Coastal BC is fucked.

Eightsails

Eightsails

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If anyone's planning road trips to Whistler this year, you might need to re-think. Practically all major roads into / out of Vancouver are destroyed by floods and rain. Abbotsford is about to become a lake, and Chilliwack has become an island. Tons of evacuations, and more rain on the forecast. Major disaster levels. I don't have too much hope for the sea to sky soon but we can hope.

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Both photos just of Highway 1, transcanada into vancouver / abbotsford. Even worse on the coquihalla.
 
What the fuck did you Canadians do!?

First the biblical heat waves in the summer, now this? How will the wrath of God punish thee next?
 
topic:Eightsails said:
I don't have too much hope for the sea to sky soon but we can hope.
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living in Squamish, working in whistler. The sea-to-sky itself is completely fine, duffy lake road near lytton was one of the major washouts though. I doubt any of the highways will be down for more than a couple of weeks.

but yeah holy fuck what a week.
 
ITS ALMOST LIKE CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL! OMG!!!

I WONDER IF REPUBLICUNTS CAN BREATHE UNDERWATER BECAUSE THEY SEEM CHILL WITH IGNORING IT!
 
I'm up in Kamloops, and its fucked. I actually drove through the storm from Van on Sunday evening, missed the slides by like an hour. Was a wild ass drive. The two main routes, Trans Canada and Coquihalla are gonna be shut for months, and may be years before they're fully open. The 99 through Lillooet is probably gonna be the first to open, but sounds like they're restricting it, limiting it to shipping and "essential travel". My gf lives in Van, and I really hope that a route is open to the public by mid-December. Neither of us is too stoked on spending Christmas alone.
 
14349497:SendyMcSendyface said:
I'm up in Kamloops, and its fucked. I actually drove through the storm from Van on Sunday evening, missed the slides by like an hour. Was a wild ass drive. The two main routes, Trans Canada and Coquihalla are gonna be shut for months, and may be years before they're fully open. The 99 through Lillooet is probably gonna be the first to open, but sounds like they're restricting it, limiting it to shipping and "essential travel". My gf lives in Van, and I really hope that a route is open to the public by mid-December. Neither of us is too stoked on spending Christmas alone.
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The photos are nuts. Entire sections of highways just vanished. I can't imagine what you guys are going through. The recovery of infrastructure alone is going to take ages
 
14349521:BrandoComando said:
The photos are nuts. Entire sections of highways just vanished. I can't imagine what you guys are going through. The recovery of infrastructure alone is going to take ages
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Yeah. Its affecting the interior too, people are cleaning out grocery stores with their panic buying, cause most of our produce/meat comes from the coast.
 
14349497:SendyMcSendyface said:
I'm up in Kamloops, and its fucked. I actually drove through the storm from Van on Sunday evening, missed the slides by like an hour. Was a wild ass drive. The two main routes, Trans Canada and Coquihalla are gonna be shut for months, and may be years before they're fully open. The 99 through Lillooet is probably gonna be the first to open, but sounds like they're restricting it, limiting it to shipping and "essential travel". My gf lives in Van, and I really hope that a route is open to the public by mid-December. Neither of us is too stoked on spending Christmas alone.
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Glad you're safe, homie. Apparently the border is open for stranded people without a covid screening but kamloops is pretty far north that would be a heck of a drive.

14349540:SendyMcSendyface said:
Yeah. Its affecting the interior too, people are cleaning out grocery stores with their panic buying, cause most of our produce/meat comes from the coast.
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Gonna get wild in the interior, I have friends in Nelson who are stocking up, but all the shipping from the ports here in van is boned. Combined with winter hitting here real quick the road work in the snow of December is gonna be a long project I think.
 
14349540:SendyMcSendyface said:
Yeah. Its affecting the interior too, people are cleaning out grocery stores with their panic buying, cause most of our produce/meat comes from the coast.
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14349634:Eightsails said:
Glad you're safe, homie. Apparently the border is open for stranded people without a covid screening but kamloops is pretty far north that would be a heck of a drive.

Gonna get wild in the interior, I have friends in Nelson who are stocking up, but all the shipping from the ports here in van is boned. Combined with winter hitting here real quick the road work in the snow of December is gonna be a long project I think.
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I mean highway 3 re-opened for essential travel today, and i'm pretty sure 99 is going to open up again at some point pretty soon. The coq is a completely different can of worms but it's not like there isn't options.
 
Was watching you tube videos about this and dang, what a mess, worse than the new Orleans flood during Katrina .
 
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