Expect heavy rain and some gusty winds, but nothing like last November, says Environment Canada.
Environment Canada issued a special weather statement Friday morning as an atmospheric river is expected to bring “heavy rainfall and strong winds” to British Columbia’s south coast and Vancouver Island over the weekend.
The Weather Network forecasts heavy rains through Saturday and Sunday could bring up to 140 millimetres of precipitation to Vancouver, Burnaby and the North Shore. In parts of Coquitlam, rainfall totals could reach 200 millimetres over the two days. As of Friday morning, nearly all of the damage was fixed and 99 per cent of customers had their electricity restored.
"Back in 2009, we had believed that climate change would have a quite modest effect on landsliding — maybe an increase landslide frequency of 10 per cent or so," said author Matthias Jakob, a professional geoscientist and UBC adjunct professor, at the time. At the high end, Jakob said the province could see future storms bringing 500 millimetres over 48 hours, more than double the rainfall that paralyzed B.C. in the first extreme rainfall event.
B.C. Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth later confirmed representatives with Environment Canada told him the system would be ready by early January 2022. Despite rising threats due to climate change, most urban British Columbians are “overconfident and underprepared” to cope with a storm’s fallout, according to BC Hydro survey released last year ahead of the November floods.
Reynolds says he documented some people “waking up,” while others created a new baseline for what level of risk they tolerate. In other words, they were more likely to treat a false warning as a let down, shrug it off and say, “Well, it didn’t happen to me.” How should British Columbians prepare for potential flooding? While this weekend’s weather isn’t expected to produce severe flooding, preparing for such extreme events takes time and is best planned well ahead of time, say experts.
That’s just what's been counted. Eyquem says it’s estimated that actual losses are three to four times what's claimed through insurance.
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