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Officials say every viable search option has been exhausted,
but the emotional aftershocks are only beginning. Families are being notified,
names are being confirmed, and communities already battered by a year of fires, floods, and loss are
bracing for yet another funeral, or perhaps the harder fate of never knowing.
As Highway 99 stays closed and the slide zone lies eerily still,
British Columbia is left wrestling with a brutal question:
how many more lives must be buried before we learn how to protect the ones still standing.