Another Snow Dump
Wednesday, January 9, 2013 @ 9:05 AM
Measuring tape shows the latest snowfall in the Hart was just shy of 8 inches – photo-250NEWS
Prince George- There was no snow fall warning issued for this region of the province overnight but we did get up to 20 centimetres of snow (Hart) to as little as 8 centimetres at the airport.
Doug Lunquist of Environment Canada says the area that has been hit the hardest has been the Okanagan region which has had three dumps of snow in the past three days resulting in the closing of all of the major highways.
Lundquist says," you could get 5 to 10 centimetres more, especially in the Smithers region before the system moves further east".
A high pressure area is expected to build into this region of the province starting tomorrow. Temperatures are expected to drop to -20 Celsius.
DriveBC says the following sections of highway are closed because of a high avalanche hazard or heavy snowfall warnings:
- Highway 1 four kilometers east of Yale.
- Highway 1 at Jackass Mountain Summit.
- Highway 1 from Hope to Jackass Mountain Summit.
- Highway 1 27 kilometres west of Revelstoke to nine kilometers west of Revelstoke.
- Highway 1 in Glacier National Park.
- Highway 3 from Hope to Allison Pass Summit.
- Highway 3 five kilometres west of Kootenay Pass.
- Highway 5 from Hope to Merritt.
- Highway 5 from Merritt to Logan Lake.
- Highway 5A 20 kilometres north of Princeton.
- Highway 31 12 kilometres north of Trout Lake.
- Highway 97C from Merritt to Pennask Summit.
Avalanche technicians are expected to start an assessment of the danger of slides on the Coquihalla Wednesday morning.
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Just heard something interesting on the news. Turns out the highways department and most of the private highway maintenance get their weather forecast from a private outfit in the states with an office in metro Vancouver. That office is manned by one person. Not saying environment Canada is any better.
11″ at my house at 5:45am (I measured it!) – but I’m a mite further out
yup about 11″ to be swept off of my truck this morning too. Guess what I get to do after work?
Thanks for using the “understandable” scale.
Drive safely all of you on the highways today.
It seems strange that the Hart gets more snow that most other parts of the city and yet it always seems to be the last part of the city to get plowed. I’ve driven residential areas of the “bowl” that don’t get anywhere near the amount of snow as the Hart, yet they have been plowed and the Hart still hasn’t. These areas also don’t have the hilly streets that we have in the Hart. Makes no sense to me!!
Maybe the north side of the river should separate from the rest of the city. We could create our own town and set up our own administration. We would have an excellent tax base with the Husky Refinery and the Pulp Mills as our main corporate tax base. Maybe we would get better service and snow clearing? Hmmm, anyone want to consider being the Hart Mayor??
“We could create our own town”
Big mistake. Go with the Regional District and they will take care of getting the roads plowed.
I think the City does not understand prepraredness. They have not even made in dent in the aftermath of the last two snowfalls. Now this … and a continuattion of it for the next few days … and then all over again after that.
I think by now it should be clear to most people that it is downright dangerous to drive side by side on a four laned street when the lanes have become 8 feet wide, if that, and get suddenly narrower at each access that has been “cleared” across the centre pile of snow that is growing higher and wider by the day.
I don’t think the RD organizes plowing the roads in the outlying areas…that’s a provincial contract.
Definitely agree on the narrow lanes!
ohhh wowwww we’ll be like Van soon, what if the Hart and Haldi Road separates.. kewlllll
Snow clearing by YRB is not always the best in the outlying rural areas, even on school bus routes. During and after significant snowfalls one must have a 4wd vehicle with good ground clearance to have a chance at reaching the highway. It is what it is, we make our choices to live where we want to live.
metalman.
I love living in this part of the North but our snow removal is puzzling! Why the YRB leaves these wind rows on some if the main routes downtown which creates a road hazard. While most of us realize that we have gone from two lanes to 1 1/2 lanes and some drivers still feel there is still room for two lanes and do not yield to other vehicles traveling in the same direction. It is tricky enough driving in the winter, we do not need manmade hazards!
YRB is not responsible for downtown streets. YRB is strictly “so called” highway maintenance — Please
tell me you didn’t think YRB does the downtown.
We are in Pineview….sort of, just off the highway but well before the airport. YRB does a good job keeping the routes clear here. It may take them a day or two to get our road done but thankfully everyone out here pitches in and usually a “quick and dirty” plow of our road gets done right away and no one gets stuck with an unplowed driveway. If you drive from Pineview out in to Blackburn it is very easy to tell when YRB leaves off and the city picks up.
“Why the YRB leaves these wind rows on some if the main routes downtown which creates a road hazard.”
Where is the snow supposed to go? They plow the windrows to open the road and then they snowblow it into trucks to remove it. Leave a bit early and realize there is only two lanes not four…
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