Heavy snow hits Metro Vancouver
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- Drivers were hit by heavy snowfall Thursday afternoon across Metro Vancouver. CBC's Janella Hamilton reports the winter weather caused delays and spin-outs on some major routes.
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It's not heavy snow. It's like a few centimeters. This city simply doesnt know how to handle minimal amounts of snow. Look at your footage, the concrete on the roads is still visible.
And most people don't have winter tires and don't know how to drive on snow
Thats so true, people arent prepared for the snow here in Vancouver 😂
It has hills...and quite a few cars.
😅😭🤣👍
Who needs winter tires anyway
Gotta love CBC. Headine reads "Winter storm batters Vancouver." The road lines are still visible behind the reporter at Clark & Hwy . Headline should read '1mm of snow causes chaos on Vancouver roads.'😂
I still have to laugh about it, I get 1' plus snow every winter at my place. I have had zero issues, people in the GVRD are just not prepared.
Not sensational at all. It was traffic chaos though. 1mm of snow is all it takes for it in Vancouver
The temperature is far more scary at this point.
It's not that crazy but the ice will be causing problems.
-11C to -17C across the lower mainland.
Those roads definitely more clear in that area than Burnaby/Coquitlam on my commute home. Cities are relying on Brine instead of blasting the roads with salt and sand. Poor choice IMO. Vancouver switched to a beet juice mixture this year for some reason, could be a woke decision, not sure.
Soon, it will be a climate lockdown over 1mm of snow.
Think I'm joking?
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Crazy that 1 cm of snow never fails to cause the city to come to a grinding halt. Took me 2.5 hours to get home. It is very cold. So many people were underdressed for the weather. Dress up people! Stay warm.
There are many factors that come into account….it was all ice…it never snowed once all day..just freezing rain melting and freezing again
Its -40 with the windchill here in Edmonton. Ppl in vancouver are 2 ply soft
@@Tribuneoftheplebs it never snowed today at anypoint is was freezing rain which melted before rush hour and froze over again…
Vancouver does not get the same weather as Edmonton, whether it comes to precipitation or temps.@@Tribuneoftheplebs
@@Tribuneoftheplebsi was skiing at Whistler & it was -23°C, but they closed the alpine lifts due to cold!? I have to agree with you, because other resorts operate well into the -30s. I was actually too warm. 😂
Albertan is battling with extreme cold weather!right now is -34 but feels like-44
That's 'Berta for ya. Trust me, it's better than living on the West Coast. Layer Up and be grateful for the Sunshine and your Premier :))
Premier Smith > Premier Eny
There is one fucking cm of snow on the ground. This is not a storm. Man Vancouver is embarrassing at times...
City has no money. It's all being sent to Israel and Ukraine.
Yeah even after similar situations already took place last winter
Most of it is just media attention, the media always overdoes it when it comes to weather situations. 99.9% of people just keep on keeping on.
tell me you have never been in BC in winter without telling me you have never been in BC in winter. I used to make fun it too, until I moved it here and saw it for myself
@@ruhollahetemadi7518 I live in BC, I see the chaos... But this wasn't a storm, it was a light dusting of snow. Calling it a storm is ridiculous. BC needs to mandate winter tires province wide.
I don't think she knows what"spinning out" means. It's not a burnout or losing traction.. it's literally doing a 180 on your car
Spinning out on a hill is exactly what she said. Losing traction going straight ahead and your tires just spin. Hence spinning out. Doing donuts would be spinning around. …
she doesn't know, just like many Vancouver drivers when they see 3cm snow.
You know the lack of knowledge in geography, physics and weather you have to NOT have to laugh at Vancouver when only a few centimeters of snow falls? What most people fail to understand in this comment section is 1 cm of snow in Vancouver is not equivalent to 1 cm of snow anywhere else in Canada. Snow in Vancouver is almost always the same, it starts with rain, then changes to wet snow, to heavy wet snow and then the temperature drops a few degrees below freezing so the slush becomes compressed because of all the cars driving over it, then it becomes compressed ice. And when I say compressed ice, I mean half a centimeter of pure ice, as slippery as black ice anywhere else in Canada but with an environment with extremely high humidity. Couple that with hills literally everywhere, unprepared and untrained drivers, and you get yourself a disaster. I drove in almost all the provinces in Canada and BC is the most treacherous, dangerous and slippery place I ever been on. Even with a good car and great winter tires, you can be screwed real fast.
