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Water, Water Everywhere
Record rainfall has rivers cresting.
It’s Election Day in the US, and the story leads papers across the country.
There are early reports of voting machine foul-ups in at least three states. But as Slate’s Jack Shafer points out, the real news won’t pour in until suppertime tonight. So we’ll leave that discussion for later.
For today, the big story in BC is rain. As in, there’s too much of it. Personally, my feet have been wet since Thursday. But with the ‘MSM’ once again ignoring that scoop, we go instead to Chilliwack, the jewel of the Fraser Valley, where floodwaters began to recede early Tuesday morning.
The Chilliwack River was at its highest point in 25 years yesterday, after rains shattered provincial records. About 200 people were ordered evacuated as the river jumped its banks, putting some homes in danger. By Tuesday, the water was slipping back. But Environment Canada forecasts are calling for more rain as the week goes on.
Last summer, a reader funded investigative series in The Tyee exposed the flood danger faced by hundreds of thousands of Lower Mainland residents living behind dikes along the Fraser River.
Without improved flood protection, wrote Chris Wood, 25,000 people
could be forced to flee their homes and infrastructure in the lower
mainland would be devastated.
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Alcibiades
5 years ago
Comments on "Water, Water Everywhere"
The BIG STORY is a 'weather report'!!! About yesterday's weather. Worse than fish wrap.
Sheesh, and I thought this feature was getting better.
Kill it before it does something more ridiculous.
Aurora
5 years ago
Now 300 mm is an awful lot of rain, admittedly, but how come nothing is ever made about the direct cause and effect relationship between logging (excessive, generally) and flooding? The Chilliwack R. has flooded with less rain than that, and it's undeniably attributable to the huge amount of logging that has occurred in that valley. I'm sure flooding conditions will only worsen in future as we continue to be subjected to more and more extreme weather events like the one we experienced this past Sunday through Monday morning. I was surprised to see the final rainfall stats, but not surprised when one considered the intensity of rainfall in the city that night. I have lived in Vancouver for over 20 years now, and can never remember such intense rainfall and for so long as we experienced in that 24-hour period.
Let's hope Rona does more than worry about her hairstyle in Nairobi this week.
G West
5 years ago
Harper has given her a script - she won't deviate from it - stepford wives never do.
Frank
5 years ago
I had to dig a trench around my house to get the water to pass us by.
Frank
5 years ago
And from now on, we refer to Chilliwack as the Big Easy.
pure
5 years ago
Why do some people build homes so close to a river? or build homes that they know will flood someday?
Stump
5 years ago
Another factor overlooked (in addition to logging) is the fact that the more you pave the land surface, the harder it gets for the water to be absorbed and dispersed in the traditional manner.
maestro
5 years ago
G West...master of the one lianer.
Don't forget to mention Ron...yer slippin dude....but then again Rona contains "r-o-n" . Must be the global warming...which ya also forgot to mention.
Stump
5 years ago
You're having another ellipsis fit. And you forgot to include "Leftie" in your text. Yer slippin dude.
maestro
5 years ago
Thanks Stump.
Quality Control IS important.
FYI: Actually " Leftie" is encrypted in the text...but I can sell ya a decoder ring (in US funds).