The catastrophic landslide that tore through Highway 99 south of Lillooet was not merely a geological event; it was a sudden, violent erasure of life that has left the province of British Columbia in a state of profound mourning and introspection. When the rain-saturated mountainside finally gave way, it didn’t just slide—it surged with a predatory speed, swallowing a section of the vital mountain corridor and transforming a routine drive into a graveyard of mud and twisted metal. For the families caught in the path of the debris, the world ended in a roar of earth and rock, leaving behind a silence that search teams have spent days trying to break. Continue reading…
