About Next Week



A reprieve. According to the Weather Network 7 day outlook, sodden southern BC will catch a break this week. A day, maybe two of light rain. Nothing that looks particularly worrisome even if the ground is now fully saturated with water from that atmospheric river that just rolled through.

Then I went for the 14 day option beginning on Thursday, November 25. 

Seven days of rain. 40-50 mm, 10-15, 25-30, under 10, 10-15, 25-35 and 35-45 mm. 

The numbers for the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley are roughly the same.

A week for the current floodwaters to recede, for crews to restore some of the infrastructure, perhaps get major highways opened again somehow if that's even possible, before heavy rains return.

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  1. Owen GrayNovember 17, 2021 at 1:09 PM

    What we see here leaves us horrified, Mound.

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    1. The Disaffected LibNovember 17, 2021 at 3:21 PM

      I just finished Andrew Nikiforuk's webinar address at U. Vic. He began his remarks with this quote from Kurt Vonnegut in 2004: "[We] have now all but destroyed this once salubrious planet as a life-support system in fewer than 200 years, mainly by making thermodynamic whoopee with fossil fuels."

      In that same op-ed, Vonnegut added:

      "Fossil fuels, so easily set alight! Yes, and as Bush and Kerry are out campaigning, we are presently touching off nearly the very last whiffs and drops and chunks of them. All lights are about to go out. No more electricity. All forms of transportation are about to stop, and the planet Earth will soon have a crust of skulls and bones and dead machinery.

      "And nobody can do a thing about it. It’s too late in the game. Don’t spoil the party, but here’s the truth: We have squandered our planet’s resources, including air and water, as though there were no tomorrow, so now there isn’t going to be one."

      In the nearly two decades since KV wrote that the evidence suggest he was right.

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