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Flood waters recede, but another storm is comin

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Flood waters recede, but another storm is coming


Misc CDN | 206765 hits | Nov 17 6:56 pm | Posted by: Hyack
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Flood waters receded Tuesday in Courtenay, B.C., a day after a state of emergency was declared in the island community.

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  1. by Canadian_Mind
    Wed Nov 18, 2009 4:28 am
    If either bridges were washed out, it would have meant the river level was well over the height of the dyke (both bridges are 30 feet above sea level). Several hundred acres of farmland, the native reserve, and several hundred homes and buisnesses would have been flooded.

  2. by avatar Hyack
    Wed Nov 18, 2009 4:37 am
    The worst may be yet to come, they are forecasting more of the same for tomorrow...
    I haven't seen wind and rain like that in the Lower Mainland for years and years.

  3. by Canadian_Mind
    Wed Nov 18, 2009 5:18 am
    "Hyack" said
    The worst may be yet to come, they are forecasting more of the same for tomorrow...
    I haven't seen wind and rain like that in the Lower Mainland for years and years.


    Well they are recalling the evacuation order, so I doubt they expect it to be as bad.

    I suspect the evac order was cast for the folks living down by G.P. Vanier secondary, they right by the river. Every other house by the river is high up on the bluffs, or has storm-surge dykes.

  4. by avatar Hyack
    Wed Nov 18, 2009 5:31 am
    I hope you're right, there isn't a big snowpack to worry about at this time of year, but you never know about the water level rising along with a high tide moving in. You know the only thing predictable about BC's weather is it's unpredictability, especially on the island!

  5. by Canadian_Mind
    Thu Nov 19, 2009 3:14 am
    Yea, Usually the forcast of 4-6 months of straight sunshine in summer, and 6-8 months of clouds, winds, shit-storms and rain in winter is usually accurate for the Comox Valley area. The rest is all random guessing.

  6. by avatar OldChum
    Thu Nov 19, 2009 3:48 am
    Good Luck to you all

  7. by avatar Strutz
    Thu Nov 19, 2009 6:29 am
    "Hyack" said
    The worst may be yet to come, they are forecasting more of the same for tomorrow...
    I haven't seen wind and rain like that in the Lower Mainland for years and years.

    Yeah, Monday night was harsh. There's nothing like some good old horizontal rain to challenge the integrity of the construction of your dwelling. I kinda had a water issue in my home that evening. Sucked big time.

    Tonight the rain and wind are just as bad, if not worse.

    November is always a very stormy month here on the coast but it seems to me these last few years have been really bad for it, this year so far being the worse. The wind gusts tonight are unreal.

  8. by Canadian_Mind
    Thu Nov 19, 2009 6:51 am
    "Strutz" said
    The worst may be yet to come, they are forecasting more of the same for tomorrow...
    I haven't seen wind and rain like that in the Lower Mainland for years and years.

    Yeah, Monday night was harsh. There's nothing like some good old horizontal rain to challenge the integrity of the construction of your dwelling. I kinda had a water issue in my home that evening. Sucked big time.

    Tonight the rain and wind are just as bad, if not worse.

    November is always a very stormy month here on the coast but it seems to me these last few years have been really bad for it, this year so far being the worse. The wind gusts tonight are unreal.

    I remember December 10th to 12th 2006. Sorry, but seeing 200 foot tall, 50 tonne trees being bent over sideways above my house was the worst experience ever.

  9. by avatar Hyack
    Thu Nov 19, 2009 7:35 am
    "Strutz" said

    Tonight the rain and wind are just as bad, if not worse.


    The last 3 nights all seem to be the same, starting at about 9 o'clock the wind just starts to come wailing in from the west, just blowing the living crap outta everything. Good thing they culled out those old cottonwoods a couple years ago!

  10. by avatar Hyack
    Sat Nov 21, 2009 3:56 am
    300 homes evacuated, schools closed after heavy rain, high tide flood Duncan, BC

    DUNCAN, B.C. - Dozens of homes have water "up to the doorknobs" and others are under evacuation alert after heavy rain combined with high tides to flood low-lying parts of Duncan, an hour's drive north of Victoria.

    Water streamed around a network of dikes built since the 1960s, when flatlands in the city and surrounding communities were routinely inundated.

    The municipality of North Cowichan, which includes Duncan and has more than 27,000 residents, declared a local state of emergency after water from the Cowichan and Koksilah rivers and several creeks spilled their banks Friday morning.

    "There's been high tides in the ocean which has not allowed the rainwater to drain away fast enough," public information officer Mark Ruttan said.

    "We've had a couple of schools that have closed for the day and we've had to evacuate people out of their homes. That'll be about 300 homes."

    Ruttan said estimates put the number flooded homes at more than 50 in North Cowichan and more in Duncan itself.

    "There's a number homes that were flooded up to the doorknobs," he said.

    Most of the trouble is in the Somenos Marsh area.

    "It was an area that flooded years ago quite often before they put in these larger dikes," said Ruttan.

    The dikes themselves have not been breached but unfortunately there are gaps, he said.

    "Part of the problem is these dikes don't all connect up so there are areas where the water's been able to get between them," said Ruttan. "It hasn't gone over the dikes; the water's gone around the dikes."

    Some residents put on evacuation notice were already seeing flood waters, such as Blair Ramage.

    "(It's) basically right out my door," said Ramage, who shares a home with his girlfriend just outside the evacuation zone. "I'm in probably two feet of water right now. The street out in front is shut right down."

    Ramage said the pump in his crawl space is under water and useless, and his vehicle is also flooded.

    "I've just got to wait it out," he said.

    Cindy Jones said she could see a lake of flood water across from the travel agency she manages. The nearby elementary and junior high schools are protected by dikes but were closed Friday.

    "The road coming into my office is full of water," she said. "It's bad.

    "I've lived in the (Cowichan) valley all my life and every so many years we get like this. We haven't been this bad for a good couple of years."

    Another longtime resident, retired woodworker Roger Stanyer, said the area's combination of low land, high tides and massive rainfall makes periodic flooding a fact of life.

    "It's certainly higher than normal," he said. "But not as high as it has been in the past, quite a few times."

    A reception centre was opened for evacuees at a local community centre. Manager John Elzinga said about 100 people had registered.

    Water levels started dropping Friday afternoon but Ruttan said the evacuation order would remain in place and crews were sandbagging because more rain is forecast.

    "It's a little dryer now but we're expecting some more rain and probably Sunday we'll dry out a bit," he said. "But the longer-range forecast is for more rain next week."


    Sonuvabitch eh....Heavy rains and a high tide...

  11. by avatar Gunnair  Gold Member
    Sat Nov 21, 2009 4:36 am
    Coming up Haro Strait a week yesterday, I thought I was in the open ocean for the pounding we took.



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