posted on Jan, 8 2009 @ 03:12 AM
I'm here in the Fraser Valley about an hour from Vancouver, BC., bordering your state.
This weather is unreal. First we had snow, then freezing temps, arctic outflow winds with windchill down to minus 29, then more snow falls. Now it's
warm, raining heavily, melting the snow and flooding.
Our news says to expect roof collapses, never had that one before. Some buildings have collapsed. There's mudslides, avalanche warnings, flood
watches and warnings, rivers rising, etc.
I can see the Fraser River from my home, it looks high but hasn't topped it's banks. We've been told to clear our own storm drains in our streets
to help out.
We normally don't get much snow around Vancouver, unlike the rest of Canada. It snowed consecutively, never allowing the snow to melt in between.
I've lived in the Prairies one winter, and it snows all the time, but doesn't suddenly warm up and do rapid melts in the middle of winter. Even when
we've had the temps warm up during snowfalls, we get the in between freezing rain, that's also hazardous, but this just turned from fluffy snow to a
torrential downpour.
[edit on 8-1-2009 by violet]