Yes, no where else experiences this at alllll.
That’s looking like a warm Alberta sask and Manitoba summer
Lol. Keep warm. -17C where I am.
It's not the snow that gets drivers in Vancouver it's the slick refreeze/ice on the roads with steep hills that cause the accidents. Although, there are also the drivers that never get winter tires. Okay, those drivers might be a bit part of the problem too.
Those driver are all the problem, 100%.
Lots of cities have hills. Stop making excuses for idiocy!
There are also people with very old winter tires. The ones who drive with them all year.
@@MrBashemTrue. I have a dedicated set of new studded snow tires and summers on rims. Tires are really only good for 5 years or so.
@@schwags1969AWD Subaru on my street abandoned on a hill with STUDDED winter tires... you sure that's a tire problem and not a driver problem?
"Heavy snow"???? Have you even been outside?
City has no money. It's all being sent to Israel and Ukraine.
Watching it from Saskatoon this looks so funny:D
Not enough snow to build a snowman and the city is paralyzed. And they say we are prepared for a major earthquake....
City has no money. It's all being sent to Israel and Ukraine.
We are ...the government doesn't care about you.
Wake up.
Snow isn't the issue, it was the ice buildup. Even in Alberta icy conditions cause lots of issues.
So why didn’t they salt the roads? I don’t get it. They knew what the forecast was
because they would rather pay city workers $45 per hour to do nothing
City has no money. It's all being sent to Israel and Ukraine.
Because they are corrupt duh 😅
You can only salt so much at a time
@@TheAircool1 Didn’t even see one salt on the road 2 hours before the snow fell.
All that carbontax you pay is cooling the weather. Bravo.
OMG what a joke. Not even enough snow to plow.
City has no money. It's all being sent to Israel and Ukraine.
It's not the tires, it's the drivers
50/50, I see so many cars with crappy summer tires all the time.
Safety is every driver's main responsibility. Drivers are responsible for the safety of their vehicles
100% snowtires don't fix stupid
Coming from north central Wisconsin, i know snow and five months of driving rural roads in snow for five months out of every year. Now, living in Vancouver, i can honestly say that the microclimate of this city on the Salish Sea is different than most places where snow falls. In my opinion, it is best that people living in the greater lower mainland would do best to just stay home on snow days. We have no business driving. Stay home, bake some cookies or just get baked. Whatever folks do, just don't do it in a car on the road.
Terrible drivers. Ice 🧊 on the streets. Saw a bus 🚌 stuck at the top of a small Davie Street hill. Pathetic.
Below zero, is like 32 degrees Fahrenheit
I seen it😂
Remember the winter of 1987 when along the TCH around Langley transformers were EXPLODING from the cold????
Gridlock ????? Traffic seemed to be flowing nicely behind het
It was horrible in Burnaby. Took two hours to move a few blocks on Willingdon. Apparently it was fine south of Fraser.
Maybe half these people will realize mustangs and challengers on summers doesn't work in this weather.
Where’s the snow ??? That’s just a dusting.
It's -20 and snow in Kelowna. No delays, no panic, no spin-outs. Metro Vancouver is full of "talented" people 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
-20 means no ice which is a big difference.
@@cgtrout lots of ice. Everywhere!
@@lava3475The worst driving conditions are often the times where the temperature hovers around freezing. This means the roads first get wet and then as they cool down to freezing ice starts to form. At -20 snow falls and stays as snow. Sure, once it starts to get packed down it can start to ice up, but still isn't as bad as the near freezing point conditions that were in vancouver.
@@lava3475 I live in alberta, and it is often pure chaos when we get these icy conditions just below the freezing point. In theory drivers here should know better but obviously don't.
@@cgtrout I lived in Vancouver for 20 years. I know all about the weather conditions. It looks like ice and snow and slippery roads are only in Vancouver Nowhere else 🤣
In reality it is crappy city preparations to every winter season. And people who save on winter tires despite the fact that every winter they risk their lives I am not even talking about the percentage of really bad drivers. Bingo
It's not heavy snow. You don't even need snow tires for this, as the friction and exhaust of cars will have it melted by the time plows are on the road. Keep your speed 20kmph below the limit on unplowed roadway, and if you lose traction, take your foot off of the accelerator and carefully guide the vehicle until it regains traction. This is basic car operation in Canada. Anywhere other than Vancouver, there would be far fewer accidents.
It's not snow. It's ice.
City has no money. It's all being sent to Israel and Ukraine.
