Floods and wildfires are now normal life in small-town Canada

Locals traumatised by the scorching heat of the summer are having to rebuild their lives once again after massive flooding

When flood waters swept away the highways in and out of Tricia Thorpe's small town in the Canadian province of British Columbia, there was no way in or out for days. For a while, it seemed the road out of her property would be destroyed too.

My eldest daughter thought I was going to flip out when there was no road access out," said Thorpe, who lives in the small community of Lytton in Canada's mountainous west, nearly 185 miles (300km) north-east of Vancouver by road.