{"id":130816,"date":"2021-11-18T13:23:54","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T21:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/the-100-year-old-decision-that-contributed-to-abbotsford-b-c-flooding"},"modified":"2021-11-18T13:23:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T21:23:54","slug":"the-100-year-old-decision-that-contributed-to-abbotsford-b-c-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/the-100-year-old-decision-that-contributed-to-abbotsford-b-c-flooding","title":{"rendered":"The 100-year-old decision that contributed to Abbotsford, B.C., flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IQdsRd77Gmo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>More than 100 years ago, a lake outside what is now the Abbotsford, B.C., area was drained to create lucrative farmland. Many say that decision is a big contributor to the devastating flooding.<\/p>\n<p>Watch The National live on YouTube Sunday-Friday at 9 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p>Connect with The National online:<br \/> Facebook | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thenational\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thenational<\/a>.<br \/> Twitter | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBCTheNational\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBCTheNational<\/a>.<br \/> Instagram | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cbcthenational\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cbcthenational<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More from CBC News | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\">https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The National is CBC\u2019s flagship nightly news program, featuring the day\u2019s top stories with in-depth and original journalism, with hosts Adrienne Arsenault and Andrew Chang in Toronto, Ian Hanomansing in Vancouver and the CBC\u2019s chief political correspondent, Rosemary Barton in Ottawa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 100 years ago, a lake outside what is now the Abbotsford, B.C., area was drained to create lucrative farmland. Many say that decision is a big contributor to the devastating flooding. Watch The National live on YouTube Sunday-Friday at 9 p.m. ET Connect with The National online: Facebook | https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thenational. Twitter | https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBCTheNational. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}