The only road from our island to … well to anywhere, really, is now restricted to ‘essential services vehicles’, only … which doesn’t include people who might be trying to get to work/shops/etc except if they’re using public transport … which doesn’t run here on the island. Catch 22 anyone?
Thankfully we, in an abundance of caution, and paying attention to the weather forecasts, did an extra ‘top-up’ run to the shops the day the restriction was announced to start that evening at 8pm.
A teensy-bit more warning would’ve been useful.
The cause is obvious. Of the four main highways out of here, (the Lower Mainland) only one is open for business, intermittently, so ALL the freight that would’ve been transported across a total of ten lanes of various highways, is now rerouted through our town, (one lane of traffic each way) and onto the above-mentioned intermittent lane of highway … which caused a teensy-bit of congestion.
Our ‘top-up’ shop, a trip of half-an-hour, took two hours and two detours.
This video, posted yesterday (24th) gives you an idea of the current state of affairs …
… A lot of the water has receded, but everything, to the right of the highway at the beginning of the video to when the helicopter turns back west, was underwater up until a few days ago.
We’re on our second ‘atmospheric river’, and as I type it’s raining as though someone’s turned a tap on full-bore. Another one is due on Saturday, and a final one (at least for now) is due a few days after that.
Gas (petrol) rationing is still in effect, I don’t see it going away any time soon really.
And finally … cue this YouTube channel with some boots-on-the-ground video of the repairs to one of major washouts on the Coquihalla Highway, one of the afore-mentioned highways that isn’t open for business.
We’re both fine. I have moments when I’m not, but that’s OK, no-one can be fine all the time going through these times, even if she’s not flooded in.
Widdershins Worlds 
Those videos are scary. I sit safely in my Vancouver apartment and no flood here, but the shelves in our local Safeway are … not exactly empty but emptier than usual.
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Glad to hear you’re high-n-dry. 😀 … shortages are starting to be reported elsewhere, not just here in BC, and price hikes are getting concerning too.
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That’s one hell of a lot of rain you’ve had there. DId they umbrellas that I sent work well?
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They’re perfect … turned them upside-down and they’re perfect little boats for pootling along the rivers that used to be roads! 😀
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What a nightmare, Widders. I am pleased you are at least both safe
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Thanks, Derrick. 🙂 … we are, and we’re well stocked on the essentials, tea and, more tea. 😀
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Toilet rolls?
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They seem to still be on the shelves. Perhaps people are using all the rolls they bought in the middle of 2020! 😀
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Yes 🙂
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Reblogged this on OPENED HERE >> https:/BOOKS.ESLARN-NET.DE.
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Thanks for the reblog, Oikos. 😀
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I will keep you both in my thoughts and prayers!
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Thanks, Quaill … how’s the weather over on your side? 🙂
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Cold and overcast. Nothing like you’re dealing with!
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Then I wish you hot water bottles and brollys. 😀
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So sorry to hear that. Reminds me of the year we had 3 hurricanes, and had flooding, and at least a week in total with no power 😞
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The good news is we’ve taken the time to make sure we’re prepared, (as much as is womanly possible) for all sorts of climactic extremes, and with each event we review and update as needed. 🙂
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That’s good
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Stay safe and dry. We are still doing okay in my little city in the center of The Island. May we both continue to dodge these weather bullets.
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So Mote it be! … 🙂 … not the kind of life we expected to be living at our ages, eh? 🙂
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the new norm
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Yep. 😦 … how are you doing over there?
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fine,I’m more a outdoors person,so I bend like the Willow with weather. Often times I’m the only one walking the beach as the weather keeps others in.
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Fingers crossed for the next week or so. Looks like when a weather pattern sets in now, it hangs around for weeks! Last summer–hot and dry. This fall & winter–wet, wet, wet.
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And more rain on the way, 😦
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I know… 😨
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Oh goodness, what a nightmare! Lucky you have supplies- my friend outside Tofino was getting stressed about his food stocks. I can’t believe this is happening- I always think of Canada as such a steady kinda country, no big extremes… 😦
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Not any more. The Extremes (different from The Supremes 😀 ) have gone global.
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Thanks for the videos, Widds. Both were eye-openers. I somehow imagined that an island would be, mostly hilly? Dah. And I thought the water simply covered the bridges, but they’ve been completely washed away. 😦
Somehow you never think this kind of thing will happen to you or people you know. Try and find one happy thing a day, at the least. Thinking of you both. -hugs-
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Hills would be great about now. 😀 Hopefully by Wednesday the worst of it will be over.
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Fingers crossed for a break in the weather. 😦
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Oh, no! That looks awful. *hugs*
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Thanks, Ruth. 🙂
So much rain that it’ll be Wednesday (1st Dec) at the earliest that the floodwaters will finally get a chance to properly recede.
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Wow. What an intense situation. I hope the rain eases soon.
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Not for a few more days. Massive amounts of rain overnight, and another dose forecast for Wednesday. Hopefully that’s the lot.
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Oh gosh. Is your house sandbagged?
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If the water gets this high the entire island will be under water. I doubt very much that’ll, but we’re prepared.
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Maybe it’s time to think about evacuating.
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