BC road closures.........wow

[ferniesnow]

I counted 17 closures this morning from the Island to the BC/AB border and south of Kamloops. These range from avalanche control, avalanche debris clean-up, accidents, freezing rain on the Coq, and closure due to avalanche possibility.

 

[BILTIT]

17 .....

 

[adamg]

It's a good reminder that the nice things we have, like highways that allow us to move around the country, will very quickly disappear if we as a society lose our productivity.

 

[tejay]

We had 30 cm of snow overnight

 

[Flapjack]

I'm sure I've had 2' this past week near Creston

 

[freeflorider]

Road close? As a kid I never remembered it snowing …right. To many safety issues and lack of competent people to remove and maintain.

 

[tejay]

You don’t make money wearing out plow blades and having extra equipment on the road.

 

[RXN]

Drove into Kamloops from Edmonton yesterday. That was a long drive. 60km/hr between Valemount and Blue River. Couldn't pass. Couldn't see enough to.
Stopped in Blue for bathroom breaks. Lucked out highway was empty in front and behind us. Until just past Vavenby.
Caught up the slow convoy again. 60km/hr into Clearwater.

It sucked.

 

[Flapjack]

Road close? As a kid I never remembered it snowing …right. To many safety issues and lack of competent people to remove and maintain.

It really snowed a lot in the pre 80's,
I remember logging trucks driving through Salmo chained up and Revelstoke running out of food, no roads open for 4-days or so, saw pictures of revy in the 40-50's with stairs going up to the street because they couldn't get rid of the snow and windows dug out. (not drifts) The old timers were tough.

 

[lilduke]

Yep roads are a joke

 

[Bnorth]

Drove into Kamloops from Edmonton yesterday. That was a long drive. 60km/hr between Valemount and Blue River. Couldn't pass. Couldn't see enough to.
Stopped in Blue for bathroom breaks. Lucked out highway was empty in front and behind us. Until just past Vavenby.
Caught up the slow convoy again. 60km/hr into Clearwater.

It sucked.

Shoulda stopped in Blue for a ride, there's a lesson there lol

 

[RXN]

Shoulda stopped in Blue for a ride, there's a lesson there lol

If I had brought the sled lol.
Couldn't make it fit in the wife's compass.

 

[Flapjack]

The hwy crews want to work M-F dayshift,... they fall behind if it snows outside of those hours.

 

[tripster]

It also doesn't help getting rid of reliable avalanche control and replacing with choppers that cant fly in bad weather.

 

[Rn4]

If I had brought the sled lol.
Couldn't make it fit in the wife's compass.

Slap the sled on the roof

 

[FernieHawk]

We were planing on heading from Kelowna to Fernie tomorrow and just looked at Drive BC. Kootenay pass will be closed tomorrow for avalanche control from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm…right when we were planing on travelling. Fugggg.

 

[Scrambled]

I'm working on one of them closed road doing 14 hours a day so some of us our trying, there's a chit load of snow in certain spots but we've been pushing for 3 day and made it 5 km

 

[LUCKY 7]

We were planing on heading from Kelowna to Fernie tomorrow and just looked at Drive BC. Kootenay pass will be closed tomorrow for avalanche control from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm…right when we were planing on travelling. Fugggg.

Take the ferry across. I bit longer but it should be open

 

[freeflorider]

I'm working on one of them closed road doing 14 hours a day so some of us our trying, there's a chit load of snow in certain spots but we've been pushing for 3 day and made it 5 km

Looks like a bush road, never seen a cat opening a hwy.

 

[Scrambled]

It's considered a class 2 hwy and designates bus route the last 10 kms are gravel due to steepness ,just had this conversation with the ministry of highways today .the problem rose due to the fact they never pushed the snow back far enough not taking into consideration that there was a ton more coming so the road is barely wide enough for a truck and 7 ft snow banks so we have to push everything over the bank or in-between the trees .oh and just so ya know we did the first 2 km on pavement so yes they do use cats.