Once the landslide dam bursts, it has a chance of creating a major disaster. Please see this video’s description for official evacuation and hazard maps.
The Fraser River is also an intertidal river, if this slide kicks off the worst way, all along the river systems will be, once again, flooded. I saw reports on the slide, but nothing about the geology or the previous slide risks, nor this possible flood risk. Thank you.
www.emergencyinfobc.gov.bc.ca/event/31july24a/ Flood watch was just extended as I expected to the rest of the Fraser river south of Hope BC. As a person in the lower mainland if you need to go anywhere near the Fraser check the news before you go near it. Most of the Fraser River in Metro Vancouver is at or near sea level and is the flood plain for the Fraser River. There is no garuentee the levies will hold if it goes. reposting to the pin so the watch does not get lost in the comments.
He talks mostly about things that have already happened..... how's he gonna tell you before you're f-ed. 😂 He will certainly tell us about it afterwards.
@@bradbutcher3984 Learning about things that have already happened is literally how you mitigate future risk, how you keep people safe. I hope to hell you and nobody you care about are in the way of this thing when it goes, because people are going to die. Full stop.
Great analysis. Awhile back I worked as technologist for BC GOV when there was a landslide near Tumbler Ridge in Northern BC that blocked the Murray River for a few days in 1990. Which we investigated. A large lake developed all the way back to the Murray Falls. When the river broke through the 10m of blockage there was a huge set of rapids as it eroded through the debris, with a subsequent flood downstream affecting a number of properties. This Chilcotin River blockage is more dangerous and for sure the Fraser River downstream shores are at risk. I worry about the potential for larger slides in that location following the erosion of the current slide toe and the scale of flooding that could occur after.
Especially if the tributaries also get higher volumes of rain. Add in the intertidal river basin of the Fraser and "unpredictable" is an understatement.
So you BC tech, will you now tell us residents of BC the truth about logging taking down the roots of trees that holds the banks together, and when very heavy rain, like we had 2 days before this happen, takes the land down. Huh? The same bunches of technocrat that allows loggers to get more than what the forest gives, turning this place into a wasteland?
I reside in Chilanko Forks and the slide is 600m wide and 30m deep and it is about an hours drive down river from where I live, seen the latest aerial photos and video and it looks like it is slowly eating to the left side of the slide, for the record "Nagwentled," the Tsilhqot’in (Chilcotin) name for Farwell Canyon, means "landslides across the river." this has happened before and will happen again, this area was part of the Hanceville fire complex back in 2017, over 500,000 HA of that one fire of the 3 that surrounded us that summer and this made the soil hydrophobic in which it does not absorb moisture, coupled with recent heavy rainfall mother nature does what she does, blessings to all effected 🙏 Non Ducor Duco
This reminds me of the frank slide, and the indigenous name for the mountain translating to "the mountain that moves". It's essential to rely upon indigenous knowledge, considering they've lived here for a significantly longer geologic timescale than colonization
This exact scenario happened in my town of Tbilisi, capital of Georgia back in 2015. A massive landslide occurred due to super heavy rainfall and it had blocked a small river about 15km from city center. Nobody had any idea what was happening, no warnings whatsoever. Everything happened almost instantly. 20 people lost their lives and/or went missing along with most zoo animals which also got flooded. It was a nightmare
One of my best friends lives in Lillooet, which is halfway along the proposed path of the possible flood. I've been there a couple of times on vacation, and also thought of moving there. This is terribly worrying news. At least her house is up a mountainside, but the town itself is at river level. If the "downtown" is destroyed, it'll be true devastation. Praying for everyone who lives in the area of the possible flood.
I live in upper Fraser River region and have driven Highway 1 (TransCanada), which goes through the Fraser canyon many times. This is truly a significant event that we are all watching, especially as this weekend is a holiday weekend due to the civic holiday on Monday, August 5. As you mentioned, people should NOT drive through the Fraser canyon. The discharge of the Fraser River, especially at narrow points like Hell's Gate, cannot fully be appreciated unless you check water gauge information. I have seen a bathometric scan done by a professor at Simon Fraser University and it was mindblowing. Further, my former Geology instructor noted there is faulting throughout the canyon, and reasons why rock scaling is done on a regular basis. He does not trust it's stability should "the big one" hit or even a less significant quake.
@@Abbittibbi No the lack of logging built up the deadwood created by pine beetles that foreigners brought here...... I already heard the Jasper Parks planner explain everything, including the fact that is a fire-based ecosystem. NATURE. The natives knew it long before any of us got here and they did their own controlled burnings and took care of the forest, as critters like FOLIAGE, NOT DEAD TREES. Your enviro-campaigns caused this DIRECTLY.
Yes, I'm worried that I will be washed away off the hillside here on Central Vancouver Island. Not going to let any of those Vancouverite Refugees land ashore here though. What a bunch of drivel.
The only way you would hear about this on the CBC is if a native community is at risk; then it will be national news highlighting how global warming caused by the White man is hurting indigenous populations in Western Canada. Seriously - no joking.
I live downstream on the Fraser, in Vancouver. This has been on CBC Radio Canada all day. They're warning Hope residents, the first major population center that will be hit, to be ready to evacuate. It's expected the water will take 10 to 12 hours to reach Hope. I'm another 60 miles downstream and will definitely go check out the river if the dam bursts.
It would be great if we ##EDIT## I see that I accidentally submitted this comment when it was unfinished. I think that I thought that it would be cool if we could use drones to watch the water burst the dam, and then watch the destruction unfold, and also explore both dry river beds. I know that there are valuables and interesting formations. The Fraser is super deep.
