Enough Already!

Friday, November 24, 2006 04:01 AM

Highway 16 West at Vance Road last night shows the road conditions that contributed to a number of accidents in the region. Photo courtesy www.drivebc.ca

More snow was the order of the day Thursday as the City and Region received a further dump of the white stuff in what has been described as the fastest major start to winter in many years.

Last night Peden Hill was yet the scene of another accident when a tractor trailer clipped the side of a snow plow taking the plow wing nearly off.

A multi vehicle accident at the intersection of Highway 16 and Gauthier Rd. Thursday night resulted in three people being sent to hospital with minor injuries, and the highway being closed for a time. It was re-opened to traffic around 9:30 last night. In that accident, a chipper truck and three vehicles collided, road conditions played a factor.

Traffic at the intersection of 5th and the by- pass was reminiscent of the big cities shortly after 5p.m. as people tried to move out of the down town core.

The temperature is expected to drop to -30 by Monday but no new snow is forecast until that time.

Loggers working in the bush say that the snow came so quickly this year that most parts of the interior still do not have frost in the ground , although the -30 temperatures predicted for this weekend should help.

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Posted on Friday, November 24, 2006 04:01 AM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: acrider54 on November 24 2006 6:12 AM

Ahhh winter as it used to be years ago.

Posted by: YamaDooPolCat on November 24 2006 7:24 AM

Obviously the earth is entering a new ice age and we need to have a world wide plan to reduce ice age gases. There is no need to panic and we need calm reasonable people to make it happen.

I nominate Heddy Fry because she has this idea about burning crosses in PG, and that would help.

Posted by: Palopu on November 24 2006 8:51 AM

Heddy Fry now has a feeling in her stomach that tells her that maybe calling Quebec a Nation within Canada is not a good thing. She is going to go home and think about it for a while.

-30 in November. Wonder if we will get -40 -45 in January, February, it would be like the good old days. Might set back Global Warming by a few years.

Teresan Gas has a big smile on their face.

Posted by: bohemian on November 24 2006 9:04 AM

"Climatologists are pessimistic that political leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climatic change, or even to allay its effects."

Newsweek, April 28, 1975 on a story about GLOBAL COOLING!

http://denisdutton.com/cooling_world.htm

Posted by: diplomat on November 24 2006 12:36 PM

Total amount of carbon based greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere of the Earth by mankind's burning of fossil fuels:

7.9 Billion (not million!) tonnes during 2005.

The carbon monoxide concentration in the atmosphere has increased by 25% over the last century.

Perhaps, (just guessing) not a trivial matter but one that may just have long term consequences.

Quoting George W. Bush:" It isn't pollution that is harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."

He is the leader of the free world and must be very smart and educated to come to such a conclusion - so perhaps...

:)-