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There is currently no way to drive between Vancouver and the rest of Canada

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Re: There is currently no way to drive between Vancouver and the rest of Canada

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Post by mynameisvlad »

vl wrote: post #210
mynameisvlad wrote: post #117

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Bingo. There is literally one way to get from Vancouver to Whistler: the Sea to Sky/99. And it’s a highway. There are no other links, which is why even when you choose “avoid highways”, you still get put on the 99 between Squamish and Whistler, since that’s literally the only road that connects the two. You get put on some alternative backroads between Squamish and Vancouver, which are horrible to use (it was the onl…

> Bingo. There is literally one way to get from Vancouver to Whistler: the Sea to Sky/99. Figuratively. Technically from Whistler you can go north on 99 and then south on 12 and west on 1 and be back at Vancouver.

I mean, sure, it's over 3 times longer. Even if you were going from Lillooet to Vancouver, no map is going to give you 12->1 as the route, it'll tell you to take 99 down.

Plus, that's basically all highways.

Re: There is currently no way to drive between Vancouver and the rest of Canada

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Post by kazinator »

cf100clunk wrote: post #270
skrebbel wrote: post #105

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I'm surprised there's no shortages yet because trucks can't get to the city. Or does Vancouver import most non-regional goods from the US (and not the rest of Canada) anyway?

The BC Milk Marketing Board has told many of its producers to begin destroying their output until further notice since there is no means of transporting it: https://bcmilk.com/notice-to-producers-flood-conditions-and-... Vancouver's surrounding agricultural areas, lush as they are, will now be almost out of commission for an indefinite length of time.

Dump, dump! Just whatever you don't sell 4 l of organic milk to a local for five bucks; they will get used to it.

Re: There is currently no way to drive between Vancouver and the rest of Canada

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Post by toss1 »

mattmanser wrote: post #80
dleslie wrote: post #20

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Castanet is gloriously imperfect. I hope they never change and never fade away. It's exactly what it looks like: a hodge-podged effort by some local folks with little experience and ability among them, besides an earnest desire to report local news with a local perspective, that has stood the test of time (it launched in 2000!).

So, an outsider's perspective: 1. It loads super quick 2. The list of articles is clear and easy to scan 3. There aren't a shit ton of adverts 4. There are no bloody popups, cookie notices, donate banners, etc. 5. The entire page doesn't load, me start reading then suddenly completely greyed out with an overlay because of badly implemented 4 6. No auto-playing videos that are impossible to find to stop If this is 90s…

Seconded.

Not only that, I didn't even have to touch NoScript - it all apparently loaded perfectly. Wow, it'd be nice if much more of the internet was like this!

Re: There is currently no way to drive between Vancouver and the rest of Canada

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Post by pomian »

lhorie wrote: post #100

For just a bit of context/anecdata, I'm talking to my brother who lives in Vancouver and he wasn't even aware this was a problem. The road closure[0] on hwy 1 near Abbotsford/Chilliwack is a good one hour drive away from Vancouver core[1]. So while it sounds noteworthy for an entire city be technically flooded in, unless you were driving to the boonies, you're probably not actually impacted in any meaningful way. He…

If you live in Vancouver and are staying there it is not an issue. But there is an amazing huge scale issue of access to the interior of British Columbia. 2 out of 3 highways from Alberta are closed. That means you have to drive either an ~ extra 500 miles north, or south, to travel 50-100 miles west or east. There is no way to travel across a whole region of a huge country. Similar to closing all east west highways in southern California, from the Mexico border to lake Tahoe. Sure , you can drive down to Mexico, across to Tijuana, and back up.

Re: There is currently no way to drive between Vancouver and the rest of Canada

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Post by pomian »

boborhythm wrote: post #179

Interestingly, there is a railroad line that goes north from Vancouver, through Whistler and Pemberton, but takes a different route than Highway 99 to get to Lillooet[1]. The highway (aka The Duffey, as it passes Duffey Lake) gains and then loses something like 1000m of elevation, whereas the railroad line is much flatter and travels along Gates Lake, Anderson Lake, and Seton Lake. There are dirt/gravel roads there t…

Some of that was closed due to huge forest fire, which also caused land slides.

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Post by pomian »

tablespoon wrote: post #291

> The only way to drive between the coast and the rest of Canada at this time is through the United States. Doesn't a large fraction of trans-Canada road traffic transit through the US anyway, because it's faster that way?

Haha! That part of the highway is about 2500 miles, to the east.

Re: There is currently no way to drive between Vancouver and the rest of Canada

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Post by int_19h »

kryz wrote: post #288
Dedime wrote: post #7

I surprised you didn't link Kelowna's finest newspaper, Castanet: https://www.castanet.net/news/BC/351544/Mudslides-close-all-... I love them because their reporting is terrible and the site itself is straight out of the 90's. They used to run polls that were easy to manipulate, according to a ex-coworker of mine. It's like watching a train wreck in slow motion. Nonetheless, everybody in Kelowna acts like Castanet is…

Castanet’s true genius is that it was founded by a guy who owned a bunch of radio stations and thus still sells advertising that way. $xxxx/mo for a rotating 250x250 How many people will see it? Mmm about this many hands outstretched as big as a salmon The thing prints money as local businesses funnel all their advertising budgets to it. No expectation of performance, like buying a newspaper ad lol

OTOH they seem to be hosting all their ads directly on their server, so e.g. PiHole doesn't block them.

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Post by waiseristy »

AutumnCurtain wrote: post #232
cronix wrote: post #225

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The whole upper pacific coastline is experiencing it. There is a lot of flooding along the Oregon coast as well with cars/trailers floating away and evacuations. Intense rains for days at a time. I mean we get a lot of rain here, but this has been pretty crazy and constant.

Let's hope it migrates further south and relieves some of the California drought. Any meteorologists have a sense of the weather patterns at play here?

Typically it's snowpack that relieves drought. All torrential rain does is remove topsoil and blow out bridges

Re: There is currently no way to drive between Vancouver and the rest of Canada

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Post by ghaff »

stevenwoo wrote: post #275
javajosh wrote: post #57

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That garmin is a cool toy, but pricey ($400 for the device plus $50/mo for unlimited text service). What does your family member do that they have one? It seems like the kind of thing a park ranger would have, or that someone might rent before going on a long hike in a remote area.

There are several areas within 5-10 miles of Apple's Cupertino HQ that have no cell service - the nearby mountains lead to valleys where I assume it's not economical to install cell towers.

I was in both Napa and Point Reyes a couple weeks back and the AT&T cell reception was pretty hit or miss. Heck, I'm about 45 miles west of Boston and the cell reception at my house is at least variable.
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