Local Flooding

Talked to my guy in Chilliwack and it’s all hands on deck tonight for the volunteers and the SAR resources in the valley. More evacuation orders have been issued and they’re scrambling to evacuate some of the folks who’ve been ignoring the orders.
The next few days will be challenging for the people in the interior and the valley. There’s a lot of rain is in the forecast for mid week and then there’s a cold front coming in right before the weekend.

www.abbynews.com

‘Tiger Dam’ being built on Highway 1 in Abbotsford to hold back floodwaters

Ministry of Transportation begins work Sunday night; freeway closed to all traffic
www.abbynews.com www.abbynews.com
 
Wow, fasten your seat belts, Lower Mainland guys and gals.....here we go again:

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I read the moisture plume extends all the way to the Philipines...has the potential to be November 15 all over again.....:(
 
The November 15 storm came in from the SW....this one is coming straight from the West , hitting VI and the lower mainland....they're already predicting flooding for the rivers in my neighborhood...hopefully there's some lag time before this next storm hits to give the already swollen rivers a chance to come down a bit from the rain this past weekend
 
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Seems to have made land-fall later then predicted..... and coming in directly from the West (instead of the SW like the last one), this one seems to be associated with signifcant rain-shadows depending on where you live......unfortunately, the radar rain projections I looked at tonight seem to show the moisture plume has the Lower Mainland in its cross-hairs.....hope that’s not the case
 
We’ve been getting heavy rain this evening around the north shore mountains and the tricities. Walked by the river this afternoon and she was raging and pumping mud again. Heard on the news that it’s flooded around the Hatzic island and valley in Mission. North side of the Fraser is now receiving a lot of moisture for this round.
 
Ringo said:
We’ve been getting heavy rain this evening around the north shore mountains and the tricities. Walked by the river this afternoon and she was raging and pumping mud again. Heard on the news that it’s flooded around the Hatzic island and valley in Mission. North side of the Fraser is now receiving a lot of moisture for this round.
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think your bang on seem like it’s raining harder this time on the north side of the Fraser
 
What is really sad is how many communities and houses there are bordering Hwy 8. IF you look at aerial vids, you can see why it would be so complex and cost-prohibitive to rebuild that Hwy but meanwhile, there are people without power that must feel completely abandoned ..... and all this after ther fires they just went through...
 
Completely unfortunate unforeseeable clime fuelled tragic disaster , everyone did there best, everyone has done amazing coming together in support.

build back better
 
My wife and I were discussing last night how awefull it is to see peoples homes ruined by these events. Must be so heartbreaking and devastating to see your home in the state some are in out there. While one feels a little angered in a way that people would place their homes in such an area that has the potential to be destroyed by something so obvious it’s still heartbreaking to see.

As humans keep encroaching more and more onto spaces not properly suited for occupation we are going to keep seeing more and more of this. Blame it on what ever you want,, its just Mother Nature going about her business and we are getting in her path.
 
Will we see the essential travel order lifted on the Hope Princeton once fuel supply normalizes in the Lower Mainland? Was understandable with few people able to leave the city with a full tank, they'd arrive in Princeton looking to fill up and facilities there unable to handle the combined volume of all the traffic. And of course next potential fuel stop for those heading to hwy 1/Alberta route would be Merritt, same problem there.

The province is very risk averse all of a sudden, they took a lot of criticism for lack of warning about the mega rain. Now they're preemptively shutting down the roads whenever it looks wet. Big pendulum swing.

The other thing is the onset of winter. The truckers keep crashing on the hairpin corners at the Princeton end of hwy 3. The road has to close to get them extracted and that would leave a lot of public sitting in place until it reopens. It's a reasonably foreseeable situation and likely to keep happening until the Coq reopens. What is the right thing to do? Keep the public off the road for their own safety until end of January? Or let them on it and take precautions as we always did when traveling any highway in winter?
 
During yesterday’s news conference reporters repeatedly ask if the high way 3 would be open to normal traffic by Christmas and they refused to answer.

they said with just the trucker traffic the rout is slow and takes twice as long.
 
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