Common sense Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 Power out in some of richmond Any specifics as to which parts? North of granville and east of 3 Rd? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lu0ngo4MVp Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 from what i heard yes but i doubt it maybe a few flakes that wont stay. priceless =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turbanator Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 after getting another 20+ cms today, its starting to snow again here in Port Alberni Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tapeboy Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 anyone have pics from the amount of snow in vancouver? and if its in this thread, what pages?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitronuts Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 Icy roads cause transit problems Monday evening December 29, 2008 10:42 PM METRO VANCOUVER - Icy conditions on Metro Vancouver roads are causing transit problems this evening. Some busses in North Vancouver, the University of B.C. area, New Westminster and Burnaby are being rerouted, TransLink reports. The problems are particularly bad at higher elevations and travellers are warned to expect delays. TransLink says the reroutes as of 10:10 p.m. are as follows: 246 service to stay on Queens omitting the Highland area. 210 service is terminating at Lynn Valley Rd and Mountain Hwy. 230 service is terminating at Lonsdale and 23. 229 service to use Tempe Cres. 27 service to route via 22 Ave/Boundary to Kootenay loop. 17 service to terminate at Blanca Loop. 4 and 84 service to terminate at 4th and Alma. Service in and out of 22 St Stn has been delayed to icy conditions. 99 service terminating at Blanca loop. 16 service to use Granville from Broadway to 63 loop. All C1 and C2 service to stay on Hastings. All S/B 22 service to route via Knight/49 Ave /Fraser/41 Ave/Knight. All 100 service to reroute via 7Ave/20St/Sothridge in both directions. 20 service terminating at 54th Ave. 255 service terminating at Lynn Valley and Mountain Hwy. 239 service to terminate at Phibbs Exchange. 211/212/C15 to route via Mt Seymour Pkwy to Mt Seymour Rd then U turn and return. 8 service to terminate at 49 Ave. For the latest transit conditions, visit: www.translink.bc.ca/Transportation_Services/Cust_Alert © Copyright © The Vancouver Sun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris19 Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 Tough commute home tonight. All roads have black ice .. very slippery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeGillis58 Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 Tough commute home tonight. All roads have black ice .. very slippery. The sidewalks are slippery too. Especially when people don't shovel outside their house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitronuts Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 Vancouver's winter weather nightmare raises questions about Olympic readiness 15 hours ago VANCOUVER, B.C. — Thousands of airline passengers stranded. Roads impassable because of snow. Power failures by the dozen. The last two weeks have been a winter weather nightmare for Vancouver, with huge dumps of snow followed by rain, heavy slush and flooding. All over the city, people are griping about the toll storm after storm has taken on their holiday season. But they're asking another question, too: what if it happens during the 2010 Winter Olympics? Vancouver airport, transit and city officials say they're using the recent storms as a learning opportunity for Games planning. With 400,000 passengers passing through Vancouver in the last week on 5,000 flights, the present volume of traffic at the airport is very close to what it will be during the Games, said Don Ehrenholz, vice-president of operations for Vancouver International Airport. He admitted operations weren't perfect over the last few days, but promised improvement by the time the Games start. "In our planning for 2010 we are planning that there will be a snowstorm of a fairly large magnitude at the worst possible time - either at the very first couple of days or the very last day or two, which is one of the more difficult times for getting people out on time," Ehrenholz said. "We are definitely planning for those circumstances. We have already ordered a couple of extra pieces of snow-clearing equipment for 2010 and we have already been working with the airlines to improve the de-icing process . . . to improve that capacity." The city's transit system will be different in 2010, with more buses and a new subway line that won't be affected by weather because most of it runs underground, said Ken Hardie, a spokesman for TransLink, which handles public transit in B.C.'s Lower Mainland. Car-free lanes on venue routes also means there will be less chance of snow-related traffic congestion. The SkyTrain elevated rail system has been completely shut down in conditions far less severe than those seen in Vancouver over the last week, Hardie said. "I understand that the type of weather that we've had over the past week or so is a one-in-10-year event," he added. "Let's hope we've gotten it out of our system for another 10 years." Events will be divided between the area in and around Vancouver, which is known more for rain than snow, and the ski resort area of Whistler, which usually has plenty of the white stuff each winter. The communities are connected by Highway 99, also known as the Sea-to-Sky highway - a narrow, winding route with plenty of steep hills. Games-time weather likely won't be as severe as what's been seen over the last few weeks, said Al Wallace, regional director of Meteorological Services Canada, which is providing weather services for the 2010 Olympics. However, "we can have heavy rains on the lower reaches of the Sea-to-Sky highway and heavy snows at Whistler," he said. "If you think of (recent weather) and put that into February 2010, that really messes things up in terms of trying to move people and keep things secure." Before the Beijing Summer Olympics earlier this year, Chinese authorities were so afraid of bad weather disrupting the event