I am so freaking hoping somebody sets up a camera there to watch it. I feel like there has to be some either geology professors or maybe amateur geologists near there that would want to study the collapse enough to set up camera. I sure hope so anyway, because I would really love to see just how it gives way.
This is in line of my house. If the water is not released slowly soon we will be in way bigger trouble than when the Abbotsford pumps failed. There are far too many important things in the path of destruction to lose all at once and that includes but is not limited to the CN and CP railways, bridges, HWY 1, High tension powerline supports and the live lines. And you better believe that the damage of a sudden collapse of that natural dam will reach into the lower Fraser. And that's just from debris. The rush of water if it strikes at high slack tide will break things in Vancouver. For reference I am a geology student, and have been studying nothing but landslides for the past year.
My guess is they want to encourage more people to participate in working to buy a house and pay taxes to build all this stuff rather than face the question what happens if it all gets wiped away by nature.
@@normansawatzky4778 Indoctrination like calling it an "Act of God" or "God's Will" and "God works in mysterious ways" and "It's all part of God's plan" and asking people to pray for the affected?
Great video and informative commentary. A layman’s consideration of the current Chilcotin River disaster… News of the massive landslide at the Farwell Canyon on the Chilcotin River is now beginning to sink in. The debris field is described as 30m deep and 600m long causing the river to back up behind the collapse resulting in the riven to cease flowing downstream from the slide. I read that the flow of the Chilcotin River was previously measured at 200 cubic meters per second which, over the course of 24 hours is 17,280,000 cubic meters of water backing up into what is now an upstream lake 6 km long. It seems to me that such a backup is unsustainable and one of for things can happen: 1) The backup will suddenly overflow the blockage and make a path downstream. 2) The backup will overwhelm the blockage and suddenly burst through it. 3) The backup will begin to cut a path through the blockage and cut a quick and ever-enlarging swath downstream. 4) A controlled (extremely tall order) release of the backup through the blockage. One thing is for certain, time is of the essence and every moment that elapses will see an extraordinary increase in the volume of the backup. I have been following official government reports and information is becoming more available but is subject to very controlled messaging. I am sure there is a flurry of activity as officials, geotechnical and other engineering specialties, etc. technically assessing the situation and considering what possible action may be undertaken. I pray I am wrong, but regardless of what actions occur, I think the Province should brace itself for a catastrophic result with tremendous ecological consequences. At some point, all that backup and accumulated debris will make its way downstream to the Fraser River to Hope and then through the Fraser Valley to the Gulf of Georgia. Emergency Info BC: www.emergencyinfobc.gov.bc.ca/event/31july24a/
First time I've seen you cover something that is while not my backyard. But fairly close. What a lot of folks are forgetting, that the Fraser Canyon doesn't end in Hope. It carries on into two major metro areas. The Fraser Valley and Metro Vancouver. Total population; Three Million.
@@AlligatorSoup That sub is a mess and has been. I ignored it when I heard about it till I got home then read more into it and saw the flow rate drop below the block and was going "oh shit this could be unstateably bad". Watches now run down to the coast. I am guessing they ran the numbers on the levies and are less sure it will hold than they were before.
hopefully it'll let go early, before it gets too dangerous and before it affects the salmon. i don't think they start running for another couple of months.
Thanks to one of the tow operator shows that air in the US on "The Weather Channel" (Highway Through Hell), over the last decade its viewers have come to appreciate the people in the Frasier valley. Definitely, the show has gotten more people than you would ever think to know something about places like Spuzzum, Hope, Abbottsford, and Chilliwack. I hope the tow operators and truckers (some of which have bounced between both jobs) of the valley are able to get their families and equipment to a safe height, because they will be sorely needed once the floodwaters pass - and some of them are dangerously close to the water and almost lost their businesses in the floods a few years ago that wrecked the "Coq" highway and the canyon highway. Not to mention that the potential deluge might be high enough to destroy tens of kilometers of the rail line linking Vancouver to the rest of the country.
Also, I have sent an email to Governor Inslee asking him to start helping prep the paperwork to get people, equipment, and materials up there to help out. Washington State probably can't do anything to help our Canadian neighbors prior to the flood, but we CAN help them rebuild afterward. A lot of folks from around the whole world reached out to my home state after the disastrous Oso landslide, and I think it's only right for us to reach out today to help those in the Chilcotin River Valley just to our north.
My major concern would be the resulting flooding taking out Highway 97. This causes SEVERE repercussions for areas north of the washout. We are presently already suffering fuel shortages due to Highway 16 being closed due to the Jasper fires, but this has a real potential to jack some stuff up. Thanks for taking note of us lowly northern Canadians, the news often glazes our stories over, but not only do you cover the Nazko cone, but you also give us short-lead-time news videos on what is actually almost feeling like a side-story among the forest fire headlines. It's slowly getting traction due to the severity level creeping higher and higher, Also. God damn. This area is known for good panning. I can only IMAGINE what that riverbed be like.
Highway 97 doesn’t go anywhere near the Fraser River downstream of this landslide location so it’ll be ok. The only places where the highway is near the Fraser are between Prince George & Williams Lake; all of which is upstream from where the Chilcotin meets the Fraser.
Highway 97 is well east of the Fraser River until Williams Lake and that is well upstream rom where the Chilcotin enters the Fraser. the first major issue downstream will be the town of Lillooet and the bridge across the Fraser for Highway 99.Further downstream there could be washouts in the Fraser Canyon which could damage Highway 1 and the CN and CP mainlines.
