You Folks in British Columbia

[slimt]

Stay safe.

 

[dadsbee]

It's a cluster f that's for sure!

 

[sam dupont]

VIDEO:
15 seconds in, a guy finally got the okay for sex

 

[Runcharger]

Yeah: We kind of got S)&% kicked this year.

 

[bm02tj]

They think about 2 months till Coq will reopen
Stores are getting cleaned out
Should be a slow route open next couple of days

 

[CHARGERSTEVEN]

Yea,BC been hit with what ever mother nature has.Stay safe for sure

 

[gdrill]

Hang in there neighbors. I hope the casualties will be minimal. Property is one thing, but family is another.

 

[Photon440]

It was sure a torrent. Luckily my house was not flooded, but a LOT of roads and highways were shut down yesterday and still today.
The border crossing into the USA at Sumas was shut down for obvious reasons:

By mid afternoon the rains had stopped...this was a farmer's field.

Unfortunately, lives have been lost in one of the mudslides.
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/c...slide-on-b-c-highway-during-extreme-rainstorm

 

[440 4 speed]

Yea,BC been hit with what ever mother nature has.Stay safe for sure

Have a very good friend in Abbotsford, walked to the pedestrian overpass on Number 1 hwy. Nothing but water to the east.
The Sumas Prairie is to be evacuated. It is a 20 mile square lakebed drained about 1910. For the last 10,000 years it has been an overflow for the Fraser River and the Nooksack river in the USA. Last flood was about 30 years ago, what was expected. Apparently there might be several thousand milk cows left behind and possibly a million chickens.
One thing I was always told, going back I think was ( BUILD ON HIGH GROUND).
We had high water at our lake, and other lakes in the province a few years ago. Neighbours 400 feet away had to pump their holding tanks out about every 3 weeks, we had no problem. There might be a 4 foot elevation difference. One time we were lucky. We pray for all those who ar affected by this on the West Coast.

 

[sam dupont]

Wow,
I didn't realize how bad it was. I'll be looking for some place to send money

 

[kiwigtx]

VIDEO:
15 seconds in, a guy finally got the okay for sex

That's terrible. Stay safe people.

 

[71dodgechargerrt]

Been watching the news coverage. Stay safe.

 

[69rag500]

Fires in Aug. Floods in Nov. I'm moving to China...

 

[joe smith]

Fires in Aug. Floods in Nov. I'm moving to China..

I been thinking about Poland, a country that defends its borders

 

[Budnicks]

Damn that's looking bad

Stay safe my northern friends
Mother Nature is a cruel BITCH sometimes

I've driven thru/stayed in your lovely country/Territory
a few times heading to Yukon Terr. & to Alaska
so sad to see all that destruction, both floods & fires

we have alike/the common denominators are

Poor leadership of
both water or forestry management problems
of the natural resources, too concerned about eco-nazi BS
Green grant scams, some smelt, some moth, some bird,
some rodents or just 'activists' stopping all of it etc.
(moratoriums, logging or water retention, dams, electricity )
instead of helping the people/HUMANS that work, pay taxes
& keep the place going/thriving & safe

I can somewhat relate
We here in rural Calif. have some of the same types of ailments
that plague US 'NOW' too
we also never had them issues 20-25+ years ago
when we controlled/managed the water & forestry better,
logging is a huge part, they kept the forest floor clean
(in areas where humans & nature often meet)
removed the diseased trees, downed trees & cleared brush
cut logging roads 'that act as fire breaks', especially near towns/cities
& the businesses that support them too
it employs/ed millions, good-paying skilled labor jobs
& add the recreation/damns bodies of controlled waters etc.
that help tame/control-manage water retention way better,
then mother nature does in our combined 'Human/natural environments'
we need to help/control some of it...

best of luck, stay safe & try to stay dry

 

[Photon440]

Abbotsford is still under water, the province is in an official state of emergency. Trying to keep water out, the Abbotsford pumping station is moving half a million gallons of water per minute but it is getting overwhelmed from water coming in from the USA. Which makes me ask...how are you folks in Washington?

Entire cities (such as Merrit) have been evacuated so far. Tens of thousands of livestock animals are expected to be drowned as well.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/devastating-flooding-forces-184-people-184400365.html
https://www.castanet.net/news/BC/351848/Critical-pump-station-holds-overnight-in-Abbotsford

 

[gdrill]

Wow, this is beyond anything in my life's memory. Stay safe friends. Time is the only thing that is going to help now.

 

[Photon440]

It looks like it'll be a long time before disruptions get back to normal. There are four main highways that connect British Columbia with the rest of the country (Highways 1, 3, 5 and 99) and all four were shut down. Trucks, thousands of them, aren't able to move their usual steady flow of goods back and forth.

As well, both major railroads (CN and CP) have had problems with slides or bridges meaning rail traffic is disrupted too. That means that incoming rail traffic such as bulk trains of potash, coal, wheat and such won't be heading west to our ports. And the shipments destined for the east like bulk freight shipments, lumber, auto carriers and hundreds of containers per day are stuck here.

This is one of our provincial highways (#7) at Ruby Creek, used for traffic between the Vancouver area and the interior of the province.

 

[Photon440]

Another outfall from the flooding is that we now have gas rationing in place for the area. As well, more heavy rain is expected on Monday.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/wyntk-bc-floods-nov-20-1.6256765
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-record-rainfall-graphics-1.6254271

 

[gdrill]

Thank you for the updates. That last picture just reassures me of how small we are in the plan of mother nature. Our greatest accomplishments can be negated in minutes.