ICYMI: Return to High River: 10 years after the 2013 flood — 'Build it back better'
“It’s still a sensitive thing for a lot of people here,” says High River Mayor Craig Snodgrass, who took on the job in the fall of 2013 after he became frustrated with the slow pace of recovery in the months after the flood. He’s well aware that the approach of the anniversary has many watching with worry at even the slightest bout of June rainfall.
The more than $200 million in government funding that eventually came through, however, was put to good use. “It was an interesting time,” she says understatedly of the early post-flood period, when many people tried to back out of house purchases, while others couldn’t get insurance on the homes they wanted to buy. Mouser and her husband Aaron, a realtor in the area for more than a quarter century, also found themselves in a crunch, with mortgages on four revenue properties and no tenants to pay rent.
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