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Landslide in BC

Living the dream until these SOBs show up . :eek: 2 months of unusable land .
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Tom O said:
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I am pretty sure that most of that is footage that they had on file, as the water coming past us is MUCH dirtier than that. But as far as a flood goes, maybe to the north of us, but here it wasn't even a high spring runoff level. Some woody debris, and like I said, pretty dirty water, but a far cry from a flood situation. Boaters will likely be crying foul for a while when all the debris hits the ocean, but that's about it.....
 
mmcmdl said:
Living the dream until these SOBs show up . :eek: 2 months of unusable land .
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I know they’re marketed as deer and horse fly deterrents but I’ve been told that the Dragonfly Wingman works for black flies too.

We’re lucky here, the black flies are only bad for a couple of weeks. Mosquitoes on the other hand…….

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Meh. Big nothing-burger here in Lillooet!

The leading edge of the mess that came down the river was not a big deal, it came in the dark, and stayed well below normal season High Water levels.

Currently, not enough wood left on the gravel bars, to show any enthusiasm for going and cutting a little firewood...

@140mower is located maybe 40-60 feet above the high tide line around here. It'd have to be a VERY bad day to reach his area. I am almost 900 feet above as high as the river can get without a mountain collapse (last one was 1200 years ago, more or less!), and even that one did not reach this high up.

River flow here peaked at about where the normal high water will get to, so it was way up, just not up to a point anyone needed to be worried!
 
I'm quite frankly surprised at how fast that slide breached and collapsed. I'm glad it did very little damage.

Wonder what the breach looked like to the hardy entrepreneurs who were panning for gold on the dry river bottom.....
 
Susquatch said:
Another equally important one. "Always sleep on high ground" How many times have I seen newbies pitching a tent on a natural bowl...... Then it rains....... :rolleyes:
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Went "winter" camping back in university, it was a credit course. There were about 20 of us in 3-4 person groups. Headed out on 2 feet of snow in February on cross-country skiis, pulling toboggans w/ most of our gear, the balance in backpacks. 5 day trip planned. Built pole lean-to's, floored them w/ a few inches of conifer boughs for insulation & comfort, draped a sheet 3 mil of plastic for a roof. Stacked logs to reflect heat from the fire towards the front of the lean-to, et voila!

Day one, fine. Warmish, but still sub-zero. Evening of day 2, chinook rolls in, along w/ a warm rain. Morning of day 3, my group awoke to the sound of water running under our sleeping bags. Unknowingly we had set up our lean-to in a creek bed (the snow was pretty much level throughout the site, no real way to tell high spots from low). The boughs had kept us dry, but we had to move everything. Day 4 rolls around, we ended up calling it a trip & slogged it out in the rain & mud, dragging our toboggans through the muck, our cross-country skiis strapped to our backpacks.

I can laugh about it now...
 
JustaDB said:
Went "winter" camping back in university, it was a credit course. There were about 20 of us in 3-4 person groups. Headed out on 2 feet of snow in February on cross-country skiis, pulling toboggans w/ most of our gear, the balance in backpacks. 5 day trip planned. Built pole lean-to's, floored them w/ a few inches of conifer boughs for insulation & comfort, draped a sheet 3 mil of plastic for a roof. Stacked logs to reflect heat from the fire towards the front of the lean-to, et voila!

Day one, fine. Warmish, but still sub-zero. Evening of day 2, chinook rolls in, along w/ a warm rain. Morning of day 3, my group awoke to the sound of water running under our sleeping bags. Unknowingly we had set up our lean-to in a creek bed (the snow was pretty much level throughout the site, no real way to tell high spots from low). The boughs had kept us dry, but we had to move everything. Day 4 rolls around, we ended up calling it a trip & slogged it out in the rain & mud, dragging our toboggans through the muck, our cross-country skiis strapped to our backpacks.

I can laugh about it now...
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That sounds so much like our November camping trips back in Boy Scouts, only without the snow and short periods of dryness.....:rolleyes:
 
My favourite memory was when we were kids Dad was finishing putting the box on top of the Vauxhall Victor and went inside, Mom took the car to the store and proceeded to park in the garage wiping the box off of the car. After he fixed it we went to Elk Falls on Vancouver Island it was p*ssing down with rain, taking my uncles canvas tent he ventured out and when it was time for the center pole it tore right through so there was Dad out in the rain sewing the tent to repair the canvas.
 
Tom O said:
That old saying was lost quite a while ago,
” Always build on the high ground “
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Moving around the Country as I did in the military, you learn a few hard and fast rules in Real Estate.

High Ground and drainage slopes! Pay attention to both.
No river bottoms, or scree flows!
Pertaining above, watch for houses built in gullies, natural, or man made (a street can flood your basement as easily as a natural drainage path!).
Never even CONSIDER a House built on reclaimed Swamp, or that has had a Sewer back-up. Understand that if a sump pump is required, so is electrical power (ie: the stuff that generally up and quits working, during the worst of the gully washer rain storm events...) Gravity ain't quit on anybody yet!
Mountains are nice and all, but parts fall off them pretty much all the time. A little local geologic history knowledge can be a good thing to have.

Not just parts falling off taller land, stuff like the soil types and what they do to the houses. A supervisor I worked for in Cold Lake spent over $100K fighting the heavy clay soil that was around his house, rather than accepting that the house was going to move some throughout the year, and deal with it. It ate almost the entirety of the equity that he built up in that home, when he had to sell it when he was posted out. And the house still floated up and down on the clay soil!
 
40 years ago when I was fit, I camped in Castleguard Meadows in April to do a caving trip. We camped on at least 6 feet of snow, at 8500 ft. Nights were cold- between -40 and -50 C. Days were warm, getting to about -5 to -10.

Everything went very well until the trip home. I rented cross country skis for the trip, and both bales broke. So I post holed back to camp, and one of the guys loaned me his skis, as he was going to helicopter out the following week. His skis de-laminated. So I ended stuffing both sets of skis in my backpack, and post-holed from camp to hwy 93, dragging a duffel bag behind me. It took all day to cover the 17 km, and my feet were badly frostbitten. ( the doctor said it was touch and go if I'd lose my 4 biggest toes). Anyway it was an epic trip, and i recovered the feeling in my feet after a couple of years.

That was the last time I went winter camping, of course.
 
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