I grew up in the interior. Even with all our extensive experience with winter driving there would always be a flurry of accidents after the first snowfall before everyone tuned in again.
The difference in Van is really the people who think snow tires are optional.
Yeah, well why do people slam on their brakes when they are at the top of a hill, big on small when they know it is icy. Because they don't know how to drive. It's appalling how poorly people drive in Vancouver irrespective of the weather. @@PocketSand14
Hello BC, there are tires called "Winter Tires" or "Snow Tires" for sale near you to let you drive safely.
"Heavy" snow.
City has no money. It's all being sent to Israel and Ukraine.
I luv the skit where 1 guy yells ," What are you doing , don't you know how to drive ?".. Guy responds ," I'm from Vancouver... I don't even know what half the buttons on this dash are for !"..😅
It’s nice for them to get a reminder that they live in Canada
Everyone should blame the cities to be super unprepared . They knew about this but did absolutely nothing.
But they never forget to hike the taxes and dish out parking tickets
September : "The planet is on fire !"
January : "Global cooling is dangerous !"
we need more global warming
City knew about minus temps days ago, why wasn’t roads salted prior or during storm? Poor planning as usual
City has no money. It's all being sent to Israel and Ukraine.
@@havoc7154Don't infuriate the Liberal CBC watchers 😂
I see there is not heavy snow in Vancouver. I still can see black on the road .
Winter tires ????
or even all-weather tires would work
Sipped and studded?
LOL, The reporter should pick a spot where they are heavy snow because from where she was that they are now snow. Our Alberta weather is -40c with snow. For goodness sake, just replace snow tires, less braking and drive normally.
Lol, I live along North Road and could hear people yelling and swearing at each other about an hour after the snow started. Having grown up in Ontario I find it funny how such a tiny amount of snow can cause such havoc.
I once dropped a 5kg bag of flour in a grocery's parking lot which broke and covered half a parking spot. It caused traffic jams for as far as one could see because they all thought it was snow. Vancouver can be quite amusing at times if it wasn't so sad.
today I went from Burnaby to White Rock and been waiting for 30 minutes in Surrey Central Station for the 321 bus with -5 degrees cause delays on conection buses
Pfft you dont need snow to have delays coming out of Vancouver. Can be a sun shiney summer day and still takes hours. 1 accident or flat tire or stalled vehicle and good luck getting out of Van. 😂
The lines of traffic are reminiscent of the enormous lift lines at Whistler last Saturday.
Maybe teach drivers how to drive in all conditions
It is Vancouver they probably never seen snow before.
@waterbottle4782 I lived there and on the island it snows a little bit every year people know it it's more that no one gets any proper training on all season driving even truckers don't so there's a problem with the system not the people
@@waterbottle4782 they only see it a few times a year but somehow can't stay home those days.
How? You can't train it unless you are on it.
@@nathanlarson9787sorry but you’re wrong. It is 100% the people.
I just got off if the road. 91 was a parking lot. No, it didn't snow much, but a lot of you are missing the point about he ice. It's worse than you think. We were allcfishtailing at very low speeds. Also, I'm from ON and have snow tires on my car.
😀😃😄😆😅🤣😂😭 Are you news broadcasters for real??? Lol!
It is a huge light snow , but how can you use heavy ?
What the smug deriders here in the comments don’t understand is the special circumstance of the Lower Mainland. The near-zero temperatures with fluctuations above and below make ICE a very real problem. I was on the road, which had not accumulated much snow at the time, and it got icy FAST! You do not get that in places with consistent sub zero temps and a snow pack. And just so you know, I have M+S tires, 4WD, and have a lot of winter driving experience somewhere other than Vancouver. I took my driving test in snow. I’ve driven the Coquihalla in a snowstorm, which is preferable to Vancouver ice.
Yeah, I'd say you are right; winter in the interior is plowed and sanded; with the humidity, in Vancouver it's often just sheer ice. I would say the worst winter driving I have ever encountered, by far, would be the Sea To Sky.
🤣
Next, you’ll be telling us the water is wetter in B C..
@@shootist279 - Funny you should mention it. I've cycled a lot in the rain here. Aside from an outright downpour, there sometimes occurs this fine, misty rain situation that will get you wetter faster than almost any other kind of rain. I haven't really seen it anywhere else.
Listening to this, you'd think it was the blizzard of '96. If I was the reporter, I would feel embarrassed.
