My friend just told me about Sunshine Village:
So I was talking to a guy yesterday who works at Sunshine. He tells me there is a pretty significant creek running across the middle of the parking lot (during the flood, the existing creek took a new path, and it now cuts across the lot). The Parks people and the conservation people are in conversation as to what to do. The damage is fairly significant.
Furthermore, until a few days ago, the access road was washed out. They finally were able to patch it up enough to allow trucks to drive up there.
Oh, and the gondola … one of the footings for one of the gondola towers is questionable.
So for the past month volunteers have been hiking up part of the way to get to the village to do repairs. What sort of repairs? Well, for starters the main day lodge and the hotel have water in their basements, where all the electrical stuff is located. So those are two places that need work.
This is the first I heard of flooding in the village, all of the newspaper accounts are focusing on the parking lot.
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