By Rochelle Baker Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The floodwaters rose swiftly and silently inside Nicole Norris’s family home and other residences of the Halalt First Nation on Vancouver Island when a storm unleashed a furious deluge of rain in November 2021.   Her brother, asleep in the home’s ground-floor suite, awoke when his leg, hanging off the side of the bed, became submerged by overflow from the Chemainus River, said Norris, an Indigenous planning officer for the B.C. Ministry of Emergency Management and Climate Readiness.   “Our home took on four feet of water in the basement. There was no sound to it,” said Norris, also known as Alag?a?mi?.   “Instantly, he yelled for my daughter and they were able to start pulling things from the basement.”   Not everything

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