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[dieseldawg142]

like i said, we had countless slides all over the place...like this unfortunate guy down the road from me, don't think the geo-techs are gonna let him move back in.
thought it was just another slide, till ya drive around it and see where it came from....poor guy..


slides all over...


worst part imo is we lost pretty much every back road and FSR road. me and the dawgs have not been able to get down pretty much every single back road we tried. the valley will look a lot different for riding next summer.
there was never a river or creek in this area, took out approx 3 miles of the road

[HO455]

I have friends just outside of Abbotsford that are still trying to save their home and business from flooding caused by a landslide. The rains just keeping coming without let up making things worse.

[dieseldawg142]

Originally Posted by HO455

I have friends just outside of Abbotsford that are still trying to save their home and business from flooding caused by a landslide. The rains just keeping coming without let up making things worse.

actually the last 2 weeks have helped, got a arctic outflow happening, we been hanging around -15C to -25C (0 to -15F) and it has slowed down the water and snow coming off the mountains (but now i gotta shovel the "rain" outta my driveway...)
there was NEVER a waterfall or even a creek here before...


this bites, looks like me and the dawgs will be hoofing it a lot more next yr..

[dieseldawg142]

big prob now is all the lumber that came down...it's like this everywhere on every river & creek


the river actually came up over this back road, ate a bunch of the bank away too. that's silt and mud from the river under the snow


this little puddle down the road from me. it caught a couple cars, me and wifey went thru here later and there was a swamped out honda and a chryco 300 sitting there


at least it ain't raining anymore......
darn, i'm really hating the shovel right now...

[dieseldawg142]

the waters are receeding out here now


the military choppered in a bunch of pumps. this pump station was built in the '20's (with upgrades over the yrs)
there is 4 massive pumps in there, they have never run all 4 at once, and never at full bore, for 7 days they were all going full blast and they we worried about one pump going down, it would have allowed the river to start backflowing in again. at the peak it was pumping over 650 000 gpm


authorities kicked all boats out of the flood area except for emergency personal. you got yahoos like this guy making waves compounding damage to people houses and property's


about the only damage no one regrets is this little turnaround on the highway...this is where 5-0 usually sits.

[Stocker]

Those are some amazing pics.... the damage there is mind-boggling.

[72c20customcamper]

Today at one of streams running off the reservoir. He/she was perched on a limb about 10 ft from the road I stopped but couldn’t get the camera out fast enough before it took flight .

[LockDoc]

Originally Posted by 72c20customcamper

Today at one of streams running off the reservoir. He/she was perched on a limb about 10 ft from the road I stopped but couldn’t get the camera out fast enough before it took flight .

We had an occupied nest about 5 miles North of me and the last wind storm we had took it down. You can't even tell there was anything there. The nest had been there and used for the last 4 years.... Bummer.

LockDoc

[72c20customcamper]

Originally Posted by LockDoc

We had an occupied nest about 5 miles North of me and the last wind storm we had took it down. You can't even tell there was anything there. The nest had been there and used for the last 4 years.... Bummer.

LockDoc

We have a lot of Bald eagles around here now . 10 years ago there were just a couple nesters but they have had on average 2 to 3 hatchlings early spring so they multiply expedentially.

[1slo64]

You wouldn’t know it was 80 degrees here with tornadoes just 2 days ago.

[LockDoc]

Originally Posted by 1slo64

You wouldn’t know it was 80 degrees here with tornadoes just 2 days ago.

I saw yesterday on a YouTube weather channel that some of you down there were supposed to get snow, and frost/freeze warnings all the way down to the gulf..... Bummer..

LockDoc

[1slo64]

Originally Posted by LockDoc

I saw yesterday on a YouTube weather channel that some of you down there were supposed to get snow, and frost/freeze warnings all the way down to the gulf..... Bummer..

LockDoc

My area got about 5" of snow but thankfully majority of it has melted off of the main roadways.

[72c20customcamper]

Road find .

[LT7A]

Originally Posted by Killer Bee

sadly not much chance of saving this old 1800's barn but I might try some homemade shoring and restoration when I retire

dad and I lofted over two thousand bales in that barn only 35 years ago when we were feeding cattle out of it

back then stored a couple of tractors and the hay trailer in there too

mortise and tenon joints just sitting on limestone blocks, nothing in or fastened to the ground

I remember as a little kid my dad cleaning out the tack room and found a box of old wet dynamite.

thankfully the local quarry made arrangements with him to demo it for us.