Vancouver.....the Miami of Canada. 😅
And what's up with the Transit busses not equipped with winter tires?
way back in the mid-eighties we had a Friday p.m. ice/snow storm like this, and I was picking up people out of cars all along the freeway. One lady said her "idiot" light was only on " a little bit". That's WHY it's called an idiot light: traffic to a crawl, peope running out of gas, heater on, stereo on, lights on, alternator can't recover the loss!! And now, here we are AGAIN.
All that excessive gas tax doesn't clear the roads apparently 😂
@ 00:23 "... as you can see, absolute gridlock here" as traffic streams by in the background!
The coldest year on record, and it's only january 12th😢
Looking forward to yet more ICBC premium hikes.
I got 2 rebate cheques from ICBC last year. Plus my premiums went down too. Thanks to the NDP.
ICBC sending free money to Israel and Ukraine.
@@havoc7154WTF are you talking about?
the truth?@@SurprisinglyDeep
@@havoc7154
When has ICBC EVER sent money out of the province, much less overseas?
Keep in mind I am NOT a big fan of ICBC. I know a few years ago the executives once gave themselves disgusting overly large wages and yearly bonuses to the point the government regulators had to step in and arrest some people and force ICBC to institute both a wage cap as well as a hiring freeze (since some executives were using the excuse of "we are overseeing such a large staff" to justify their large yearly bonuses to the provincial government.)
Also I heard alot of ICBC insurance money was being used to repave roads in BC to the point it was leading to ICBC having financial instability issues, so I don't think the provincial government should have ever implemented that practice to begin with.
That being said I have never heard of ICBC "sending money to Ukraine". Granted I would not br opposed to the practice since Putin is a horrifying monster who risks starting WW3 so he and the Russian military must be stopped and Putin should be disposed.
Again though I have never heard of ICBC sending money to Ukraine. I just don't see why they would do that since a) they need to make dure they're financially stable to continue, the altruistic minded people working at ICBC can keep themselves content with the fact they provide a needed service to society and I think most executives at ICBC would rather keep more of that money for their own salaries and yearly bonuses rather then send that money to Ukraine.
here we go again.
Little bit snow which was less than 2cm and it was chaos 😂 in BC.
Live reporter standing right where cars are turning and could slide into her 😂
Gotta open an auto body shop in north van, wouldn’t be able to print the money fast enough
airport?
no snow in halifax nova scotia lol , just lot of rain instead :)
My town we get 4 feet overnight we are still expected to show up for work
Its -52 windchill here this morning and schools are open.
Justin and his team will be introducing a STORM TAX to reduce winter weather next. What would Canadians do without Justin! THRIVE!
I'm from pg but was in the worst of it here in van during it. It's definitely the packed ice that forms on the roads almost immediately that caused this mess. I was very surprised how a little snow can turn van into a ice rink. Luckily I had full winters with studs.
@0:47 lol so much for winter tyres
It was a perfect storm or bad conditions.
Fast and Furious storm.
Very little weather forecast warning
many Major Routes affected.
Storming as afternoon rush started
Vehicles with no snow tires
Driving on major hills
Lack of driving sense in bad conditions
Buses stuck in place
snow packed into ice on roads
you name you got it.
Snow tires are not required on the lower mainland
and lucky for the people good drivers aren't required either. big City folk can't drive good on a sunny day
Gee they do make good snow tires for those who experience winter as short as it is there!! As well Studded tires do provide 700% better traction then A/S tires.
As well sounds like the sanding companies are not out there doing their paid work.
So you pay higher insurance so that they can make more money!!
But but, I was told the planet is going to burst up into flames and I need to pay more in taxes to the government to stop it? Was I lied to by very greedy people?
It's climate change not global warming.
@@SurprisinglyDeep Yea…and? The government still tries to alarm us every time the weather changes in order to sell us a bogus tax.
@@SurprisinglyDeepThey used to call it global warming and people started wondering whens the "warming" part going to happen
@@robbarber7253
In some parts the world HAS warmed significantly to disturbing levels.
Like just look at the polar ice caps and all the collapsing icebergs.
Look at all the polar bears dying due to the thinning ice chunks.
Look at all the flooding in parts of Florida that never experienced that before.
Look at how India is experiencing horrific almost yearly heat waves. (Even though India was always a hot place it was never that hot before.)
Listen to farmers and other people working in agriculture in ppaces like Alberta and Northern BC discuss all the issues they're facing with drought.
