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Here's why it's windy.

AWWS - gfacn31_cldwx_000-e.html

And here's the wind in Richmond.

VANCOUVER INTL, IIDS WebView

didn't want to start a new thread for this. Car accident on 16th and granville. Possibly related to the weather. Looks really god damn nasty. Stolen from scanbc
http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/722...0ejpglarge.jpg

Saw a little kid fall down from the wind :(

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Originally Posted by Everymans (Post 7685332)

Holy shit! Any Rs'er got the story?

the wind was pretty intense hah. i've never seen it that bad during the day before. shit tons of leaves everywhere today as i was driving. lots of broken branches on the pavement and hidden beneath stacks of leaves. if your shit is lowered, be careful!

best post of the thread :rofl: :

Spoiler!

Shoot, it's a STI too! Slow it down people!
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Holy fuck hope the drivers and passengers (if there was any) are alright!

Kinda glad my plans got ruined today, shit looked pretty scary from what I saw out my window lol.

damn that looks horrible. can't even tell what the blue car is. hope everyone involved is fine.

weather seems fine now. still a bit windy, but not as wild as earlier today.

damn it looks like a bunch of area in richmond is out of power.

Got home and the car tent was still up. I bolted that sucker down pretty good. Now have to worry about heavy snow.

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Originally Posted by Everymans (Post 7685332)

holy shit!!! hope both drivers are okay.

Heads up to Richmond people. Granville street has a couple lights down especially Granville and garden city.
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^ all traffic north of granville running normal

OMG FINALLY POWER IS BACK

Balloons were flying around and many of the car alarms were set off at the car dealer by Steveston and 99 highway today as I passed by.

Video shot in Nanaimo.

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Originally Posted by Amuse (Post 7685704)

Balloons were flying around and many of the car alarms were set off at the car dealer by Steveston and 99 highway today as I passed by.

That dealership likes to put all the hazard lights on in the front row to attract attenion
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omg that looks horrible... i hope those involved survived that crash but wow that other car doesn't look good

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Originally Posted by Everymans (Post 7685332)

Saw it when I was going towards dt, and had to do a detour. I thought there was another car involved, 3 in total? Might have been a witness maybe? Looks pretty nasty, hope the drivers are ok
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WOW really OP started a new thread about the winds cuz it's blowing hard...umnnn WTF... this happens every year around OCT> NOV. Where the Fukk have you been....

^ not as bad as this year

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Originally Posted by Boostaholic (Post 7685994)

^ not as bad as this year

yesterday's wind storm was bad??? ummmnnn Try Dec 06...

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CTV.ca News Staff

Date: Tue. Dec. 19 2006 9:34 PM ET

Vancouver's famous Stanley Park has lost more than 1,000 trees, after a series of storms battered the West Coast with near-hurricane force winds.

The devastation is so immense that the park's manager went up in CTV Vancouver's "Chopper Nine" helicopter to get a better sense of the damage.

"I can tell you that all the staff are pretty shook up about this whole thing," said maintenance supervisor Eric Meagher.

The clean-up is expected to take months, as crews cut down damaged trees, haul away fallen branches and clear roads.

While the east side of the park is now open to the public, the west side could remain closed for another week. Workers have yet to clear out any of the area's trails, which remain highly dangerous.

"Some trees were uprooted, some were broken, and some were hit by other trees. So it's a combination of problems," said Meagher.

Vancouver's Board of Parks and Recreation may consider using commercial logging trucks to help remove the trees and speed up the process.

One fallen hemlock tree was estimated to be more than 200 years old. Replanting could take years, and the park board is accepting donations from the public to help the renewal process.

"Hundreds and hundreds of trees were either uprooted or simply snapped off, by winds that were estimated to be at least 100 kilometres per hour, and sometimes gusting well beyond that," reported CTV Vancouver's David Kincaid, who surveyed the damage in Chopper Nine.

Stanley Park measures about 400 hectares and first opened to the public on Oct. 29, 1889. Perhaps its most unique feature is the 8.8-kilometre long Seawall, but the barrier was also damaged by the wind.

"The Seawall has been physically damaged, not just by trees lying on it, but large portions of the pavement scoured away by the waves," said Kincaid.

The brutal wind storm also created havoc on the city's annual Bright Nights in Stanley Park display. The event is organized by firefighters to raise money for burn victims.

Firefighters helped to restore the display through the weekend so it could open Monday.

The West Coast was hit by three major storms in total. David Phillips, a senior climatologist with Environment Canada, described them as "jumbo jets on the airport tarmac. You had one coming in right after another."

At one point, about 240,000 BC Hydro customers were without electricity.

Two elderly people in Burnaby, B.C. were discovered dead Sunday, the apparent victims of carbon monoxide poisoning that could be related to the power outage.

The RCMP found a generator along with the bodies of a 66-year-old male and 65-year-old woman.

The couple were living in one of the last areas of the Lower Mainland left without power in the wake of an extreme windstorm that hit Thursday night.

With reports from CTV Vancouver

Read more: CTV News - B.C.'s Stanley Park loses 1,000 trees after storm

I was in a warehouse by steveston and we lost power last night and the whole warehouse went pitch black it was pretty freaky. We stood around for an hour before supervisor told us to go home. Have to make up the work today though.