I guess November was unwilling to go unnoticed, so right at the end of the month British Columbia became the target for memory of the month. Especially Vancouver. Vancouver was pummeled just over a week ago with rain storms which effectively wreacked havoc on the water systems and also added the pain of power outages and wrecked property. So, for a week the soggy, drenched Vancouver and coast was placed in a boil water advisory and the shelves where bottled water once sat now lay bare. However, November wasn't happy with this...nope, the punch needed to be harder, so lets drop the temperature and slap some snow down on the poor coast.
Now I have heard a lot of people say that people in Vancouver don't know how to cope with the snow, they become idiots and drive like grannies...I think this is being fairly harsh on a population that rarely has to experience freezing temperatures and frequent snow falls. The city doesn't budget for snow clearance, the drivers aren't thinking winter tires or safety measures that we in the north take for granted. Add on to the fact that the coast has already had a miserable week of water issues, now it's cold, no power, no safe water and compounded by a homeless population that has no resource.
So 90, 0000 people with no power beginning Monday, and now 14, 000 in Victoria and no power and another storm coming.
I don't have much of a point other than let's go easy on Vancouver and the coast, they are getting their teeth kicked in right now.
2 comments:
Yep, they're getting pummelled for sure. When I lived there, we'd usually get one major dump of snow every year or two and it pretty much became standard policy for me to just not go to work when it snowed. Not because I wasn't capable of driving in the snow or that people drove like grannies, but because there were way too many idiots who decided that because they had an SUV or a 4WD that they could continue to drive down a congested highway at 130 km/hr with no regard to the shift in road conditions. It was just too dangerous to make it worth my while to go in when I knew that the snow would be gone in a day or two.
What I find interesting about the sudden "kick in the teeth weather" in Van right now, is how it should be exposing the level of poverty in the city, yet, the news focusses on the problems of home owners and their issues with water and electricity. Yet, there are how many homeless people? or people who are living in suites that should be condemned or can't afford to even pay for electricity? I feel for those people in Vancouver...they have nowhere to turn to and really little attention is focussed on them during times of crisis...ie New Orleans!
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