I'm with the heavy rain fall finally tipping the balance...I live in Japan and there are frequent landslides connected to heavy rain...the trees burning down and exposing the soil is definitely a contribution.... cheers to you Mr G 🤟✨
I'm only 3-4 hours away! How crazy it is going to be when that lets go! If I knew a safe spot to watch what a sound and show that is going to be! 10 years ago just 1/4 mile from my home a culvert in a 50' ravine got blocked by debris. We were having record rain fall in a 48 hr period. I drove over this section of the road and water had completely filled the ravine and had started running over the road. I got home and didn't think twice about it and not 5 minutes after I got home I heard what sounded like a freight train across the street! Mind you this was about a 1/4 mile away from me! The road completely washed out and everything in the ravine was washed about a 1/2 mile out into the bay. Few days later I walked out on the beach on low tide and found chunks of asphalt and debris 100+ feet out on the beach. This washout was tiny compared to what is going to happen when this lets go! I'll tell you, there was nothing left in that ravine. It looked like a D9 dozer went through there. Trees and all gone, just rock and dirt left.
Someone needs to set up a remote controlled camera on high ground overlooking the downstream section of the landslide. It has the potential to be both life saving and epic footage!
This sucks for the folks downstream but if there is a bright side, this is going to teach us so much about the Scabland megaflood 16,000 years ago. I can't wait to see the drone footage when the dam blows a gasket.
@@davidcooke8005 the Fraser has had some historical glacial outburst floods of it's own, evidence is only recently coming to light after extensive LiDAR surveys. There's some good SFU lectures about it available free online.
I don't think that 'brightside' is the best term. We live in a time where technology affords us the great ability to learn despite the devastation that will result. I hope they have the area 'instrumented to the nines' so we can learn more than we knew before and limit the damage.
Eh, it won't teach that much about the megafloods. Different geology, and different rocks, and it's not even within several orders of magnitude in scale. But it will be interesting to learn about regardless.
This is a fantastic explanation as to the landslide on the Chilcotin River! It’s the first time I have seen the showing of the whole area of instability and previous collapses. Excellent!
I live on the Fraser. High enough but man we have been hit. The lower Fraser had bad flooding a few years ago and Lytton was destroyed by fire and still not rebuilt for those people.
@@newcoyote - The heatwave that year at Lytton was absolutely insane for that far north. Would have been an extremely hot day in Phoenix, Arizona. 49.4 C as I recall ... crazy. Was a hair under 47C down here in Portland that summer. Nuts.
Is there any possibility of doing a controlled release of the water, as there was after a landslide blocked the Madison River in Montana after the Hebgen Lake Earthquake in 1959?
Unfortunately no, access is difficult at best, slopes are unstable, and the amount of moisture in the ground, under unstable slopes make it unpredictable.
That was my thought as well. I guess I'd blast a small channel and let the force of water take care of the rest. That might be dangerous but waiting for the blockage to give is dangerous. Dunno.
What are you talking about? Oh, what? You think this has something to do with human activity and climate activist garbage. Mountains have slides, always have, always will. Forests have fires, the eco system actually depends on fires, always have, always will. The west coast rain forest climatic zone, gets rain, heavy rain at times. Nothing new here and these things are only a matter of time and their nothing compared to what the earth can do and will do during this magnetic excursion event, another natural cycle. By the way, Voltaire was right when he said, "anything to stupid to be said is sung". Why would anyone ever listen to a musician or a so called celebrity. Court jesters, court fools, all of them.
Thank you for this report!! We have a long weekend this weekend in BC and lots of people are going camping up in Hope and along logging roads. Will definitely send this to my friends
Had not heard of this , there are so many diasters in Canada right now, but this is big. Have now found the alerts, evacuations etc. Thanks for the big heads up.
@@nanabuster7285 Yes he is. I'm in AB and I haven't seen him yet. Our media freaked everyone out about Muslims for 15 years straight, up until Justin Trudeau started saying, "Islamophobia." Our media is getting to be just as bad as the states.
His description states he graduated from Arizona State University and he seems to be still operating from Arizona. I am grateful for his scientific discipline.
Awesome job on the video, you presented alot of good information about this whole situation. The whole mainstream media is not capable of doing anything like this😂😂
In 1959 a similar event happened here in Montana downstream of Hebgen Lake. We call it Quake Lake. They moved equipment in to stabilize the debris blocking the canyon, to slow down the erosion of the slide material. Eventually the water will erode the rock, but with no sudden collapse. I would assume that something similar can be done for this slide as well.
I live less than an hour from this site. Thank you for covering this with your fact based style that you do so well. Some more information for those who are curious. The Chilcotin river is running at 200 cubic meters of water per second. For scale that is 7000 baskets balls per second of water that is currently being blocked up.
Thankfully there is very little development anywhere within 50 metres elevation of the Chilcotin or Fraser River downstream until you reach Hope. I will be watching this very closely. I work for a company that has major pipeline infrastructure that crosses the Fraser River further downstream.
Something similar happened when an earthquake caused a hillside west of Yellowstone NP. The same situation, with water pooling behind the landslide, had to be dealt with by carving a spillway in the landslide debris so that the water could drain much slower than if it pushed its way through the debris field.
I was just wondering if it might be possible to create an overspill channel, or in some way release water in a controlled way. But location & terrain wouldn’t allow heavy machinery: perhaps small explosives delivered by drones?
