, effectively turning a stretch of Highway 99, famously known as Duffey Lake Road, into a scene of unimaginable chaos and heartbreak. What began as a normal day of travel for many families turned into a fight for survival as a wall of mud, boulders, and massive, splintering evergreen trees thundered down the slope, sweeping vehicles off the road and burying them in a treacherous debris field. For the survivors, the event was a nightmare of sound and motion, described by…
