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We describe and model the evolution of a recent landslide, tsunami, outburst flood, and sediment plume in the southern Coast Mountains, British Columbia, Canada. On November 28, 2020, about 18 million m 3 of rock descended 1,000 m from a steep valley wall and traveled across the toe of a glacier before entering a 0.6 km 2 glacier lake and producing >100-m high run-up.
Nov 23, 2021 · Satellite imagery from before and after the flooding in British Columbia reveal the true devastation the region has experienced. ... major drop in the number of new permanent residents Canada will ...
- The Storm
- The People and Animals Affected
- The People Helping
- The Damage
— 20: Rainfall records set Sunday as the storm rolled through southern B.C. — 24:Communities across the province that received more than 100 millimetres of rain in 48 hours, between 11 a.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. Monday. — 252 millimetres: Rainfall measured in Hope, B.C., in 48 hours. — 344 millimetres: Average rainfall for the entire month of Novemb...
— 17,775: People evacuated from their homes as of noon Wednesday as a result of the floods — enough people to fill nearly all of Rogers Arena in Vancouver. — 7,000: Estimated number of people evacuated from Merritt, B.C., alone on Monday, due to the rising Coldwater River. — 7:The minimum time in days before the people of Merritt will be able to go...
— 150:Volunteers who worked through the night to build a sandbag dam around the threatened Barrowtown Pump Station in Abbotsford, the failure of which would have been "catastrophic" for the already inundated Sumas Prairie. — 40,000: Sandbags delivered by Emil Anderson Maintenance on Tuesday night to protect the Barrowtown Pump Station. — 1: Small f...
— $1 billion:Estimated cost of flood damage in Abbotsford, B.C., according to the city's mayor. — $400 million:Estimated cost to repair the city's failed dikes, alone. — Hundreds: Farms affected by flooding, including some entirely underwater. — 24:Estimated closures on B.C. highways at one point due to rock or mudslides and flooding. — 6: Major hi...
Feb 21, 2022 · The flood in the upper reaches of Elliot Creek behaved as a Newtonian fluid but increasing bank failure and bed erosion provided sufficient sediment for the flood to transform into a non-Newtonian debris flood. The modeled outburst flood was supercritical (Froude number >1.0) along almost its entire route and for most of its 20-min duration.
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Nov 19, 2021 · The flooding in Canada's west may be the most expensive natural disaster in the country's history.
Nov 17, 2021 · Atmospheric rivers of the sort causing massive floods and mudslides in Canada's British Columbia are akin to a river in the sky, weather systems that carry up to 15 times the volume of the ...
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Nov 17, 2021 · Published Nov. 17, 2021 6:07 a.m. PST. Share. British Columbia Premier John Horgan announced a provincial state of emergency has been declared due to flooding that has displaced people from their ...