It's purely a coincidence, but the YVO folks talked about the Hebgen Lake 'quake and formation of 'quake lake in their Biscuit Basin report today. ruclips.net/video/BmSLYwwhMeU/видео.html
What you can hope for is that the rock holds long enough for the water to breach over it and then start eroding it away. Yes it will erode quickly but will still be much more manageable that it completely failing.
@@interstellarsurfer a complete failure all at once would be significantly worse than the water overtopping and eroding it away. Not much I agree but still releases less water gradually vs a wall of water. Edit: just seen exactly how much rock choked off this river. It was way more than I expected. This will be bad no matter how it plays out
@@lukedawg2787 The dam is 600-800m wide and 30m deep. I doubt there is much they can do at the risk of it going while heavy equipment gets into it to burst it.
i have lived in that area and there is no way i would chance that. the rivers there are not for the uneducated or inexperience even with out a major slide like that.
Agreed, thanks to his calm, informed and measured approach, he has made us all aware of what's at stake. May we wish safety to everyone involved, and stay the bloody hell away. We have to let nature run it's course on this one.
Something very similar happened 65 years ago in Montana, on the Madison River just west of Yellowstone Park, forming Quake Lake. This was managed in such a way that a channel was cut and there was NOT a catastrophic flood when the river reached it's pool level. There were no major erosion events and streamflow was controlled downstream. Learn from history and your neighbors to the south.
I drove by there yesterday via Williams lake. The chilcotin will surge soon , she’s legendary. That entire area was wiped out with fires the rain doesn’t get absorbed.
Thanks for supplying accurate information on these events. This province is beautiful with many extreme landscapes but with that come natural events which can have catastrophic effects on infrastructure and people
Insightful video, Thank you as someone from BC I found this to be the most informative piece of information yet about it entirely and its potential affects. I wonder if on top of what was stated in the video, as either the straw that broke the camel's back or another event that just sped up the inevitable but if the 4.7 earthquake off the Alaskan Panhandle about 290 km from Whitehorse, Yukon, at around 1:20 a.m. on July 31st had any causation on it as well. According to the man rescued he says he was awoken some time around midnight on july 31 to the slide overtaking his camp. Albeit the earthquake did happened 2000+ KM from the location of the slide, the timing to me seems closer to causation than just coincidence. And to add a question to anyone reading this what are the implications beyond Hope,Bc; lower mainland along the Fraser River to the salish sea, the Salish sea coastline itself? How will this affect the salmon run?
This reminds me a lot of the Oso landslide further south. Although it did not result in a massive flood, although that might be because it was actively managed.
I am on the Fraser. However, I live high above. I deliberately chose a home high and away from the river. I have a good view from my front deck. This is scary nature. Take heed of evacuation warnings. Please be safe folks.
Not many people live immediately down stream of the slide on either the Chilcotin or the Fraser. Lilloette is many miles downstream and should have several hours evacuation notice.
Dig a ditch that's small and let it start cutting a path. Continue to maintain the drainage path to begin to equalize the inflow to the temporary lake behind the dam and the flow of the out-letting water. Get it going before the rains come.
@@wakcackle3555 I'm not there either and I'm no expert. But I fear that the terrain is very unstable and heavy machinery may lead to unpredictable ground movement. Secondly I wonder if a ditch is opened and water is on its way machinery could be removed quickly enough to not being swept away. But, as already mentioned , I'm no expert. Wish I could offer a solution.... Any how: Sincere wishes for anyone affected (and hopefully not afflicted)
@@renater.540 Plus, there's elevation changes along the way. Not knowing anything about that, any water flows would need to be received and slowed by ponds of near standing water on the way. I'm sure there are other problems that we know nothing of. I hope damage can be mitigated, and hopfully avoided.
Thank you Timothy. As someone with family in the area, this is concerning news. I have been watching this slide since it happened, from afar of course. Best wishes for you!
Have been listening to news reports for last 48 hours on this landslide. This is the clearest, most concise and informative report I have come across. I have just subscribed . Hoping that somehow, disaster will be minimized, but respecting the opinion here and knowing that something has got to give, and soon! 😮
it NEEDS to be emphasized more in mainstream media the domino effect that is wildfires. they need to be more than one off reports and actually educate the public. i wish the absolute best for everyone affected and potentially affected. stay safe out there.
When my family toured through southern B.C. in 1970, the Hope slide (significantly larger than this one) was still fresh enough that the road crossing the slide was temporary construction. That area seems to be prone to slides and temporary dam formation and this has been known for more than half a century. Why does the province continue to allow people to build and live in this area?
Climate change is just climate. The more you feed David Suzuki by the BILLIONS, the worse the "climate change" gets. They are having people go around starting wildfires and you think it's because of the very thing you breathe out every breath... EDIT: Also, this is a fire-based ecosystem--something the media is too stupid to cover.
Never thought I would hear anybody outside of rural BC ever talk about the Chilcotin River, but kinda wild to think I touched the river less than a month ago in a place where it is currently dry. What an unexpected event for a usually quiet part of BC.
impossible... the river is rising by 15m per day, the landslide is almost 200 feet tall. By day 3 or 4 it will crest the height of the landslide. It will carve its own path through the landslide and a wall of water 200 feet high will funnel through a 20m wide river bed....
Haha. I live in BC and was looking for an update on youtube and you were number 1. Great coverage. I've seen lots of your vids before from all over the world and love them. Thanks
Thank you for making this video! I live in the same province as this and was reading about it today. Your explanation really helped show the severity of the issue.
