A woman, originally from Rosenort, is now living in Abbotsford and is currently hosting a family that can't get back to their home.

The Fraser Valley has experienced extreme flooding over the last few days, multiple highways have been washed out or blocked by landslides, and parts of Abbotsford have been evacuated.

Ellen Friesen says, fortunately, her house is high and dry but she can see a lot of the flooding and damage.

“From our window, we can see everything down below, the Trans-Canada Highway, what they call the Sumas Prairie that's flooded and so I feel we have a visual of what is happening which is amazing. To see how the water just kept coming and coming.”

With a clear view of Highway 1, Friesen says “The Trans-Canada is covered. I don't think I have ever seen it where a car or a truck has not been driving on the Trans-Canada. This is unique.”

Friesen notes not everyone has been as lucky as she has been.

“It just so happens that friends of ours spent the night in the McDonalds and they were rescued this morning with a boat and they made it up to our house and so we have evacuees at our house and I just read that some of the hotels aren't even open and so the people that are evacuated, now it is a matter of 'where do I go?”

In addition, Friesen says there are many dairy and chicken farms in the low-lying parts of Abbotsford and she feels horrible for them as their livelihoods are in danger.

For now, she notes there isn’t much to do but sit around.

"We are all kind of stuck in our homes because we are not supposed to be out there. If we didn't have social media, I wouldn't know half of the stuff that I know. I would say that we are more in the loop because the Abbotsford Police Department has a Facebook Page and they are really good at keeping us updated because we have kind of been hunkered down in our houses."