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Ferries cancelled due to high winds and damage to Sewell Marina.

https://www.cheknews.ca/high-winds-damaging-nearby-marina-shut-down-horseshoe-bay-bc-ferries-sailings-cancelled-533470/

 

High winds damaging nearby marina shuts down Horseshoe Bay terminal, BC Ferries sailings cancelled

Posted By: Editoron: February 09, 2019In: Breaking News, News
What appears to be barge hitting the docs at the Sewell's Marina (Photo: twitter-becky far @Beccafar) What appears to be barge hitting the dock at the Sewell’s Marina (Photo: twitter-becky far @Beccafar)

High winds that are causing damage at a nearby marina have resulted in the Horseshoe Bay Ferry Terminal closing.

B.C. Ferries say debris from the Sewell’s Marina is making it unsafe for vessels to dock. Both the Queen of Oak Bay and Queen of Cowichan were sent back to Departure Bay where customers can detour to Tsawwassen through Duke Point.

Foot passengers will be shuttled over to the other terminal by taxi.

On social media, the marina appears to be sustaining significant damage from large waves. What may be a barge, along with multiple other boats are hitting into the docks.

 

“Thank you for your patience as we re-jig our schedules…. Of course during adverse weather safety is our top priority. We make these decisions in our best authority,” said B.C. Ferries Spokesperson Astrid Braunschmidt.

Updates from B.C. Ferries can be found on twitter or on their website.

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3 minutes ago, redhdlois said:

I'm in West Van (Dundarave area) and it's calm as anything.......weird.

Forecast for Squamish

Mainly sunny. Wind north 70 km/h gusting to 90. High minus 2. Wind chill minus 21 in the morning and minus 12 in the afternoon. Risk of frostbite. UV index 1 or low.

 

And this is the Marine weather for Howe sound

"Today Tonight and Sunday. Storm warning in effect. Wind northerly outflow 40 to 50 knots diminishing to northerly outflow 30 to 40 this afternoon and to northerly outflow 15 to 25 Sunday morning. Wind increasing to northerly outflow 25 to 35 Sunday afternoon."

 

There is also a freezing Spray warning. Spray from the ocean will hit your ship/ boat and freeze causing an ice build up,  this can capsize your ship if enough freezes to the wrong spots.

"Wind northerly outflow 40 to 50 knots "    a knot equals 1.15 miles per hr.

 

 

 

                                                                                                               

 

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4 minutes ago, gurn said:

Forecast for Squamish

Mainly sunny. Wind north 70 km/h gusting to 90. High minus 2. Wind chill minus 21 in the morning and minus 12 in the afternoon. Risk of frostbite. UV index 1 or low.

 

And this is the Marine weather for Howe sound

"Today Tonight and Sunday. Storm warning in effect. Wind northerly outflow 40 to 50 knots diminishing to northerly outflow 30 to 40 this afternoon and to northerly outflow 15 to 25 Sunday morning. Wind increasing to northerly outflow 25 to 35 Sunday afternoon."

 

There is also a freezing Spray warning. Spray from the ocean will hit your ship/ boat and freeze causing an ice build up,  this can capsize your ship if enough freezes to the wrong spots.

"Wind northerly outflow 40 to 50 knots "    a knot equals 1.15 miles per hr.

 

 

 

                                                                                                               

 

Clearly, I've dodged a bullet where I live.   Was windy here last night but it died down around 2am.

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54 minutes ago, NewbieCanuckFan said:

Somewhere in the province Pat McGeer is stating "should've built that bridge to the island....".:P

That bridge would be shut to traffic with wind speeds that shut down the ferries anyway.

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No doubt the government will use this as another example of "people kind's destructive impact on the environment" to fear monger sensational claims about the dire situation we find ourselves in and how we need to tax people more to reduce impact to the environment.

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23 minutes ago, VanGnome said:

No doubt the government will use this as another example of "people kind's destructive impact on the environment" to fear monger sensational claims about the dire situation we find ourselves in and how we need to tax people more to reduce impact to the environment.

No doubt tin foil hats will find any excuse that humans are not effecting the world's climate.

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25 minutes ago, VanGnome said:

No doubt the government will use this as another example of "people kind's destructive impact on the environment" to fear monger sensational claims about the dire situation we find ourselves in and how we need to tax people more to reduce impact to the environment.

