Wednesday, December 01, 2021

More rain is coming to British Columbia

After all these decades, planners are only now realizing that BC is notorious for heavy rain at times.

https://www.burnabynow.com/local-news/check-out-this-documentary-with-footage-from-the-1948-fraser-river-flood-video-4811000

Its not that the Trans-Canada_Highway in SW BC had to be all elevated through the Fraser_Valley_Regional_District. but it should have been on built up land.

 https://www.burnabynow.com/highlights/this-storm-is-not-over-with-more-rain-coming-british-columbians-evacuate-4819416

https://globalnews.ca/news/8417722/abbotsford-bc-flooding-latest-evacuations/

https://www.abbynews.com/news/evacuation-orders-and-alerts-issued-for-properties-on-sumas-mountain-in-abbotsford/

https://www.burnabynow.com/bc-news/new-evacuation-orders-needed-in-abbostford-but-mayor-confident-everything-has-been-done-to-keep-people-safe-4815270

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-floods-abbotsford-got-540-mm-of-rain-in-november-shattering-previous-record-1.5689844

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia_Highway_1#Lower_Mainland_section

"The Interior section of Highway 1 is considered sub-standard when compared to other highways with similar traffic volume in the U.S. or other parts of Canada." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia_Highway_1#Future

However, the inept highway has met the sub-standard requirements of BC for several decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia_Highway_1_between_Hope_and_Yale Just having the paved over equivalent of 2 wagon-roads was challenging enough for BC to attain. 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/post-wildfire-report-warned-trans-canada-highway-at-risk-for-landslide-1.6258963

 Its difficult for BC to achieve a quality similar to that of Alberta, Ontario or Quebec...

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/aerial-look-jackass-mountain-highway-1-closure

The mountains in Switzerland don't prevent good highways from being built.