Flooding, landslides and Washouts in BC

Have the operations of CP service been restricted with all the bad weather in BC?

Almost zero trains on the Revelstoke webcam for the past couple of days. I did see mention that a few trains went as far as Kamloops, the ones I saw go by were apparently coal and fuel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BahXDYWQAKk

fromway wrote: ↑Fri Nov 19, 2021 6:41 pm Have the operations of CP service been restricted with all the bad weather in BC?

CP's line will be closed for about two weeks, a big slip out occurred under the tracks at CP's yard at Boston Bar, BC leaving a gap about 150' wide and about 120' deep. It is going to take a lot of carloads to fill it in. And there are other problems like a bridge abutment over a highway collapsed when a flooded of water completely destroyed the highway underneath. The bridge is still there but nothing will be able to pass over it until the abutment is rebuilt. CN's line across the river has problems but they are smaller and should be cleared sooner

Interesting article on how infrastructure decisions made a hundred years ago in the Fraser Valley may possibly put it into a permanent flood. https://fvcurrent.com/article/sumas-lak ... g-history/ It was advertised by the authors on Twitter as "If you really want to understand all this. Stop scrolling and spend 5-10 minutes reading this feature."

Did they continue pumping water into a river that was in flood stage, causing flood damage, instead of letting it naturally spread which would have caused flood damage in a drained area?

Read the article. It's a drained lake.

But yeah the levee breaking thing during a flood can be very dicey and lead to years of resentment. New Orleans 1927.

BandA wrote: ↑Sat Nov 20, 2021 3:12 pm Did they continue pumping water into a river that was in flood stage, causing flood damage, instead of letting it naturally spread which would have caused flood damage in a drained area?

The flood waters in Abbotsford are not from the main river in the area, they're from the flooding of the Nooksack, which is the next significant drainage to the south and flows into the sea west of Bellingham, WA. When the Nooksack Flooded, this flooded the very low Sumas-Nooksack divide and caused the Sumas, a Fraser tributary to flood. The Sumas flows *past* the drained lake, and was prevented from flooding the lake by the dykes around the lake, but flooded other areas of abbotsford.

The Fraser River, into which Sumas Lake is drained by pump, did not flood, but it did rise to spring-runoff levels, meaning that the whole Abbotsford area including the drained lake could not drain quickly, and the rising waters threatened to take out the pump station, which would have allowed the Fraser River to flood into the lake