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The scale of the disaster unfolding in B.C. is unprecedented (Flooding)
Vancouver Sun ^ | Nov 16, 2021 | Terry Glavin

Posted on 11/17/2021 5:49:27 AM PST by texas booster

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To: bert
Agreed. The Fraser River has had many major floods, including 1894 and 1948.

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.

21 posted on 11/17/2021 6:39:07 AM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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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!


22 posted on 11/17/2021 6:44:40 AM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us esse delendam)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

Amen to that. Good post.


23 posted on 11/17/2021 6:48:36 AM PST by laplata
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To: texas booster

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.


24 posted on 11/17/2021 7:01:41 AM PST by Wuli
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Seems a tadly bit damp.


25 posted on 11/17/2021 7:03:02 AM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged )
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Yes, I would say that tadly is the proper word for such dampness. ;)


26 posted on 11/17/2021 7:24:10 AM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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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.


27 posted on 11/17/2021 7:25:20 AM PST by hecticskeptic
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To: texas booster

And to think, they never had floods before Global Warming. Never.


28 posted on 11/17/2021 7:26:48 AM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: Flick Lives; canuck_conservative; EVO X; bert
The floods didn't start in 2021 and they won't be controlled by the Trudeau government. From another article on the Fraser River Valley floods:

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 ...

29 posted on 11/17/2021 7:39:31 AM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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BTW it looks like a lot of stuff happened about 11,500 years ago ...

The ancient Great Flood story appears in every culture. It is interesting.


30 posted on 11/17/2021 8:24:53 AM PST by Flick Lives (The future is a quiet world)
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To: texas booster

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.


31 posted on 11/17/2021 9:43:00 AM PST by EVO X ( )
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To: texas booster

To your point...

https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/water-overview/quantity/floods/events-british-columbia.html


32 posted on 11/17/2021 9:45:33 AM PST by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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