© Kirk Williams/CBCThe Squamish River is swollen and full of mud and debris after the heavy rain.
Heavy weekend rains, flooding and landslides have emergency responders attending to multiple locations in the Pemberton and Squamish areas.
Ryan Wainwright, Emergency Program Manager for the Squamish Lillooet Regional District, is asking those still affected by the storm to be patient.
"Understand that recovery takes a lot longer than the disaster itself," he said.
Twenty-four people have been stranded in the back country in the upper Squamish Valley, and another 20 are stuck near Pemberton due to the washout of the Lillooet Forest Service Road.
Five homes in the Birken Portage Road area remain evacuated because of a slow moving landslide that started yesterday afternoon and lasted 14 hours.
The slide has also cut access and power to the communities of N'Quatqua, D'Arcy and Devine, affecting over 200 people.
"We're communicating with them through a combinations of radios, satellite phones and couple of old rotary phones that are still working," said Wainwright.
The province is coordinating helicopter teams with Search and Rescue to airlift out those stranded in the back country.
The Pemberton and Squamish area were deluged with 150 millimetres of rain over three days, with rainfall rates peaking at eight millimetres an hour.
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