You know we live about 35 miles south of Vancouver, BC. My alarm is set to CBC 1. When it woke me on Thursday morning, I heard about the two slides trapping hundreds of people.
As I mentioned in the MMP, getting home to Birch Bay looks questionable. I think I see an alternate route on a Google map, so my fingers are crossed. (All of the usual alternate routes are closed, though it looks like one now has a single lane open.)
I wonder if you could go Vancouver - Nanaimo via ferry, drive up Vancouver Island, then Port Hardy - Prince Rupert via ferry…
I’m pretty sure that leaky condos are an eternal problem in Vancouver.
Yes, but currently only 2 trips/week, Wednesday and Saturday.
If you want to spend a couple of hundred dollars on covid tests, and can get the results fast enough, sure.
In normal times, there is the option of crossing the border, but it’s still comparatively difficult.
That said, Vancouver itself isn’t that bad. Lots of localized flooding and pooling water, but most areas came through pretty well. My neighbourhood looks pretty normal today, and my commutes to work yesterday & today (across a pretty wide swatch of metro Vancouver) were fine.
Photo of badly flooded Abbotsford, BC (ha, ford, you could say that again):
We were talking about driving from Edmonton to Vancouver for a vacation next week, but instead decided to fly to Toronto for a week. Glad we didn’t make any Vancouver plans.
Rail (CN and CP) and pipeline (Enbridge (gas) and TransMountain (oil)) links to Vancouver now shut off.
One dead in the mudslides; searchers still looking for missing persons.
Maybe this should go into GQ, but…
Where do I find the total rainfall from the recent storm (say, Thursday/Friday through Monday)?
There is a new BC ferry service, direct from Kamloops to Vancouver…
For what area? It really varied by location, even several km apart.
Whatcom County, Blaine, WA, Birch Bay, WA, Bellingham, WA…
Is there a site to look it up?
You can try the NWS. Their site is a bit tricky to move around, so I usually Google the type of search I want to do (say, rainfall by county and state) and then I can find what I want after some poking about.
Wow.
How many feet (or centimeters) above flood stage is that river, anyway?!?
Here’s the Environment Canada (the Canadian analog to the U.S. National Weather Service) site for Vancouver, and its day-by-day weather for the month to date.
It shows 19.9mm of rain for this past Saturday, 52.5mm for Sunday, and 47.8mm for Monday, for a three-day total of 120.2 mm (or 4.7 inches).
Thanks. I was thinking we got about 5 inches (127 mm) here in Birch Bay.
For U.S. locations, the National Weather Service’s weather.gov site lets you look up any location for its weather, though the “3-day history”, which includes rainfall, is only for bigger locations.
Here’s Bellingham’s 3-day history page; it shows about 4.5" from the storm there.
https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/getobext.php?wfo=sew&sid=KBLI&num=72&raw=0
Here’s the page that the NWS site serves up when I put in “Birch Bay WA” – it shows Ferndale:
https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=48.9333&lon=-122.7263
Looking at the “precipitation since midnight” column on the three-day history page, it looks like 4.04 inches on Sunday, and 2.61 inches on Monday.
Here’s a link to an article in the National Post with a photo gallery:
6 ⅔ inches. That’s more.