Climate change means some places get colder and some places get hotter while the weather in general gets more chaotic and unstable then it was before.
@@SurprisinglyDeep Except everything you've listed is factually inaccurate. Arctic sea ice has actually increased, there has been no increase in flooding events in Florida, polar bear populations have tripled since 2005. I can tell you get your information from the mainstream media rather than research. And above everything else you've said not any of that proves that exhaust from cow farts and pickup trucks are the primary cause....
Clicked on this to see what might be in store for us here in Seattle! Hang in there Vancouver! Be safe.
😂 Keep voting democrat 😂
“dammit boggs i said shave those sideburns”
As news casters have been warningfor several days before we get this minimal snow fall and what do we have, idiots that insist on trying to drive up slippery hills.
Now if the fine for getting stuck with summer tires was increased to 1500 bucks with the proceeds going to Childrens Hospital foundation , you would have fewer idiots out there and Childrens hospital would save some money in advertising for funds!
Great idea
Lol Vancouver is special every time a dusting of snow arrives
I wonder if they will salt the roads before the morning or whether they’ll pretend they didn’t know about ice…🙄
Vancouver doesn't get much snow, so what's the worry?
1cm of snow and the whole city is shut down 😂😂😂😂😂😂
TV host is very alert and may be offensive with this potential hazard of the year.
Global warming.
Nice to see the bicycle in the middle of the snarl, great thinking
My most efficient days travelling in Vancouver snow storms have been on bicycles.
Duno why the city etc etc does not use Calcium Chloride to melt the snow and ice - It will melt snow down to at least -20 C
You know, I really enjoy getting caught up on the news in Canada. It reminds me of how screwed up all aspects of the US is.
Funny. I catch up on US politics for the exact opposite reason.
@@johnspooner1403 haha oh really?
Ya know, if the roads were made of rubber they would flex and ice would break up.
Turns out The Flintstones had it right the whole time with the wheels made of rock.
In Montreal this would be "What snow?"
Glad to see Vancouver is getting all that boiling C L I M A T E Change.
Any minute now... it's a kickin in
😮 where are the snow on the road?
wild how 66k views gets #1 on trending
Reckless driving in snowstorm, blizzard cause car crash , When I drove in provincial trunk highway car tailgate me follow to close it was Blizzard i didnt see the road
Heavy storm? Where?
It took me 4.5 hours to drive home that night…
Spinning with winter tires 🤣🤣🤣
Need to go back to the driving school.
It’s -24 here today in Kelowna, ice everywhere. No probs driving what so ever
Hot water fountains should be placed (at the road level) on the roads so as not to accumulate snow on the roads. That will be cheaper when compared to the waste of fuel at the vehicle level, human resources, etc. 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
How is that global boiling working out?
Climate change not global warming
@@SurprisinglyDeepGotta use a little more ambiguous terminology after 50 years of failed predictions 😂
Highway 1 🤔
What snow?
Gridlock. You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means.
I'll fix your title: Heavy snow reveals how terrible drivers are in Metro Vancouver
You're welcome.
Really ? Even it's Vancouver, still in Canada, you don't know how to handle snow ? and If you can see the road without cleaning up, then It is NOT a storm !
The main issue is not the small amount of snow that quickly melts, the main issue is the black ice that quickly forms. A person can drive safely slowly over snow but the same cannot be said of black ice.
Except the black ice didn't form until the next morning. That snow was dry and fluffy yet still people couldn't figure it out
@@robbarber7253
Alot of moisture in the air. The thin small snowflakes quikcly hit the ground, melted then frozen over again later but as black ice now instead of snow.
I live here in Western Canada. I wish when it snowed and we just had like 1 or 2 feet of snow (snow can at least be driven overly safely if driven over safely) or even just rain instead of what we have which is a bad combination of both.
Is Vancouver in Canada or Asia ? ridiculous
I went over a speed bump the other day which would have taken to the bottom of the batteries of those EV things. So that would have been a $60,000.00 write off of it. Or maybe it would have just burnt up??
You know why? because of those construction on the road without end. I've seen a lot and observed a lot on the road. Like a simple repair on the road, it takes forever to finish. I've been on a construction industry before and there is nothing changed to make it efficient and faster enough. Its like they using it as a milking cow from the government. Another is the stupidity of driver's. I don't know how they've got their licenses. Third, poor management and lack of anticipation of the local government. The local government is only good on imposing higher taxes, that's it!