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.
(Excerpt) Read more at vancouversun.com ...
The Yangtze watershed is enormous, and the Chinese have been building along side it forever it seems. Which just increases the damage.
The headlines tell a dramatic story.
As the newspapers reported, in the spring of 1948, the Fraser River overflowed its banks and destroyed dikes. The flood forced the evacuation of 16,000 people, destroyed or damaged 2,300 homes, left 1,500 people homeless and resulted in $150 million in damage.
Ten people drowned.
“How do you describe those times?” asks Barrie Peterson, an Agassiz senior who graduated from high school the year of the flood. “They were hard. You can’t really know unless you were there. Like everything else, you cope with it. And afterwards you start over.”
Like many of the people who lived through 1948, Peterson believes the Fraser River will flood again — and he fears we’re not prepared.
“People have forgotten the power of the river,” he says.
My prayers go out to those affected by this terrible situation. Protection for the Believers and an awakening among the non-Believers, as to God’s sovereignty.
The BC gubmint put 3,000 health care workers on ‘unpaid leave’ for refusing the ‘gene therapy’ jabs. Without knowing the numbers, I would suspect that many who refused, refused due to their faith. The BC gubmint is left-wing, being a coalition of New Democrats and Green Parties, and VERY anti-Christian and anti-family.
This ‘unusual’ weather, may be a sign that God has finally removed his protection from a Province that has turned from Him. Alberta overlord comrade ‘Justin’ Kenney and Canadian Prime Mistake True-dolt, both having been edjumacated in Jesuit schools, would be WISE to heed the warnings!
I expect something TERRIBLE to befall Alberta very soon, as overlord Kenney has chosen to arrest Preachers of the Word and close churches in Alberta.
May the Lord have mercy on His people!
Amen to that. Good post.
And south of there in lower Washington state and Oregon, dry as can be.
Due to a difference this year in the air currents passing from the Eurasian continent & east from the Indian Ocean then on over the Pacific to North America. Some areas getting less moisture and some getting more. Whenever there is “greater” rain carrying clouds somewhere there is usually “less” rain arriving somewhere else. Total “global” rainfall has likely not changed.
Seems a tadly bit damp.
Yes, I would say that tadly is the proper word for such dampness. ;)
Remember that 9 out of 10 Canadians believes that mankind is a major effector of Earth’s climate.
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I highly doubt that.... sounds like something True-Dolt says that everyone knows isn’t true.
And to think, they never had floods before Global Warming. Never.
Legend tells of a Musqueam (Indian) prophet who foretold a large flood.
“He went out and told all the people, but they didn’t believe him,” says Mohs. “They said there’s always been flooding here.”
But when the water rose, the people fled their village and took shelter in a cave on Sumas Mountain, in what is now Abbotsford. The water came up 90 metres.
Mohs says the story can be traced back 11,500 years.
“But those days are gone. In the days of the really high water, the people were free to move to higher ground. They can’t do that now. First Nations communities are like municipalities in a way. They’re dependent on flood control.”
BTW it looks like a lot of stuff happened about 11,500 years ago ...
BTW it looks like a lot of stuff happened about 11,500 years ago ...
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The ancient Great Flood story appears in every culture. It is interesting.
I am not familiar with west coast Canada other than watching Highway to Hell. That said, Ontario Canada is no stranger to washed out roads because of rain storms.
To your point...
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