Vibes they are all okay.

[applegrove]

Link to tweet

[MLAA]

1. Fingers crossed that everyone is successfully rescued quickly

[Bev54]

2. Just don't listen to CTV, go for CBC. This is bad but for whatever reason the reporter for CTV

wants to make it worse. He reported that the town of Merritt had only one way out through a winding highway to Kamloops. Firstly it is the Coquihalla Hwy which is a 4 lane, sometimes 6 lane, divided highway and is not winding. Secondly there is another 4 land divided highway to Kelowna they can also take. I do not see the need to make it sound worse than it already is. Obviously he has never driven these highways.

[applegrove]

3. Thanks for clearing it up. It is cbc though.

[Bev54]

5. I was talking about watching this CTV reporter on TV - totally out to lunch.

[applegrove]

6. Okay thanks.

[Fiendish Thingy]

4. Absent from local media reporting here: the impact of climate change on this flood.

We had a couple of extreme heat waves this summer, resulting in nearly 600 deaths in BC. Extreme heat means increased evaporation of lakes and oceans.

That water doesn’t just disappear into outer space, it eventually comes back to earth in the form of rain- in this case, a tremendous amount of rainfall, much of it condensed into just a few days, but October was something like 160% of average rainfall as well.