[Scape]

[xerxes]

herbie herbie:

We're hearing all about it on CKNW Open Mouth radio. Trudeau and Horgan should have know before it happened, it's all their fault.

The Fraser River is tidal until Mission (right across river from Abby). Not much of a tsunami to wreak utter havoc all the way up there. And the soil they pump water from - how quick would it liquefy in an earthquake?
Not saying ACK_ACK PANIC NOW!!, just thiking maybe all these proposals shouldn't be totally ignored until it's too late.
- but then again this is LotusLand where it takes 30 years of committee and umpteen billion dollars to build a fucking rest area outhouse

It’s just like everywhere else: we have a good idea what needs to be done it there’s never any political will to do anything until after disaster strikes. Upgrading the pumping station would cost $400m alone apart from shoring up the dykes and canal.

As for the highways, that’s harder to work on. BC’s geography seriously limits where we can build highways especially the ones that can handle heavy truck volume.

[xerxes]

Here's a satellite view of the flooding.


And here's a good video going from Abby to Hope;

[bootlegga]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

raydan raydan:

I always thought that BC was all high-ground, boy am I surprised!

They have a unique geology. It's either low flat valleys, or steep rising rock. And you can't build on steep rock.

You can (some sections of the TCH and Yellowhead are built quite high up), but it costs a fortune and takes a long time to build. As someone who has travelled pretty extensively on both sides of the Rockies, I much prefer the lowland valley drives to the mountain pass drives.

When I was a kid, my Dad had a hilarious beer mug with "Drive Canada's beautiful highways" and an image of a terrified family in a car driving precariously on a narrow goat path of a highway, with the TCH logo underneath it.

[Scape]

That reminds me of stories my step-father told me of the Dempser Highway:

[DrCaleb]

Oh, the Dempster is off the hook! Never drive it without at least 2 spare tires.

[Strutz]

Good Lord... we've been watching the news with a live update/press conference and it's getting worse in so many ways...

They are talking about building a levee now in Abbotsford.

[xerxes]

Yeah. A 2.5km long levee 3m deep. The city going to have to expropriate some homes to make way for the levee. Digging starts tomorrow. And a good sling of rain is expected to fall early next week….

[raydan]

xerxes xerxes:

Yeah. A 2.5km long levee 3m deep. The city going to have to expropriate some homes to make way for the levee. Digging starts tomorrow. And a good sling of rain is expected to fall early next week….

Well you know they only had about 100 years to do something and didn't, so now they have to do something/anything immediately.

[DrCaleb]

raydan raydan:

xerxes xerxes:

Yeah. A 2.5km long levee 3m deep. The city going to have to expropriate some homes to make way for the levee. Digging starts tomorrow. And a good sling of rain is expected to fall early next week….

Well you know they only had about 100 years to do something and didn't, so now they have to do something/anything immediately.

Welcome to Government Emergency Planning.

[bootlegga]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

raydan raydan:

xerxes xerxes:

Yeah. A 2.5km long levee 3m deep. The city going to have to expropriate some homes to make way for the levee. Digging starts tomorrow. And a good sling of rain is expected to fall early next week….

Well you know they only had about 100 years to do something and didn't, so now they have to do something/anything immediately.

Welcome to Government Emergency Planning.

As well evidenced by Alberta's clusterfuck of trying to build a reservoir to prevent another 2013-size flood from happening - we just got the final land from the last NIMBY holdouts a few weeks ago, and construction is planned to start next year, almost a DECADE after the flood happened.

Let's hope it's ready before the next one hits...

[DrCaleb]

But if they want a coal mine. . .

[JaredMilne]

The one thing I take from all this, not just the floods but the fires and pandemics, is how much of the relief efforts have had to come from governments and how much of it they've had to pay for with deficits.

Gee, it's almost as if "tightening the screws" on the federal government to prevent it from being able to spend the necessary sums to deal with crises when they pop up was actually a bad thing, and now it's come back to haunt us!

Not that it's been any better provincially. Just how many jobs did Kenney's corporate tax cut create again?

[bootlegga]

The Fraser Basin Council just released these videos last summer:





BC got an Ace of Spades this fall (watch the first video to understand that reference).

[herbie]

Waiting to hear "why weren't they prepared for that alien invasion from Alpha Centauri? Fucking NDP! Fucking Trudeau!