Wild Winds, Rain, Hail & Snow Batter B.C.
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I was about 10 mins. away from walking the river walk it was so nice out, I would have been caught
way out behind the little airport on the walkway, right at the mouth of the river.
nowhere to hide or get shelter, glad the storm didn't arrive about 30 minutes later.
Worst thing here in the Sunny Okanagan was the wind yesterday. Not bad enough to cause power outages, but sure made the morning walk miserable. Don't miss that sh*t at all that they get 30 times a winter on Vancouver Island, I put up with it for about 45 years. :lol:
Our climate here in courtenay is very moderate, and the closer to the ocean one lives the dryer it is.
by the mountains there is more rain and snow.
the winters in b.c. now are much more moderate than when I was a child. we use to have lots of snow
throughout the winter, now there isn't much at all, maybe every few years we get a couple of weeks with
snow on the ground, but mostly not even that much.
we golf all winter with exception of short spells of freezing weather, which we all whine about.
two years ago we went all thru the winter with very little rain, and it was not a good thing, and I
was glad when we finally got a good amount of rain in the spring.
I love our weather here, never too cold and almost never too hot, I can walk almost all winter with
my gortex jacket, light gloves and be quite comfortable.
We don't get many storms at all in the valley, but my daughter in ucluelet gets lots of them.
the storm that hit the lower mainland and parts of the island two days ago, came
and went, and now we are all back to normal, b.c. has many different climates, the
island has different climates by itself. If I go up the hill west of us a few
miles in the winter it is different than where I live, more rain and snow, higher
elevation and getting closer to the mountains.
I am at sea level not far from the ocean, comox is even closer to the ocean, and
a little dryer than here.
the north end of the island gets lots of rain, and storms, not here.
I've lived in b.c. all of my life, can't tell me about our weather, I know it like the back of my hand.
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That would be about one of the stupidest ideas I've heard this week. Calgary is at 3500' elevation. Cheaper to melt snow in the Rocky Mountains and let gravity carry it down to Calgary than the build and extra 500 miles of pipe and umpteen pumps running 24/7. :lol:
Courtenay did have a few tough winters in the 70s, lots of snow the winter of 71-72 and again in 77-78. During the winter of 70-71 I was working up at Eve River, where we had 5' of snow on the ground which hung around until the middle of May.
I don't want to send our rain water anywhere, why do you think we are so green and luscious, its just
right.
it was far too dry two years ago, as I mentioned, and I had to water my evergreens very early in the
spring, as they were looking sad, with not enough rain to keep them healthy.
get your water somewhere else. we have beautiful lakes on the island, lots of them, and we want to
keep them.
we talked to people from california who were staying here a few years ago, they said we should treasure
our rain and beautiful green land, as they would give anything to have what we have, so I don't ever
take it for granted, I value it.
I don't want to be 'cold', and I'm not cold here, nothing damp here, as soon as it stops raining its
gone, and everything is dry quickly.
if we have a big rain that joins high tides for a few days, and also the river runs high it can cause
some flooding close to the river, but that is a very small part of the winter.
right.
it was far too dry two years ago, as I mentioned, and I had to water my evergreens very early in the
spring, as they were looking sad, with not enough rain to keep them healthy.
get your water somewhere else. we have beautiful lakes on the island, lots of them, and we want to
keep them.
we talked to people from california who were staying here a few years ago, they said we should treasure
our rain and beautiful green land, as they would give anything to have what we have, so I don't ever
take it for granted, I value it.
I don't want to be 'cold', and I'm not cold here, nothing damp here, as soon as it stops raining its
gone, and everything is dry quickly.
if we have a big rain that joins high tides for a few days, and also the river runs high it can cause
some flooding close to the river, but that is a very small part of the winter.
,,,,,,,,,,,,OLAY !!
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Interesting to read about the weather in other parts of the country. Our slice is hot and damp or cold and damp. But, not as cold as it used to be and not as much snow, generally speaking. Jinx will probably boot me now and we'll be up to the pits in it.
Guess it's what one's used to.
I think some of this "it's hotter, wetter, colder, milder" than it used to be is largely in our minds. Children's minds take in the big events and their perception of things is often quite exaggerated. When I was a child one of the high lights was sleigh riding down this "steep long hill" by our house. Years later when I drove it, it was merely a gentle incline. Mind you we haven't seen a winter like 1949-50 since but even that winter was impressive to me as it was my first year in school and I had to walk 11/2 each way.
You're right there. I used to ponder why anyone would live in an area where earthquakes or tornados were a common occurence, where there was a plethora of dangerous, venomous creatures even. Then one day I was on a bus in Ottawa, in January, watching people come on and off, barely recognizable as human beings under the many layers to buffer themselves from a -35 with wind chill kind of day. And I realized they probably would wonder the same damn things about us.
Like salmon!
If all it takes to get rid of the infestation of rich foreign retirees is a little rain then let it come. North Island style where it can rain for a month straight. Bring house prices back down to where they should be and let us get on with earning a living instead of constantly having to deal with some little self interest group that doesn't want any economic activity.
Thank Gawd for BC. Otherwise, the Prairies would get sh1tty weather all year long. BC is a great buffer!