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I live in Vancouver and had no idea until a friend in another country saw the news and asked me about it. Not to say people elsewhere in BC weren’t impacted (on

I live in Vancouver and had no idea until a friend in another country saw the news and asked me about it. Not to say people elsewhere in BC weren’t impacted (one town had to evacuate) but the media is not painting an accurate picture.

lhorie 5y ago
Yeah, the evacuation order in Abbotsford[0] seems like the real news to me. [0] https://www.abbotsford.ca/alerts/evacuation-order-and-alerts-issued-localized-areas https://www.abbotsford.ca/alerts/evacuation-order-and-alerts...
- soperj 5y ago
  Merritt seemed big as well.
cf100clunk 5y ago
Perhaps the picture being painted by the media is not being accurately assimilated by you? This is real, and magnitude of the circumstances is dire.
- arcticbull 5y ago
  Dire in what way? Vancouver still has the YVR airport, a seaport, ferries, a downtown float plane airport and both road and rail access to the US. There will be some impact to prices, I imagine, while the road and rail links to the rest of Canada are rebuilt.
  - nitrogen 5y ago
    I'm totally unfamiliar with the geography there; are peripheral cities and towns around Vancouver as unaffected as Vancouver itself? I can imagine it happening in some places I've lived, where the central city is humming along just fine and everyone inside the city is blind to the 50% of the population around the city that just got stranded and cut off from supplies.
    - mmartinson 5y ago
      More or less. Greater Vancouver suburbs largely unaffected. Farther out peripherals (Abbotsford, Hope) badly flooded. All regional towns and cities beyond those cut off.
    - singingboyo 5y ago
      Depends what you consider peripheral. The places within a couple hours big enough to notice as you drive through are basically Lions Bay/Squamish going north, Maple Ridge/Mission on the 7, and Abbotsford/Chillwack/Hope on highway 1 out the Valley. Chilliwack and Hope might be cut off, though I think it's possible to get there via minor roads/unusual routes. Abbotsford is partly flooded, but areas that aren't should be accessible. Lions Bay/Squamish and Maple Ridge/Mission are fine, as far as I know. So if a 1-2 hour drive is the limit, then parts of Abbotsford/Chilliwack/Hope are pretty miserable right now, but it should be fairly localised. On the other hand, you can argue that most of Southern BC is "peripheral" to Vancouver, despite parts being 4-5 or more hours away. Those parts will have more issues, since you start getting into places where the only connections are (were) the highways that flooded and washed out.
  - cf100clunk 5y ago
    Dire for Merritt (evacuated), Princeton (under water), Hope (all highways closed or curtailed), Abbotsford (under water), Chilliwack (under water), Fernie (no highway access) and a host of other places on the mainland and on the Island that are vital transport, agricultural, forestry, tourism, and mining centres. You mentioned prices, so scale it up to international economics level.
    - Dylan16807 5y ago
      zaptheimpaler specifically said they were talking about the reporting on Vancouver, not elsewhere.
    - klyrs 5y ago
      If I had a nickel for every time folks have suggested moving out to the country as a solution to the housing crisis...
      - cf100clunk 5y ago
        He he, and if I had 4 million nickels I might be able to afford a small home in Metro Vancouver. [EDIT] see reply - should say 40 million but what the heck, I ruined the joke.
        ant6n 5y ago
        You _might_ be able to afford a small home for 200K?? I thought Vancouver was much more expensive than that. Or do you mean only the down payment.
      - arcticbull 5y ago
        Did someone suggest that?
        klyrs 5y ago
        It comes up pretty frequently, in topics about remote work, housing crisis, homelessness, minimum wages, etc.
  - cf100clunk 5y ago
    "In the wake of the extreme weather events that continue to devastate First Nations across BC, the First Nations Leadership Council (FNLC) calls on the Provincial government to declare an indefinite State of Emergency in BC, effective immediately." https://www.bcafn.ca/news/fnlc-calls-state-emergency-due-unprecedented-climate-weather-events-bc https://www.bcafn.ca/news/fnlc-calls-state-emergency-due-unp...
- suetoniusp 5y ago
  Perhaps the picture being painted by the media is not an accurate representation of reality. Get a grip man
  - cf100clunk 5y ago
    The parent comment to mine specifically mentioned media coverage. So, bearing in mind that there are states of emergency declared throughout the Province Of British Columbia as a direct consequence of this atmospheric event, there is plenty of objective primary source material available to anyone from those authorities should a person decline to believe media reportage.
  - vkou 5y ago
    The picture painted by the media is a pretty accurate representation of reality. This recent spat of weather has been pretty horrifying for a lot of people in the valley. Mudslides, power outages, flooding. My parents have been dealing with it for the past few days in their homestead out by Chilliwack, and it's not been great. I understand that someone WFH in their swanky Kits apartments isn't particularly impacted by any of this, but there does exist a BC outside of Vancouver.
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lhorie 5y ago