What makes you think that The Animal's don't receive warnings? They are Mother Nature's first born. They are more connected to GOD than humans will ever be.
After the fires a few years ago, and combined with the dry weather for a few weeks, then like 10 days of rain. There was evidence something like this could happen eventually. But I don't think anyone was expecting that big of a land slide
Once the landslide dam bursts, it has a chance of creating a major disaster. Please see this video’s description for official evacuation and hazard maps.
Please fix the sound it’s almost impossible to listen to .. Thanks..
It sounds normal?
The Fraser River is also an intertidal river, if this slide kicks off the worst way, all along the river systems will be, once again, flooded. I saw reports on the slide, but nothing about the geology or the previous slide risks, nor this possible flood risk.
Thank you.
www.emergencyinfobc.gov.bc.ca/event/31july24a/
Flood watch was just extended as I expected to the rest of the Fraser river south of Hope BC. As a person in the lower mainland if you need to go anywhere near the Fraser check the news before you go near it. Most of the Fraser River in Metro Vancouver is at or near sea level and is the flood plain for the Fraser River. There is no garuentee the levies will hold if it goes.
reposting to the pin so the watch does not get lost in the comments.
When that mess breaks loose? Wow the video will get 10-billion views!! (thankx-professor)
THIS is the man I trust when I need to evacuate. When he says "s**ts gone bad" I trust his judgement.
He talks mostly about things that have already happened..... how's he gonna tell you before you're f-ed. 😂 He will certainly tell us about it afterwards.
Same
There was at least one man who didn't move out of the region when they knew Mt. Helens volcano was going to erupt.
@@bradbutcher3984 Learning about things that have already happened is literally how you mitigate future risk, how you keep people safe.
I hope to hell you and nobody you care about are in the way of this thing when it goes, because people are going to die. Full stop.
Same here! If I see or read something I find him.
I also tell.people to look him up.
On behalf of all Canadians, thanks for covering this significant event.
❤😢
On behalf of the planet earth and the long-term survival of most species: Ha ha!
Huh? News occurs in Canadia? Who knew
Lol!
@@patrickglaser1560 Yeah it really doesn't. Sometimes a dog takes a poop. And every now and then the wind blows.
@@thechrisandphaedrusshow And once every 10 years they find a mass grave of indigenous kids by an old schoolhouse!
I appreciate your serious but measured and non-hysterical presentation of various geologic hazards.
I myself got a Bonner as well . 😊.. thought I was the only 😊🎉
WHAT? The shit is gonna hit the fan at any hour, day or night.
@@lotharschiese8559 That is what the media want you to feel ever since 9/11. Stop giving in to fear...
Must be time for dramatic Silki to pop up!
Easy to understand when thought has gone into a script.
Great analysis. Awhile back I worked as technologist for BC GOV when there was a landslide near Tumbler Ridge in Northern BC that blocked the Murray River for a few days in 1990. Which we investigated. A large lake developed all the way back to the Murray Falls. When the river broke through the 10m of blockage there was a huge set of rapids as it eroded through the debris, with a subsequent flood downstream affecting a number of properties. This Chilcotin River blockage is more dangerous and for sure the Fraser River downstream shores are at risk. I worry about the potential for larger slides in that location following the erosion of the current slide toe and the scale of flooding that could occur after.
Especially if the tributaries also get higher volumes of rain.
Add in the intertidal river basin of the Fraser and "unpredictable" is an understatement.
I was working at the mine at the time!
@@thomasharper4166 hopefully you weren't out at the dump that failed Golder had geotech drills operating there
Yes how is the liberals going to blame this on climate change due to Canadians driving to work everyday
So you BC tech, will you now tell us residents of BC the truth about logging taking down the roots of trees that holds the banks together, and when very heavy rain, like we had 2 days before this happen, takes the land down. Huh? The same bunches of technocrat that allows loggers to get more than what the forest gives, turning this place into a wasteland?
I reside in Chilanko Forks and the slide is 600m wide and 30m deep and it is about an hours drive down river from where I live, seen the latest aerial photos and video and it looks like it is slowly eating to the left side of the slide,
for the record "Nagwentled," the Tsilhqot’in (Chilcotin) name for Farwell Canyon, means "landslides across the river."
this has happened before and will happen again, this area was part of the Hanceville fire complex back in 2017, over 500,000 HA of that one fire of the 3 that surrounded us that summer and this made the soil hydrophobic in which it does not absorb moisture, coupled with recent heavy rainfall mother nature does what she does,
blessings to all effected
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Non Ducor Duco
This feels like a _very_ pertinent example as to why we should pay at least some attention to geomythology
@@StuffandThings_ **Geology. It's not a myth...
Thank you for the information. Especially the hydrophobic part. Didn't know that.
This reminds me of the frank slide, and the indigenous name for the mountain translating to "the mountain that moves". It's essential to rely upon indigenous knowledge, considering they've lived here for a significantly longer geologic timescale than colonization
@@Jleslie2011What knowledge of geology do "indigenous" have that "colonizers" dont have?
This exact scenario happened in my town of Tbilisi, capital of Georgia back in 2015. A massive landslide occurred due to super heavy rainfall and it had blocked a small river about 15km from city center. Nobody had any idea what was happening, no warnings whatsoever. Everything happened almost instantly. 20 people lost their lives and/or went missing along with most zoo animals which also got flooded. It was a nightmare
One of my best friends lives in Lillooet, which is halfway along the proposed path of the possible flood. I've been there a couple of times on vacation, and also thought of moving there. This is terribly worrying news. At least her house is up a mountainside, but the town itself is at river level. If the "downtown" is destroyed, it'll be true devastation. Praying for everyone who lives in the area of the possible flood.
