Und der Climat Change!
Posted on 11/17/2021 5:49:27 AM PST by texas booster
At some point in the coming days the penny will drop, and we’ll all be seized of the implications attending to the ongoing disaster on Canada’s west coast. First the rain, then the wind, and soon, everything will be freezing. For starters, if you think the Canadian economy is beset by global “supply chain” bottlenecks now, you just wait.
The Port of Vancouver, North Fraser, Fraser-Surrey Docks and Deltaport are now cut off from the rest of Canada, by road and by rail. Both CN Rail and CP Rail are assessing the extent of the damage to their rail lines in the Fraser Valley and Fraser Canyon districts. Neither company knows when the trains will be moving again.
The worst rail disruptions may last only a few days, but the Coquihalla Highway — the main road route connecting Metro Vancouver with British Columbia’s southern interior and points east, with roughly three-quarters of a million commercial truck transits every year — is gone. Deputy British Columbia Premier Mike Farnsworth says it may take “several weeks or months” to re-open the highway.
Owing to several washouts and mudslides, the old southerly route — Highway 3, snaking through the Cascades, Monashees and Selkirk mountains to the Crowsnest Pass in the Rockies — is impassable. The Fraser Canyon route, northward from Hope, about 130 kilometres east of Vancouver, has been smashed by rockslides and waterfalls that burst out of nowhere from the Coast mountains over the weekend.
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This covers a large area and has severely damaged the roads and rails across BC.
And before the COP26 crowd starts barking, this has happened several times before, and as usual, the government of Canada has done nothing about it except issue commission reports that they should be better prepared.
Twit link to a video about the highway that was washed away.
About 280 kilometres east of Vancouver by a now non-functioning road, the Tulameen and Similkameen Rivers broke their dykes and burst their banks on Monday, and the rivers are now flowing through much of the town of Princeton. The temperature is dropping below freezing, the natural gas line that heats local homes is broken, the town’s water systems are wrecked, and nobody knows when things will be “normal” again.
While Princeton was drowning, the Coldwater River was venting its rage on the town of Merritt, 90 kilometres north of Princeton, and the entire community has been shut down because of the “immediate danger to public health and safety.” Roughly 7,000 people have been ordered to make their way to emergency centres in Kamloops and Kelowna.
Und der Climat Change!
it doesn’t matter- they will still cry “climate change!!”
In February, 1988 i was in Calgary for the Winter Olympics. This was long before globull warming. The chinook winds were passing through as they do every few years. The end result? I watched the 120 meter team ski jump competition in a t-shirt as it was 55 degrees out.
Abandoned transport trucks are seen on the Trans-Canada Highway in a flooded area of Abbotsford, British Columbia, on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. Photo by Darryl Dyck /Canadian Press
I guess some things can be airlifted for a while but not a lot of the bulk stuff.
Somewhere under there is the Trans-Canada Highway as it runs through Abbotsford, just one hour east of Downtown Vancouver (the overpass forming part of the Whatcom Road turnoff is visible at the top right). Abbotsford is a center of Canadian poultry farming, with the result that rising floodwaters have left whole barns filled with thousands upon thousands of drowned chickens and turkeys.
On Tuesday night, a large swath of Abbotsford was ordered to immediately evacuate after civic officials warned that the failure of a critical pumping station could lead to the “catastrophic” reformation of Sumas Lake, a body of water drained in the 1920s whose former footprint is now home to hundreds of homes and farms. “Residents need to abandon their efforts to save livestock, ignoring current orders in place and to leave the area immediately,”
#AtlasShrugs Canada style.
This basically closes the Port of Vancouver for a few months, at least.
Many reports of moving shipping down to Portland OR to try and get perishables off the freighters.
That will be a hit to the towing business of Jamie Davis and Al Quiring. Davis’ business address is on Flood Hope Rd., he might be under water.
Earth’s two-million year rain.
https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/that-time-it-rained-for-two-million-years-d885f1af850a
This link shows some of the scale of the rains.
It is from a climate change scare site, so apologies in advance for the propaganda.
I was wondering how they were doing. Hope, BC must be in bad shape. Cold and snow is going to compound the problems
Remember that 9 out of 10 Canadians believes that mankind is a major effector of Earth’s climate.
And the Trudeau federal government has already started a tweet blizzard to assist Vancouver voters.
Lots of pictures here. Highway through Hell should be interesting if they are able to film.
https://twitter.com/hashtag/bcfloods?src=hashtag_click
Compared to the flooding of the Yangtze, the BC flooding is in all respects trivial.
For Canada, it is serious however
Davis’ location does not look good on the map. https://www.bing.com/maps?q=63011+Flood+Hope+Road+Hope%2C+BC+V0X+1L2&qs=n&form=QBRE&sp=-1&pq=63011+flood+hope+road+hope%2C+bc+v0x+1l2&sc=0-38&sk=&cvid=E359D2D2722542B392E914F8CBF19493
Plus I believe his shop is down in a hole, that is the impression I got from some of the scenes from the show.
I think you’re right about them being in a low spot. It’s a very tough situation. Best to them.
Thanks for the info.
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