I pasted the text below from a curent news story! The picture - of what is normally a 3' wide trickle, now 12' wide torrent - is one I took while we were out riding in it, as Maria and I continue to train for the Test of Metal! After 3 hours we were quite ready to dry out!
March 12, 2007 11:35:00 AM MDT
Water, water everywhere, as Pineapple Express drenches B.C. south coast
VANCOUVER (CP) - Southwestern B.C. is soaked after a huge weekend downpour left roads and fields flooded, and rivers threatening to spill their banks.
The rain let up early Monday but not before the River Forecast Centre issued a flood warning for Greater Vancouver and lower Fraser Valley rivers. The warning was expected to be downgraded as the streams started receding, said Alan Chapman of the River Forecast Centre.
RCMP said several roads were closed because of flooding and swollen roadside ditches, many in the low-lying areas of Surrey's Cloverdale area.
A flood watch was also in effect for Vancouver Island, with many rivers rising through the night Sunday - including the Cowichan, Chemainus and Englishman.
The saturated soil may have triggered a mudslide that closed the Trans-Canada Highway from Rosedale to Hope while falling rock closed the route through the Fraser Canyon to Spences Bridge.
The Trans-Canada was also closed in southeastern B.C. from Revelstoke to the Alberta boundary because of the high avalanche hazard and a mudslide east of Golden.
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