Flooding in White Rock

[tigerfeet]

Steven Seagal has a trailer in White Rock, where he stays while filiming in B.C. This news, then...

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=9495b70f-dc55-4a5d-9b1a-69deb6f388bd

Heavy rain floods White Rock street
Catherine Rolfsen, Vancouver Sun
Published: Tuesday, June 10, 2008
A number of White Rock businesses and residences were flooded Monday evening after heavy rain caused manhole covers to pop off and drench Marine Drive.
"There was a large amount of rain that fell in a short amount of time," said White RCMP Const. Janelle Canning.
She said the water pressure in storm drains was enough to dislodge about 20 manhole covers across White Rock.

For about 45 minutes, a popular stretch of Marine Drive between Oxford and Lee streets was closed to traffic and local residents were warned not to leave their homes because of the flood danger. Canning said people were "feverishly pumping out the water" in the few businesses and residences where flooding occurred.
By 7:30 p.m., police, firefighters and city workers had managed to replace the manholes, Canning said.
"Thankfully the weather has cooperated with us," she added.
The rains abated just in time to prevent potentially worse flooding.
Brant Darling, a server at Cosmos Greek Restaurant -- one of the many eateries along the waterfront stretch -- said that for a while, "we were pretty much in danger of getting flooded inside. If the tide was in a little bit further ... they might have not been able to deal with it."
He said the restaurant remained open during the worst of it, with people bringing out brooms to clear the storm drains.


i can't find anything about our man, so I assume he's fine, if a bit wet!

 

[tigerfeet]

And from another source:
http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/...wers_080610/20080610/?hub=BritishColumbiaHome


Flash floods cause rising tides and tempers

Updated: Tue Jun. 10 2008 07:07:13

ctvbc.ca

As a torrential downpour hammered downtown Vancouver Monday, water pooled along Marine Drive in White Rock, damaging at least one home and causing many to panic.

"Within a couple of minutes the cars were close to being flooded so we jumped in our cars and had to move them to the other side," said resident Pete Kalius.

"There was a flood of calls that came in over about a 20 minute period," said White Rock RCMP Constable Janelle Canning. "Our phone lines were jammed."

Residents say the flooding was fast and furious.

"I mean the grass and everything was covered," said Rosemarie Nakamura. "The rain was right up to my doorstep."

Many people are tired of living in fear every time it rains, and feel the city should do something about the problem.

"The city has sort of dumped it on residents," said long time resident Regan Mulligan. "They claim that we built on a flood plane and that it's our responsibility."

But the city says it has improved conditions since a 1999 flood wrecked havoc on White Rock, causing millions of dollars in damage to area homes and businesses.

"The city has invested a significant amount of money in various drainage upgrades in and around this area," says David Pollack.

But Regan Mulligan still remembers the devastation of the floods nine years ago.

"The drain was similar but we had a lot of hail beforehand," said Mulligan. "It had blocked all the drains and so forth. And the same time the creek overflowed down the street which made things that much worse."

Luckily, this flood drained in a matter of minutes. The city credits recently installed0 drainage systems. The residents, however, thank Mother Nature for taking it easy on them this time.

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[Sue]

Sounds lucky the flood wasn't too bad - because the weather cooperated with them, how did they manage that?

Hopefully our guy didn't get his feet wet.

 

[Chef]

To bad about the flood. There are areas where I think people should just move away from. That isn't always possible though.

Thanks for the very interesting and informative post.

Jim USA

 

[tigerfeet]

Just noticed this funny quote in one of the articles...

"There was a flood of calls that came in over about a 20 minute period," said White Rock RCMP Constable Janelle Canning.

A FLOOD of calls? Really?