Kicked in the Nooksack again!

[Rusty Canuckleford]

Shit’s flooded in the Lower Mainland, once again.

LIVE UPDATES: B.C. flood reaches Highway 1 as schools close, evacuations expand in Abbotsford

Flooding continues to affect parts of Abbotsford, B.C., on Friday, prompting expanded evacuation orders, school closures, the closure of a key stretch of Highway 1, and growing concern for farmers in the Sumas Prairie.

www.ctvnews.ca

Abbotsford mayor rebukes Ottawa and B.C. over flood response

Both governments have failed to heed lessons of catastrophic 2021 flood, Siemens says

www.theglobeandmail.com

This time, it was primarily caused by flooding from the Nooksack river in Washington state. But the government has done fuck all to help with funding flood mitigation.

$1.7 billion flood projects still stalled in Abbotsford, Princeton and Merritt without funding

One-point-seven billion dollars in major flood project work still stalled in three B.C. communities without funding.

vancouversun.com

No Flood Mitigation Funding for Abbotsford, Merritt and Princeton | City of Abbotsford

Three BC municipalities devastated by flooding in 2021, along with industry and business leaders are calling on the federal government to change the way it funds climate change disaster prevention after all being turned down for critical flood infrastructure funding through the Disaster...

www.abbotsford.ca

Could that have something to do with this proposal by UBC and the Sumas tribe? Idk, but does Richmond belong to the indians yet?

UBC study calls for restoring Sumas Lake after devastating 2021 floods

Researchers say managed retreat is more cost effective and safer than rebuilding dikes and pump stations to prevent floods. Find out more.

vancouversun.com

A century of silence: Sumas First Nation and UBC researchers propose return of Sumas Lake after 100 years

Once a vast expanse of water teeming with life, all that exists today of Semá:th Xo:tsa are hazy black and white photos of a lake no more. But that may change soon.

ubyssey.ca

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to play a round of underwater mini golf.

 

[Jack Layton]

Heat wave is over?

 

[d01tg0d0wn]

Jist when u think you can at least breath before the next fooked up thing happens you realize you cant.

I hope everyone is ok and no one died.

What a miserable thing to occur before Christmas

 

[Beers2Freedom]

On a typical day, 80,000 vehicles drive along the Fraser Valley stretch of Highway 1 between the Whatcom Road interchange in Abbotsford and the Yale Road interchange in Chilliwack.
But almost a century ago, this 10 km highway segment, roughly following the southeastern perimeter of the base of Sumas Mountain, was the shoreline of the vast Sumas Lake. The agricultural and livestock areas that stretch from Sumas Mountain in the northwest to Vedder Mountain in the southeast are on a low-lying area that was previously the bottom of a lake.

The dam system needs to be maintained or it will become a lake once more.

Most people don't know it was a lake, so the Government can claim Climate Change is to blame instead of poor management/lack of maintenance.

Maybe, don't buy land in a lake bed or low lying area. That's asking too much though. Can't expect people to use their brains.

 

[Rusty Canuckleford]

Maybe, don't buy land in a lake bed or low lying area. That's asking too much though. Can't expect people to use their brains.

Sure, call the farmers dumb for living there, it’s not like farmland is important or anything.

 

[Beers2Freedom]

Well it is dumb. They settled on a lake bed. It's always going to flood. It's inevitable. You never build on low lying areas for a reason. Or at least be smart about it and prop your buildings up like they do in Hawaii. Basically the first floor is stone stilts to accommodate high water.

Water always finds the path of least resistance, rerouting and damming it will only last so long. Expecting the government to maintain the waterways for 100+ years is unrealistic.

This is just typical interventionism failing. The massive floods in 2021 were a sign to fix the problem or move on. They didn't address the problem, expected the government to do it, now they are swimming in it again. You can't have sympathy for stupidity. It's going to keep happening.

 

[Hirudinea]

@Beers2Freedom

Lake beds can be pretty fertile farmland, but you have to keep the flood control up. Look at the Netherlands, if they had the same attitude to flood control that B.C. seems to have they wouldn't exist anymore.

 

[Beers2Freedom]

@Hirudinea

Lakes are also a major source of water for the entire area and are important to the local ecosystem.

Intentionally drying up a major water source out of nothing more than greed is ridiculous. Canada has a surplus of land, they were just too damn lazy to develope the surrounding land. No need to clear trees if a lake was there.

The Okanagan lake is absolutely massive. Why not drain it and settle on the lake bed? Because it's a valley and an arid environment. You'd destroy the local ecosystem. Not to mention that it's incredibly deep.

Draining the Sumas lake was a mistake, one that might eventually right itself. Just because it was done 100+ years ago doesn't mean it was the right thing to do.

 

[Hirudinea]

@Beers2Freedom

We have lots of land, not that much farmland.

 

[Beers2Freedom]

@Hirudinea

Clearly you haven't traveled Canada. Neither has the nerd who can't reply in his own thread without "tarded" reactions.

Most of Canada is flat as hell and there is tons of farmland. Also tons of undeveloped land. Draining a lake should never be an option. Especially considering fresh water will be the commodity of the near future.

Clearly you guys don't give a fuck about the destruction of natural habitat.

 

[Hirudinea]

Hey if you want to live under water then build dykes, maybe hire some Dutchmen.