I know I friend who lives in Kamaloops.
The Lillooet townsite is nowhere near the river level.
I live in upper Fraser River region and have driven Highway 1 (TransCanada), which goes through the Fraser canyon many times.
This is truly a significant event that we are all watching, especially as this weekend is a holiday weekend due to the civic holiday on Monday, August 5.
As you mentioned, people should NOT drive through the Fraser canyon.
The discharge of the Fraser River, especially at narrow points like Hell's Gate, cannot fully be appreciated unless you check water gauge information. I have seen a bathometric scan done by a professor at Simon Fraser University and it was mindblowing.
Further, my former Geology instructor noted there is faulting throughout the canyon, and reasons why rock scaling is done on a regular basis. He does not trust it's stability should "the big one" hit or even a less significant quake.
A truly under estimated area with a scale so enormous that like the Grand Canyon or Yosemite is difficult to quantify.
Stay safe everyone! Watching from Newfoundland!
The temptation to dig gravel to pan later is strong
A lot of prospectors make videos up that way.
Dan Hurd will be there, after the fact.
The flood will sort everything out for you.
@@ThatOpalGuyDan the Man
@@ThatOpalGuyI think one of his claims is on the Chilcotin, isn’t it?
AS a BC resident thank you for following this. :)
Your title is significantly more informative then cbc, city news, etc.
Your video is even more informative.
Thank you
Mother Nature has her own schedule. Stay safe Canadian neighbors.
Thank you. 🇨🇦 ❤ 🇺🇲
Not mother nature, logging did that...
People stink in Canada.. that's what my papaw told me.. 😮
@@Abbittibbi No the lack of logging built up the deadwood created by pine beetles that foreigners brought here...... I already heard the Jasper Parks planner explain everything, including the fact that is a fire-based ecosystem. NATURE. The natives knew it long before any of us got here and they did their own controlled burnings and took care of the forest, as critters like FOLIAGE, NOT DEAD TREES.
Your enviro-campaigns caused this DIRECTLY.
@@richardthetroll6758 People stink everywhere. Your pawpaw tree works for CNN :P
As someone living just 9000 kilometers away i appreciate this video about our local struggles
Stay safe!
You never know.😂
@@billboyd03Yes I do, it's impossible that this happen to my river. If our dam broke it would be pretty cool though.
Yes, I'm worried that I will be washed away off the hillside here on Central Vancouver Island. Not going to let any of those Vancouverite Refugees land ashore here though.
What a bunch of drivel.
Amazingly dramatic situation. Your non-hyped delivery gives the evacuation order more credibility. Thank you.
The only way you would hear about this on the CBC is if a native community is at risk; then it will be national news highlighting how global warming caused by the White man is hurting indigenous populations in Western Canada. Seriously - no joking.
I live downstream on the Fraser, in Vancouver. This has been on CBC Radio Canada all day. They're warning Hope residents, the first major population center that will be hit, to be ready to evacuate. It's expected the water will take 10 to 12 hours to reach Hope. I'm another 60 miles downstream and will definitely go check out the river if the dam bursts.
I hope someone sets up a camera at the dam and the slide and downstream to catch all of this. That would be so cool.
Not so cool if you have a riverside property
It would be great if we
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I see that I accidentally submitted this comment when it was unfinished. I think that I thought that it would be cool if we could use drones to watch the water burst the dam, and then watch the destruction unfold, and also explore both dry river beds.
I know that there are valuables and interesting formations. The Fraser is super deep.
@@JLFinnie123 If your stuff is going to get destroyed anyway, you might as well get some vids out of it.
I am so freaking hoping somebody sets up a camera there to watch it. I feel like there has to be some either geology professors or maybe amateur geologists near there that would want to study the collapse enough to set up camera. I sure hope so anyway, because I would really love to see just how it gives way.
Puny humans always worried about their crap.
This is in line of my house. If the water is not released slowly soon we will be in way bigger trouble than when the Abbotsford pumps failed.
There are far too many important things in the path of destruction to lose all at once and that includes but is not limited to the CN and CP railways, bridges, HWY 1, High tension powerline supports and the live lines.
And you better believe that the damage of a sudden collapse of that natural dam will reach into the lower Fraser. And that's just from debris. The rush of water if it strikes at high slack tide will break things in Vancouver.
For reference I am a geology student, and have been studying nothing but landslides for the past year.
Take care. Safety is first.
My graduate class on Climate Policy just covered that lake/mudslide in Peru in 1942. I was shocked. Why isn’t that taught in all high schools?
@@schoolingdiana9086...because the powers at be don't really care about education. They are more concerned with indoctrination...savvy?
My guess is they want to encourage more people to participate in working to buy a house and pay taxes to build all this stuff rather than face the question what happens if it all gets wiped away by nature.
@@normansawatzky4778 Indoctrination like calling it an "Act of God" or "God's Will" and "God works in mysterious ways" and "It's all part of God's plan" and asking people to pray for the affected?
Great video and informative commentary.
A layman’s consideration of the current Chilcotin River disaster…
News of the massive landslide at the Farwell Canyon on the Chilcotin River is now beginning to sink in. The debris field is described as 30m deep and 600m long causing the river to back up behind the collapse resulting in the riven to cease flowing downstream from the slide.