I'll bet you could methodically work your way through that to make it safe, usable, and still be very rustic. If I lived a little closer, I'd be happy to come through and help you assess it and work out a plan.

[LT7A]

Originally Posted by dieseldawg142

the waters are receeding out here now
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the military choppered in a bunch of pumps. this pump station was built in the '20's (with upgrades over the yrs)
there is 4 massive pumps in there, they have never run all 4 at once, and never at full bore, for 7 days they were all going full blast and they we worried about one pump going down, it would have allowed the river to start backflowing in again. at the peak it was pumping over 650 000 gpm

authorities kicked all boats out of the flood area except for emergency personal. you got yahoos like this guy making waves compounding damage to people houses and property's

about the only damage no one regrets is this little turnaround on the highway...this is where 5-0 usually sits.

DD142, thanks for the pictorial tour. That amount of damage is literally nearly unbelievable.

[special-K]

Originally Posted by LT7A

DD142, thanks for the pictorial tour. That amount of damage is literally nearly unbelievable.

Yeah, thanks. That's just what I was thinking. You could say the earth's not done yet

[mr.mud1]

When i grow up i want to be.....

[Steeveedee]

In the '70s, when I worked on John Deere equipment (independent shop, servicing all brands), that could have been a Ford 9N or some such. Hadn't ever heard of Kubota, back then. Maybe they existed, I just never knew.

[dieseldawg142]

this bites...

[special-K]

Originally Posted by mr.mud1

When i grow up i want to be.....

Is that big boy a Deutz?

Originally Posted by dieseldawg142

this bites...

Yes it does. I'll take a foot of snow over freezing rain any day.

I have 4" of fresh snow to push off once the sun comes up.

[mr.mud1]

Originally Posted by special-K

Is that big boy a Deutz?

Yes it does. I'll take a foot of snow over freezing rain any day.

I have 4" of fresh snow to push off once the sun comes up.

hi,that big boy was a FENDT,evidently a german tractor manufacturer.i took a run through the yard,these people had a Kabota coming in on trade and i was interested in it so i wanted to see if it was there,never saw the orange one but this poor little thing sitting out back with the big guys,made me laugh.i had never heard of Fendt but this place is a tractor dealer,mainly Kabota but tractors of every flavour seemed to be there.i used to truck with a guy,put a v-12,i think it was Duetz diesel in a highway truck.he used to drive in the winter with a snowmobile suit on,freezing to death with an air cooled engine?
we don't have a drop of snow,you couldn't find enough snow here to make a snowball,but supposed to be a storm coming through here today.tomorrow it'll look different i'm sure.

[special-K]

I've never heard of a Fendt either. I first saw a Deutz tractor at the first tractor pull I ever attended. It amazed me with it'd torque. My dad said German Panzer tanks were Deutz powered. You know, Diamond Reo tried producing Deutz powered trucks. They had a distinctive look. The first "ant eater". They did not go over well, possibly for the lack of heat



Running this must have been a hateful job . I wonder what they did for a defroster?

[mr.mud1]

Originally Posted by special-K

I've never heard of a Fendt either. I first saw a Deutz tractor at the first tractor pull I ever attended. It amazed me with it'd torque. My dad said German Panzer tanks were Deutz powered. You know, Diamond Reo tried producing Deutz powered trucks. They had a distinctive look. The first "ant eater". They did not go over well, possibly for the lack of heat
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Running this must have been a hateful job . I wonder what they did for a defroster?

i don't know what they did for heat?maybe a gas heater like a vw bug?a 100 years ago when i was a kid in Montreal,there was a girl in my class,her dad was a salesman for Diamond Reo,i think back then they had Mack cabs?you're probably right about the Duetz engines in Panzer tanks.i did see a documentary one time about WW2 and they talked about some of the German tanks with Maybach engines and being so complicated and hard to work on out in field,it led to alot of them being left behind?interesting stuff.

[dieseldawg142]

Originally Posted by special-K

Yes it does. I'll take a foot of snow over freezing rain any day.

I have 4" of fresh snow to push off once the sun comes up.

i'd take the snow too....but we already have about 14-16" of snow under the ice...
almost an inch in spots- kills me seeing my toy like this...humbug

[dieseldawg142]

ya, this really bites...


the road in front of my house is covered in 3" of pure ice


hope our power stays up. we lost it last night for 'bout 6 hrs...
now all you hear out there is branches and trees dropping everywhere...like flies


can't even get into my beater, froze over