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stevebradford said:
I heard a couple stations in town are running out of fuel today.

With the Trans mountain pipeline shutdown https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6249982
and with no trucks able to make the drive from Alberta, Washington just as rough as us I wonder how the fuel supply will be.
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Thanks for the head's up. Maybe will top up on diesel at lunch....will be good for another month then, haha.
 
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“Abbotsford Mayor Henry Braun has issued a desperate plea to anyone who has stayed behind in Sumas Prairie, particularly livestock farmers, to abandon the livestock and evacuate immediately.
The City of Abbotsford issued an emergency evacuation notice, saying the flooding in that area is anticipated to become “catastrophic,” in a press release issued at around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday (Nov. 16).


“The surge in water that we’re experiencing… is from the Nooksack river, coming through from Washington State,” Braun said, adding that all four pumps at the Barrowtown Pump Station are at full capacity, together pumping about half a million gallons per minute. The pumping station itself is less than a meter and losing ground from being flooded and failing.

“Pump station is operating at our full capacity… but it was never designed to take on water from another country.”
The mayor said that the absolute worst case scenario would be more rain, which would fill up old Sumas Lake – about 10 metres deep – which takes up the eastern two-thirds of Sumas Prairie.

Fraser Valley farmers supply 50 per cent of all B.C.’s eggs, chickens and dairy products. There are 45,000 dairy cows in the valley, and each chicken farm has around 25,000 birds. The city does not yet know how many animals have been lost.”

Buy some chicken, eggs, milk and gas before it’s unavailable and or the prices sky rocket.
 
stevebradford said:
www.vicnews.com

Malahat to close overnight for 7 days after flooding, BC Ferries stepping in again

Overnight crews to repair Hwy 1 damage caused by recent weather conditions
www.vicnews.com www.vicnews.com

They got all the porta johns installed today!

Product shortage at Okanagan grocery stores, due to highway closures

Save On Foods was without produce Tuesday morning
www.vicnews.com www.vicnews.com
One day in and the stores are emptying already!
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Our western civilization really does hang by a complacent little thread.

Years ago, (like 2010? ) we saw two women get into a full on scrap in Costco over the last flat of bottled water...

Because of a ****ing turbidity warning and boil water advisory after some moderate rain.

This is the mentality you're dealing with :rolleyes:




I filled up this morning on the way to work. Managed to put $102 into the 60. First time I've cracked the 100 mark in it.

At least it got me 650kms, which isn't too bad for a heavy old pig like a 60 I guess.
 
seapotato said:
Our western civilization really does hang by a complacent little thread.
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Exactly. We are like a big herd of antelope, with the most paranoid easily freaked out people setting off the whole herd at the littlest problem, which then compounds us into two years of fricken lockdown and no end in sight. Everybody needs to calm the f down soon, or we will continually run ourselves into the ground, and won't ever get back to any thing close to normal. The media and social media aren't helping the panic by constantly bombarding us with the death and destruction till even the most sane are jumpy.
 
Yeah I don't think the current evolution of the human mind is able to cope with social media.

The echo chamber where ANY idea can get bounced back and amplified. Used to be a punch in the face would stop you from saying something stupid.

My wife got an email from an ex coworker she hasn't seen in 10 years. He was kinda probing for a response on her opinions about the state of the world, politics etc.

She gave a fairly bland reply based on what he used to be like, not wanting to step in anything and received a 3 page manifesto in response.

Dude sounded like he'd been indoctrinated into a cult. Fawking scary.



Same thing at work. Watched a guy go from reasonable, to full on conspiracy theory crazy in a year. Mainly from being alone on the internet on nightshift.

Too easy to pump crazy s*** into a brain with this total immersion.
 
Crazy people aside, for the heck of it I stopped at a gas station last night. Completely out of gas (with idiots waiting in line for nothing), but lots of diesel still. So I filled up and watched in humor while yet more idiots waited in line behind me thinking I was filling with gas. :lol:
 
Swmbo was planning to go to Costco today. That might be a s***show.

I think I'm gonna pull the other cruiser out for a burn and fill it up tho. This all feels like a great excuse for them to raise the price by 30 cents, then when it drops by 20 cents 2 weeks later everyone will be happy.
 
Crazy people further aside,

Been a while since I bought some, anywhere better than anywhere else to buy batteries these days? Used to be a tossup between costco and crappy tire.

Green truck's batteries took a beating when my alternator pooped out it's diodes, so I figured I'd do the trickle down. Put new ones in the 60, green gets the hand me downs, then the hand me hand me downs into tractors.

And then, maybe, MAYBE...there'd be one left so I could start that red piece of s*** someone abandoned here 3 years ago without a battery or fuel tank and tires that go flat within a week....looking at you @Toshi38 :flipoff2: :lol:
 
seapotato said:
Crazy people further aside,

Been a while since I bought some, anywhere better than anywhere else to buy batteries these days? Used to be a tossup between costco and crappy tire.

Green truck's batteries took a beating when my alternator pooped out it's diodes, so I figured I'd do the trickle down. Put new ones in the 60, green gets the hand me downs, then the hand me hand me downs into tractors.

And then, maybe, MAYBE...there'd be one left so I could start that red piece of s*** someone abandoned here 3 years ago without a battery or fuel tank and tires that go flat within a week....looking at you @Toshi38 :flipoff2: :lol:
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My latest battery I bought direct from an Interstate store in Colwood. Not the lowest price, but I've found them to last longer and be higher quality than any others I've used. (I've also used Costco and Can Tires ones in my truck, and still buy them for my RV and wifes car which are less demanding.)
 
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Driving in today every gas station I passed is still out of gas, guess those tankers never arrived!
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They never said what fuel they were bringing down island if I was making the decisions i would ensure the critical infrastructure’s supply first. Buses, garbage trucks, recycling trucks, delivery trucks machinery, everything that uses the card lock stations. That alone in Victoria would chew threw several tankers of diesel every day.
 
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