I read that the flow of the Chilcotin River was previously measured at 200 cubic meters per second which, over the course of 24 hours is 17,280,000 cubic meters of water backing up into what is now an upstream lake 6 km long.
It seems to me that such a backup is unsustainable and one of for things can happen:
1) The backup will suddenly overflow the blockage and make a path downstream.
2) The backup will overwhelm the blockage and suddenly burst through it.
3) The backup will begin to cut a path through the blockage and cut a quick and ever-enlarging swath downstream.
4) A controlled (extremely tall order) release of the backup through the blockage.
One thing is for certain, time is of the essence and every moment that elapses will see an extraordinary increase in the volume of the backup.
I have been following official government reports and information is becoming more available but is subject to very controlled messaging. I am sure there is a flurry of activity as officials, geotechnical and other engineering specialties, etc. technically assessing the situation and considering what possible action may be undertaken.
I pray I am wrong, but regardless of what actions occur, I think the Province should brace itself for a catastrophic result with tremendous ecological consequences. At some point, all that backup and accumulated debris will make its way downstream to the Fraser River to Hope and then through the Fraser Valley to the Gulf of Georgia.
Emergency Info BC:
www.emergencyinfobc.gov.bc.ca/event/31july24a/
The Frazier River does run into Vancouver. Thanks for sharing this news. Would never had heard about it otherwise .
*Fraser
@@sharroon7574I clicked on your reply hoping against hope that it was someone correcting the spelling…😂
Word Police , be careful of your speling
@@johnmarino2583 Yes we shall stuff your fungers in de typewriter and start tapping away to jou learn em. =p
@@johnmarino2583 Named after Simon Fraser the great North West Company explorer. Have some respect.
First time I've seen you cover something that is while not my backyard. But fairly close. What a lot of folks are forgetting, that the Fraser Canyon doesn't end in Hope. It carries on into two major metro areas. The Fraser Valley and Metro Vancouver. Total population; Three Million.
The Fraser River is also an intertidal river, if this goes wrong at high tide, won't be good. 😖
Tell that to the stupid Reddit Vancouver mods who deleted the post this morning telling of this event.
@@AlligatorSoup That sub is a mess and has been. I ignored it when I heard about it till I got home then read more into it and saw the flow rate drop below the block and was going "oh shit this could be unstateably bad". Watches now run down to the coast. I am guessing they ran the numbers on the levies and are less sure it will hold than they were before.
Hope is a key location because the narrow river really widens out. That will squelch the surge downstream of Hope.
This is nuts. Not just for the people affected but this could really mess with this year's salmon run.
This salmon run was hit hard by the slide in the Frazer 4 years ago. They were hoping for it to rebound this year.
hopefully it'll let go early, before it gets too dangerous and before it affects the salmon. i don't think they start running for another couple of months.
When do the fingerlings fun down to the ocean? And there are several species of salmon which run at different times.
They should mine the pebbles and get something out of it as the salmon are toast
I live in BC & I have to say you have produced the best explanation for the situation, keep it up!
Thanks to one of the tow operator shows that air in the US on "The Weather Channel" (Highway Through Hell), over the last decade its viewers have come to appreciate the people in the Frasier valley. Definitely, the show has gotten more people than you would ever think to know something about places like Spuzzum, Hope, Abbottsford, and Chilliwack. I hope the tow operators and truckers (some of which have bounced between both jobs) of the valley are able to get their families and equipment to a safe height, because they will be sorely needed once the floodwaters pass - and some of them are dangerously close to the water and almost lost their businesses in the floods a few years ago that wrecked the "Coq" highway and the canyon highway. Not to mention that the potential deluge might be high enough to destroy tens of kilometers of the rail line linking Vancouver to the rest of the country.
Also, I have sent an email to Governor Inslee asking him to start helping prep the paperwork to get people, equipment, and materials up there to help out. Washington State probably can't do anything to help our Canadian neighbors prior to the flood, but we CAN help them rebuild afterward. A lot of folks from around the whole world reached out to my home state after the disastrous Oso landslide, and I think it's only right for us to reach out today to help those in the Chilcotin River Valley just to our north.
Thanks as always, Geology Hub. My goodness! To everyone near the river, and especially downstream of it, *evacuate* ! Don't be stubborn!
You mean not to stupid! Eh?
My major concern would be the resulting flooding taking out Highway 97. This causes SEVERE repercussions for areas north of the washout. We are presently already suffering fuel shortages due to Highway 16 being closed due to the Jasper fires, but this has a real potential to jack some stuff up.
Thanks for taking note of us lowly northern Canadians, the news often glazes our stories over, but not only do you cover the Nazko cone, but you also give us short-lead-time news videos on what is actually almost feeling like a side-story among the forest fire headlines. It's slowly getting traction due to the severity level creeping higher and higher,
Also. God damn. This area is known for good panning. I can only IMAGINE what that riverbed be like.
Panning was my 6th thought, should create some opportunities later on for sure. Be safe and be prepared.
Highway 97 doesn’t go anywhere near the Fraser River downstream of this landslide location so it’ll be ok. The only places where the highway is near the Fraser are between Prince George & Williams Lake; all of which is upstream from where the Chilcotin meets the Fraser.
Highway 97 is well east of the Fraser River until Williams Lake and that is well upstream rom where the Chilcotin enters the Fraser. the first major issue downstream will be the town of Lillooet and the bridge across the Fraser for Highway 99.Further downstream there could be washouts in the Fraser Canyon which could damage Highway 1 and the CN and CP mainlines.
