Flooding in the Pacific Northwest

helicopterjim said:
I believe that it was between 200 and 250 mm for a few different places in the vicinity. That was over about 30 hours. The main problem was the river in USA breaching its banks and flowing into the same area. Add the two together and you can understand how they got to be completely fucked.

Then there was this guy ....... don't know the story but it doesn't get to much closer to being "destination fucked" for this SUV and trailer.

Jim

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Hope, BC got 300mm of rain in 2 days.
 
You cannot eat it, you cannot build a shelter from it, you still go to the toilet the same amount, why would you suddenly need mountains of the stuff. It's beyond stupid.
 
I got an email from Wolfgang that said he was dry and safe, but that there was such a disruption of the transport network that he was unable to ship any parts for a few weeks, or at least until the current backlog was worked down.
 
I have a feeling my calendars will sit in Vancouver for quite a while before they start moving towards me again.

More rain forecast for the affected areas but at least the military has decided that maybe they can help. They used to have a military base for the Engineer unit that could do bridging and all kinds of useful things and it was right beside the worst of the flooding but in their infinite wisdom the powers that be decided 20 years ago to move them to a base about a thousand miles inland. Now they are trying to figure out how to get back to the coast because all the roads are/were cut and probably around the time everything gets fixed they will roar into town and be ready to save the day.

Jim
 
We shouldn't blaspheme the figure of the lady so much - we're not all slim either, and that's why some have to retrofit expensive carbon parts on the bike so that the total weight of their bike fits again.

In spring we will find out, that nasty so-called "shrink moths" got hold of our leather suit in winter and therefore it has become one size or more smaller. :mad:

Thomas aus LAU who has already experienced it himself.
 
my son, his spouse, and my 5 year old grandaughter moved to Victoria on Vancouver Island a couple of months ago, and live vey close to Chris Beauchemin. Talking to them yesterday they were happy they drive a full electric plug in hybrid SUV and thus not having to deal with gasoline rationing. Electirc power is still on at least. Big supply chain disruption on top of CoVid supply chain disruption, grocery store shelves stripped bare.

in the interior of BC, Jim posted some photos of Sumas Prairie now underwater. That used to be a failry large lake until drained in the 1920's, guess it is a lake again...... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumas_Lake

for the extent of the destruction relatively few deaths thankfully, but will take years to rebuild roads which are already in very difficult terrain.

Paul LeClair
 
We had a couple of good bike roads wash out recently, and yes it did take 6 months to build up that steep ground. When half a mountainside slips away I don't know how they do fix that sometimes.
 
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