Yeah, the evacuation order in Abbotsford[0] seems like the real news to me. [0] https://www.abbotsford.ca/alerts/evacuation-order-and-alerts-issued-localized-areas https://www.abbotsford.ca/alerts/evacuation-order-and-alerts...

soperj 5y ago
Merritt seemed big as well.

cf100clunk 5y ago

Perhaps the picture being painted by the media is not being accurately assimilated by you? This is real, and magnitude of the circumstances is dire.

arcticbull 5y ago
Dire in what way? Vancouver still has the YVR airport, a seaport, ferries, a downtown float plane airport and both road and rail access to the US. There will be some impact to prices, I imagine, while the road and rail links to the rest of Canada are rebuilt.
- nitrogen 5y ago
  I'm totally unfamiliar with the geography there; are peripheral cities and towns around Vancouver as unaffected as Vancouver itself? I can imagine it happening in some places I've lived, where the central city is humming along just fine and everyone inside the city is blind to the 50% of the population around the city that just got stranded and cut off from supplies.
  - mmartinson 5y ago
    More or less. Greater Vancouver suburbs largely unaffected. Farther out peripherals (Abbotsford, Hope) badly flooded. All regional towns and cities beyond those cut off.
  - singingboyo 5y ago
    Depends what you consider peripheral. The places within a couple hours big enough to notice as you drive through are basically Lions Bay/Squamish going north, Maple Ridge/Mission on the 7, and Abbotsford/Chillwack/Hope on highway 1 out the Valley. Chilliwack and Hope might be cut off, though I think it's possible to get there via minor roads/unusual routes. Abbotsford is partly flooded, but areas that aren't should be accessible. Lions Bay/Squamish and Maple Ridge/Mission are fine, as far as I know. So if a 1-2 hour drive is the limit, then parts of Abbotsford/Chilliwack/Hope are pretty miserable right now, but it should be fairly localised. On the other hand, you can argue that most of Southern BC is "peripheral" to Vancouver, despite parts being 4-5 or more hours away. Those parts will have more issues, since you start getting into places where the only connections are (were) the highways that flooded and washed out.
- cf100clunk 5y ago
  Dire for Merritt (evacuated), Princeton (under water), Hope (all highways closed or curtailed), Abbotsford (under water), Chilliwack (under water), Fernie (no highway access) and a host of other places on the mainland and on the Island that are vital transport, agricultural, forestry, tourism, and mining centres. You mentioned prices, so scale it up to international economics level.
  - Dylan16807 5y ago
    zaptheimpaler specifically said they were talking about the reporting on Vancouver, not elsewhere.
  - klyrs 5y ago
    If I had a nickel for every time folks have suggested moving out to the country as a solution to the housing crisis...
    - cf100clunk 5y ago
      He he, and if I had 4 million nickels I might be able to afford a small home in Metro Vancouver. [EDIT] see reply - should say 40 million but what the heck, I ruined the joke.
      - ant6n 5y ago
        You _might_ be able to afford a small home for 200K?? I thought Vancouver was much more expensive than that. Or do you mean only the down payment.
    - arcticbull 5y ago
      Did someone suggest that?
      - klyrs 5y ago
        It comes up pretty frequently, in topics about remote work, housing crisis, homelessness, minimum wages, etc.
- cf100clunk 5y ago
  "In the wake of the extreme weather events that continue to devastate First Nations across BC, the First Nations Leadership Council (FNLC) calls on the Provincial government to declare an indefinite State of Emergency in BC, effective immediately." https://www.bcafn.ca/news/fnlc-calls-state-emergency-due-unprecedented-climate-weather-events-bc https://www.bcafn.ca/news/fnlc-calls-state-emergency-due-unp...
suetoniusp 5y ago
Perhaps the picture being painted by the media is not an accurate representation of reality. Get a grip man
- cf100clunk 5y ago
  The parent comment to mine specifically mentioned media coverage. So, bearing in mind that there are states of emergency declared throughout the Province Of British Columbia as a direct consequence of this atmospheric event, there is plenty of objective primary source material available to anyone from those authorities should a person decline to believe media reportage.
- vkou 5y ago
  The picture painted by the media is a pretty accurate representation of reality. This recent spat of weather has been pretty horrifying for a lot of people in the valley. Mudslides, power outages, flooding. My parents have been dealing with it for the past few days in their homestead out by Chilliwack, and it's not been great. I understand that someone WFH in their swanky Kits apartments isn't particularly impacted by any of this, but there does exist a BC outside of Vancouver.
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