Nov 4th storm in BC

[Cunuckgaucho]

This link has pictures from Highways Ministry.  https://www.flickr.com/photos/tranbc/albums/72157720143417483

 

 

 

Friend's range is about 1hr drive from my place, now it's almost 3hrs but underwater. It's the green roofs by the tree line

 

[DNP]

Serious carnage. I hope they pass a trillion dollar infrastructure bill to help repair all of that!

[unforgiven]

You can never underestimate the power of water wow

[DNP]

Mother Nature can be a ruthless c*nt when she wants to be. That’s why I don’t worry about climate change. She’ll let us know when she’s done with our shenanigans. 

[Rsquared]

9 hours ago, unforgiven said:

You can never underestimate the power of water wow

No $hit brother. I've seen water pressure push block walls over by a course or two inside a closed room when a pipe let go. Found one with the steel door swinging, barely, by it's closer arm, in the 5 foot high gusher that was rushing out of the doorway.

This was a 12" main coming into a 400,000 square foot office building in downtown DC. The flange by the incoming meter connection let go, and filled up a 8'x10' room damn near instantly. The pressure built (quickly) until it pushed the block wall over by about 10 inches, and then blew the steel door off of it's hinges. It flooded the lower two levels of the garage of the building.

Funny part of the story? The guy in charge of the garage had called me, and said that there was a "little" leak on the upper level.

  LITTLE?

FUK ME!

[sketch]

Water is a home wrecker. Hope he gets some insurance help. The most I deal with is neglected/hidden problems and insurance says act of God sorry. 

[Cunuckgaucho]

Pretty much every major highway passing through the province is affected. Travel on some routes now restricted to certain traffic. Gas is rationed and limited to 30L(7.9 US gallons ) per gas station visit till 1 Dec.

Sadly a lot of the flat areas are valley bottoms and farmland. Lots of dairy, poultry and eggs in the area shown in the picture.

[unforgiven]

Our hearts go out to all those people very 😢  what a mess.

[sagebrush]

big mess