that they reportedly seeded clouds so there would be no rain during the opening ceremonies. Wallace said that's not on the table for 2010, mostly because it hasn't been proven to actually work. Vancouver's Olympic organizing committee acknowledges that while it has command over virtually every aspect of the Games, the weather is one thing it simply can't control - even if it is one of the most critical elements of putting on a successful winter Olympics. "It could either work with you or really work against you," said Tim Gayda, vice-president of sport for the organizing committee, known as VANOC. "Right from the get-go, we've always planned to deal with the worst." When the Games were awarded to Vancouver in 2003, Environment Canada and Meteorological Services were immediately brought on board by organizers. The agency is spending about $13.4 million on weather services and other environmental initiatives for the Games. Weather stations have been installed at each venue and along the Sea-to-Sky corridor to help monitor everything from wind speed to moisture. Among other things, VANOC and Environment Canada have been putting together "what-if" scenarios where they've taken the weather in past Februarys and used it to determine how the Games would have been affected if they were held on those days. In addition to possible event delays, the committee found that signage and seating at outdoor venues would be severely challenged by the weight of nearly 40 centimetres of snow. Vancouver has had about 88 centimetres of snow this month. Some of the challenges organizers discovered were not anticipated, such as how to keep volunteer morale high when it's cold and wet. They also need plans for mobilizing volunteers in the middle of the night to clear snow from venues. This winter's test events will provide the final dry (or wet) test run for weather modelling. All of the forecasters who will work at the Games will be at the test event venues providing real-time service to judges, coaches and organizers. The events will also give organizers the chance to test transportation and spectator plans. But planning can only take everyone so far, Gayda admitted. While rumours abound of lucky Loonies being built into every sports venue to try to give Canadian athletes an edge, Gayda said his team has its own approach - on top of meticulous planning. "We just pray," he said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuckyHermit Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 Only in Vancouver do we have to worry about getting too much snow for the Winter Olympics... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iheartluongo Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 (edited) It's slippery as hell outside. I just got home and almost died twice today (b/c of the icy roads). I think that's a record. Edited December 30, 2008 by iheartluongo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuckyHermit Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 Stupid forecast... it said a low of 36 F / 2 C, but instead it's 31 F / -1 C... Let's go curling on No. 3 Road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeGillis58 Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 Stupid forecast... it said a low of 36 F / 2 C, but instead it's 31 F / -1 C... Let's go curling on No. 3 Road. And get hit by a 98 B-Line? No thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuckyHermit Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 And get hit by a 98 B-Line? No thanks. Oh please... ...the 98 is so slow that you'll have plenty of time to get out of the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzywuzzy Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 Just came back home. Waited outside for 40 minutes for a 26 bus, even after checking the schedule and going to the bus stop 10 minutes earlier than the scheduled time. The driver then told everyone he's not going to go the full way to Joyce station because it's way too icy. Pretty scary ride, even the bus was slipping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuckyHermit Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 (edited) For anyone who knows, how is Highway 91 right now in terms of black ice and slush and stuff, between Alderbridge Way to the Queensborough area? Edited December 30, 2008 by BuckyHermit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trek Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 For anyone who knows, how is Highway 91 right now in terms of black ice and slush and stuff, between Alderbridge Way to the Queensborough area? The trip out to Wal-Mart can wait Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuckyHermit Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 (edited) The trip out to Wal-Mart can wait LOL, how'd you know? But yeah... we need to pick up a few things from WalMart when we get the chance, and it's not stuff that we can haul onto a SkyTrain or bus... But I don't feel like risking my life on black ice at 100 km/h along the freeway... Edited December 30, 2008 by BuckyHermit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitronuts Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 Supposedly, according to the Weather Network, we're suppose to get: WEDNESDAY: - 5c/3c - 5mm rain - 1 cm snow THURSDAY: - 3c/1c - 5mm of rain - 5 cm snow FRIDAY: - 4c/-2c - 1 to 3 cm snow SATURDAY: - 4c/-2c - 5 to 10mm rain - 1-3 cm snow SUNDAY - 2c/-2c - 20 to 30mm rain - 5 to 10 cm snow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuckyHermit Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 My brother asked me this morning, via MSN from Beijing: "what the hell is going in van this winter?" I'm at a loss to answer that. The weather has been downright disgusting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NHL'er Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 My brother asked me this morning, via MSN from Beijing: "what the hell is going in van this winter?" I'm at a loss to answer that. The weather has been downright disgusting. Global Warming I tell ya. Global Warming. We'll all be dead in 50 million years! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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