{"id":39557,"date":"2021-11-16T07:38:59","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T07:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=39557"},"modified":"2021-11-17T08:04:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T08:04:37","slug":"bc-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2021\/11\/16\/bc-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Landslides and road damage from an atmospheric river event in British Columbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Landslides and road damage from am atmospheric river event in British Columbia<\/h4>\n<p>British Columbia, in western Canada, suffered an atmospheric river rainfall event on Sunday and Monday that caused extensive damage and many landslides.\u00a0 The full picture will not become clear until later this week, but levels of damage to the road network look to be high in places.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/basudelon.livejournal.com\/19950.html\">Live Journal has a good gallery of images of the aftermath<\/a>, including this picture of a landslide on Highway 1 between Agassiz and Hope:-<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_39560\" style=\"width: 809px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39560\" class=\" wp-image-39560\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2021\/11\/21_11-BC-1.jpg\" alt=\"A landslide on Highway 1 between Agassiz and Hope in British Columbia. \" width=\"799\" height=\"1064\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2021\/11\/21_11-BC-1.jpg 1079w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2021\/11\/21_11-BC-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2021\/11\/21_11-BC-1-769x1024.jpg 769w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2021\/11\/21_11-BC-1-768x1023.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-39560\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A landslide on Highway 1 between Agassiz and Hope in British Columbia. <a href=\"https:\/\/basudelon.livejournal.com\/19950.html\">Image from Livejournal<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile another landslide occurred on Highway 5 to the north of Hope:-<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_39562\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39562\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39562\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2021\/11\/21_11-BC-2.jpg\" alt=\"A landslide on Highway 5 to the north of Hope in British Columbia. \" width=\"800\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2021\/11\/21_11-BC-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2021\/11\/21_11-BC-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2021\/11\/21_11-BC-2-768x577.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-39562\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A landslide on Highway 5 to the north of Hope in British Columbia. <a href=\"https:\/\/basudelon.livejournal.com\/19950.html\">Image from Livejournal.<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most spectacular problem has occurred on Highway 1 between Lytton and Nicomen.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TranBC\/status\/1460391772304064517\">BC Transportation has tweeted a remarkable set of images of the impact at that site<\/a>:-<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A look from a flyover of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BCHwy1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BCHwy1<\/a> at Tank Hill near Lytton and Nicomen. <\/p>\n<p>For the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BCStorm?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BCStorm<\/a> travel info, check <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DriveBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DriveBC<\/a>&#39;s website: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0sq39Ad5WN\">https:\/\/t.co\/0sq39Ad5WN<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TransCanadaHighway?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TransCanadaHighway<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/N4zVto5vNK\">pic.twitter.com\/N4zVto5vNK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BC Transportation (@TranBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TranBC\/status\/1460391772304064517?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>That is not going to be quick job to fix.\u00a0 I believe that this is within the area that was affected by the large wildfire in July 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TranBC\/status\/1460395410258907137\">And BC Highways has also tweeted images of a mudslide on Highway 99 near to Lillooet<\/a>:-<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BChwy99?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BChwy99<\/a> near <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Lillooet?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Lillooet<\/a> is closed due to a mudslide between Lil&#39;wat Pl and Texas Creek Rd for 44.6 km. Assessment in progress. <br \/>Please check <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NCVlkn102s\">https:\/\/t.co\/NCVlkn102s<\/a> for updates. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UAJcfR9KaH\">pic.twitter.com\/UAJcfR9KaH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BC Transportation (@TranBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TranBC\/status\/1460395410258907137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the <a href=\"https:\/\/vancouversun.com\/news\/local-news\/significant-atmospheric-river-causing-rainfall-warnings-across-southern-b-c\">Vancouver Sun reports that as many as 275 people were trapped between two landslides on Highway 7 near to Agassiz<\/a>.\u00a0 It has a nice graphic illustrating the scale of the issue:-<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_39564\" style=\"width: 574px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39564\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39564\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2021\/11\/21_11-BC-3.jpg\" alt=\"A graphic from the Vancouver sun illustrating the scale of the issues caused by the atmospheric river in British Columbia. \" width=\"564\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2021\/11\/21_11-BC-3.jpg 564w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2021\/11\/21_11-BC-3-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-39564\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A graphic from the <a href=\"https:\/\/vancouversun.com\/news\/local-news\/significant-atmospheric-river-causing-rainfall-warnings-across-southern-b-c\">Vancouver Sun<\/a> illustrating the scale of the issues caused by the atmospheric river in British Columbia.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vancouversun.com\/news\/local-news\/significant-atmospheric-river-causing-rainfall-warnings-across-southern-b-c\">The Vancouver Sun reports that 225 mm of rainfall was recorded at Hope in this storm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately it appears that there has been at least one life lost in these landslides, and the damage appears to be severe.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<h4>Acknowledgement<\/h4>\n<p>Many thanks to the various people who have provided information about this event, especially Charles Hunt and Susan DeSandoli.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An atmospheric river rainfall event on Sunday and Monday caused large numbers of landslides in British Columbia, Canada.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":39560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[840,4,469,103,959,27],"class_list":["post-39557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-report","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-featured","tag-highway","tag-landslide-report","tag-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}