The Nasty Weather Thread

[palmerq]

Made it back home after being stuck for two nights on the wrong side of the flood, they managed to clear the landslides on the road on the other side of the Fraser River, it's quite a detour but it works. Part of the road seems damaged so it was one lane alternating traffic for a few kms(which takes a long time)....

Quite a disaster.. Some various links.
The worst stuff is further inland where small bridges are falling down and roads collapsing :S

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/coqu...ns-washed-away

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59324764

Then an RV rental place catches fire :S


https://globalnews.ca/video/8380287/...with-flooding/



Looks like the water is coming down pretty quick too which is nice... I'm still not going to work for the rest of the week though,...

[Spicoli]

That's brutal how are you faring bud? Any damage close to home and hope you don't have any cresting waterways close by. Saw some footage yesterday and looks all to familiar. Smart man opting to wait and detour, rule number 1..don't drown turn around. Once the bridges go it's literally life changing. Stay safe stay dry!

[palmerq]

Smart man opting to wait and detour, rule number 1..don't drown turn around. Once the bridges go it's literally life changing. Stay safe stay dry!

That was more luck and the fact the road got closed pretty quick.. Police announced it would be closed at 6pm so we left around 4 but by the time we got to the section of road(maybe 5kms away) it was flooded and they were turning people off.. (some pictures below).. And once we were back a bin had blown over and that was it :S...... The main parts of the cities down here are mostly fine but the low lying are which has a lot of farms is buggered and I'm pretty sure a lot of animals have died and who knows what damage will have been done to the free way a good few km was under water for a while.

Currently a levee is being built(even the army are here :S) along the freeway because the water is rising pretty bad in some parts and there's a fair whack of rain forecast for next Tuesday(100+mm) so without drastic measures things could get pretty bad and the water could overwhelm a lot more stuff where many more live. The unfortunate part of this is the way they are direct the flood water out is going to flood maybe ten houses, which is terrible for the people that live there as that are was a former shallow lake that was drained maybe 100 years ago to make the farm land so those unfortunate gits probably don't have insurance for this, they'll lose the house.

Saying that, the worst is definently further inland where big chunks of the roads and bridges have fallen down, poor gits. Merritt was totally evacuated and flooded and that's after they were all evacuated due to the wildfires a few months ago :S... Look up some of the pictures on the coquihalla route, that's a pretty major route too.

Overall though it could have been much worse, everyone responded pretty quick and there's only been on death confined so far(which is of course one too many) but there are around a further three missing.


Photos below(used a link because they might be big, and also upside down) taken from the passenger side whilst driving back, water got pretty high on the car, lucky to make it through(we were only in the water for a few mins)

Fire brigade were rowing a dingy up to peoples houses along the road too :S
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[Master]

That is a lot of damage and will take years to get over. Is this British Colombia?

[palmerq]

That is a lot of damage and will take years to get over. Is this British Colombia?

Yes sumas is a bit east of Vancouver and then tree damage inland seems to stretch for a while :S.

Fuel limits in place for a week or two which no one is going to follow