Bracing for Disasters is an occasional series investigating how to support evacuees and save lives as extreme weather worsens in B.C.
In This Series
Bracing for Disasters
Climate calamities will increase in BC. What can we learn from survivors? What must be done to help evacuees and save lives? A special Tyee series.
‘A Major Gap’ in BC’s Disaster Evacuation Support
Most victims are displaced far longer than the province’s aid system assumes, shows data analyzed by The Tyee.
How We Crunched the Data on Disaster Survivors
Not much was easily at hand. So we came up with a solution. A Tyee Q&A with Jens von Bergmann.
What I Saved from the Disaster
Nine climate catastrophe survivors share what they fought to keep as they fled for their lives, in words and pictures.
Surviving Disaster Is Just the First Hurdle
BC has long faced ‘gaps’ in emergency aid that compound the nightmare. Evacuees told us what needs fixing. A Tyee special report.
How You Can Be Ready for the Next Disaster
As fires and floods again beset BC, here are tips and resources from survivors and experts.
What Climate Disaster Survivors Need to Heal Their Minds
Grappling with trauma and loneliness, Lytton’s displaced offer lessons in an era of rising risks.
Surviving, in Their Own Words
Meet 11 British Columbians who share their climate calamity ordeals and offer lessons for what’s to come.
We Gathered Experts to Map BC’s Disaster Future
Watch this video discussion of how to empower communities in the era of climate crisis.
Fifteen Lessons from ‘Bracing for Disasters’
We spent months learning from fire and flood survivors, responders and experts. This caps our series.