You forgot the part where they continue to give our biggest polluters massive tax breaks "so they don't leave".

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2 minutes ago, luckylager said:

Oh, Derp! Hahaha

 

Holy &^@#, and I'm not even blonde. Lol

 

I usually go through Tswassen, but whatevs

 

 

 

 

Duke Point to Tswassen was available for about my last couple of years living there (IIRC)

But that seemed to add about 30 minutes to our trip to Kelowna

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6 hours ago, Ghostsof1915 said:

No doubt tin foil hats will find any excuse that humans are not effecting the world's climate.

I never said we weren't.


People often erroneously conflate extreme weather and climate change as one in the same when they are very different, especially the politicians the world over that use extreme weather as a means to an end to justify insane taxation around carbon emissions -- and don't even get it right by not putting the burden of the taxation on the worst offenders. If the UN and countries in the EU, Canada, etc were truly concerned with global climate change as they purport to be, the number 1 thing that they could do would be to end or MASSIVELY reduce mass migration from the 3rd world to the 1st. The onus and the focus should be a concerted effort to fix the issues CAUSING the migratory "crisis" in the first place (stopping wars would be a good place to start). When someone from the 3rd world who has little to no carbon footprint, and then migrates to the 1st world their carbon footprint rises exponentially. Now when you look at the current numbers of "migrants" in flux, it is in excess of 250 million, and probably expected to continue to rise; so how do we reconcile that? That clearly flies in the face of those who some would label as "globalists".

I'm not saying we don't need to reduce emissions in order to protect the climate from widespread and irreparable damage; what I am insisting is that "climate change" is one of the most virtue signaled topics not just in Canada, but all over the world, and none are more guilty of that than the UN, and it's the irresponsible nature of people who can't grasp the difference between the two who are in the position of creating policy that are misleading the public, using extreme weather events as weapons in their aim to fear monger around this topic.
 

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Danish statistician Dr. Bjorn Lomborg, the President of the Copenhagen Consensus Center: 'We will spend at least one hundred trillion dollars in order to reduce the temperature by the end of the century by a grand total of three tenths of one degree...the equivalent of postponing warming by less than four years...Again, that is using the UN's own climate prediction model.


http://www.climatedepot.com/2017/01/17/danish-statistician-un-climate-treaty-will-cost-100-trillion-to-postpone-global-warming-by-less-than-four-year-by-2100/

We clearly need to do more, but what I gather is that technologically, as a society we cannot forklift or even slowly transition away from fossil fuels and STILL maintain our current level of power demands as a species, and certainly not within most of our current lifetimes. That's not cause to do nothing, it is cause to continue research and development to work toward that goal and to gain a clearer understanding of the issue at hand, all we have right now is speculation being taken out context and used in an attempt to rectify it but actually achieve nothing, in terms of what our suggested action should be to tackle the situation.

In 80 years from now, we'll probably have a far more astute perspective of the climate system of our world, and may think of other ways to combat the effects, or simply realize that this generation was overly concerned -- we simply don't know we are grasping at straws and in an attempt to do something about it, that action is to tax the world to not stop something that seems unavoidable at this point? Here's the other thing that often gets overlooked, humans are a remarkably resilient species. Time and time again over the course of humanity, we have adapted to our environment and have survived as a result. For the first time in our history we have the means to technologically adapt to our environment instead of depending on biology and extinction level events to ensure enough resources are available to sustain the population.

Now when you look at the Kardashev scale, we aren't even remotely close to even a Type 1 civilization, so if we are not advanced enough technologically to alter or radically change the impact of our existence on the climate, then what the hell is a tax on an already over taxed populace going to do to combat that? All it does is take money from a majority of people already struggling in today's fiscal climate and handing that over to irresponsible mouth breathers to spend however they see fit. In the grand scheme of things, the life of a politician, and of someone in a particular seat of power is insignificant to the types of topics they wax poetic about and virtue signal on to the ends of the earth.

It's difficult to not see the slant that global and national politics seems to be leaning at, and it only truly serves to benefit those who wield it, not those who have to abide by it. That is not tin foil hat conspiracy talk, that is simple and astute observation of what has and continues to happen in the political realm.

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