VANCOUVER — Floodwaters pushing in from Washington state are forcing more people from their properties in Abbotsford, B.C.

The city has ordered people to leave another 82 homes as water from the Nooksack River in the United States spread over the Fraser Valley, joining about 400 other property owners rushed out overnight.

B.C. Agriculture Minister Lana Popham says more than 160 farms are in the way of those floodwaters and are either on evacuation order or alert, although the poultry, cows and hogs are considered safe.

David Campbell with the BC River Forecast Centre says the water from the Nooksack will continue to spill into the Fraser Valley into Friday after a series of atmospheric rivers dumped up to 150 millimetres of rain in some areas since Tuesday.

North Shore Rescue says in a

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