Not a time to be damning God.
Just Sayin
There is no fuel shortage at all the Jasper fires did not impact this.
I'm with the heavy rain fall finally tipping the balance...I live in Japan and there are frequent landslides connected to heavy rain...the trees burning down and exposing the soil is definitely a contribution.... cheers to you Mr G 🤟✨
@@DaisyDay.-pm2cf exactly, good memory... especially the southern region ‼️
I'm only 3-4 hours away! How crazy it is going to be when that lets go! If I knew a safe spot to watch what a sound and show that is going to be!
10 years ago just 1/4 mile from my home a culvert in a 50' ravine got blocked by debris. We were having record rain fall in a 48 hr period. I drove over this section of the road and water had completely filled the ravine and had started running over the road. I got home and didn't think twice about it and not 5 minutes after I got home I heard what sounded like a freight train across the street! Mind you this was about a 1/4 mile away from me! The road completely washed out and everything in the ravine was washed about a 1/2 mile out into the bay. Few days later I walked out on the beach on low tide and found chunks of asphalt and debris 100+ feet out on the beach.
This washout was tiny compared to what is going to happen when this lets go! I'll tell you, there was nothing left in that ravine. It looked like a D9 dozer went through there. Trees and all gone, just rock and dirt left.
Hydraulic mining?
I was thinking the same thing about a safe place to watch, maybe a helicopter 🚁
Someone needs to set up a remote controlled camera on high ground overlooking the downstream section of the landslide. It has the potential to be both life saving and epic footage!
On a gimble as the ground is gonna shake when that lets loose
Never underestimate the power of Mother Nature
OMG, someone better get the flood on camera!
As someone who lives in the Lower Mainland, I thank you for this analysis of what has happened, and what could still happen.
This sucks for the folks downstream but if there is a bright side, this is going to teach us so much about the Scabland megaflood 16,000 years ago. I can't wait to see the drone footage when the dam blows a gasket.
@@davidcooke8005 the Fraser has had some historical glacial outburst floods of it's own, evidence is only recently coming to light after extensive LiDAR surveys. There's some good SFU lectures about it available free online.
Landsat datasets will be great too, as we see the recovery over the next few decades
I don't think that 'brightside' is the best term. We live in a time where technology affords us the great ability to learn despite the devastation that will result. I hope they have the area 'instrumented to the nines' so we can learn more than we knew before and limit the damage.
Eh, it won't teach that much about the megafloods. Different geology, and different rocks, and it's not even within several orders of magnitude in scale. But it will be interesting to learn about regardless.
Thank you for posting about this GH! This could be pretty bad for the communities downstream…. Scary!
Well, didn't have this on my bingo card for today.
At the rate of strange thinks keep happening I’ll never win a bingo round.
🤣👍
Fill your pockets with Bingo Dabbers. They'll help you float and the helicopters can see the bright dye in the water.
This is a fantastic explanation as to the landslide on the Chilcotin River! It’s the first time I have seen the showing of the whole area of instability and previous collapses.
Excellent!
Praying that the people and their animals in that area will be kept safe as they evacuate in a timely and orderly fashion.
Praying dont do anything
I live on the Fraser. High enough but man we have been hit. The lower Fraser had bad flooding a few years ago and Lytton was destroyed by fire and still not rebuilt for those people.
@@newcoyote - The heatwave that year at Lytton was absolutely insane for that far north. Would have been an extremely hot day in Phoenix, Arizona. 49.4 C as I recall ... crazy.
Was a hair under 47C down here in Portland that summer. Nuts.
@@cacogenicist The weather in the PNW has been all kinds of wacky the past decade or so... people forget how climatically unstable this region can get
@@cacogenicist 49.6/121.3F I was in Lytton when it was going up in flames. I just happened to be there. I have dashcam video.
Damn imagine waking up one morning and your local river is just completely dry!
Salmon mommas gonna have to relocate 😢
Tomorrow is not promised.
Alarming, I hope everyone will be safe. Thanks for the clear explanation.
Is there any possibility of doing a controlled release of the water, as there was after a landslide blocked the Madison River in Montana after the Hebgen Lake Earthquake in 1959?
Unfortunately no, access is difficult at best, slopes are unstable, and the amount of moisture in the ground, under unstable slopes make it unpredictable.
Isn’t the most likely outcome that the landslide blockage erodes away gradually rather than suddenly?
@@swainschepsOnce the water finds a trickle route through the blockage, the material is eroded very quickly.
That was my thought as well. I guess I'd blast a small channel and let the force of water take care of the rest. That might be dangerous but waiting for the blockage to give is dangerous.
Dunno.
Drones delivering a succession of small explosive charges?
There was more information presented here than there was on the news last night. Thank you. Your hard work and dedication are greatly appreciated.
Stevie Nicks tried to warn us, we just didn't listen long enough...
Mirror in the sky what is love,can the child within my heart rise above....
ever heard of Pangea?
What are you talking about? Oh, what? You think this has something to do with human activity and climate activist garbage. Mountains have slides, always have, always will. Forests have fires, the eco system actually depends on fires, always have, always will. The west coast rain forest climatic zone, gets rain, heavy rain at times. Nothing new here and these things are only a matter of time and their nothing compared to what the earth can do and will do during this magnetic excursion event, another natural cycle. By the way, Voltaire was right when he said, "anything to stupid to be said is sung". Why would anyone ever listen to a musician or a so called celebrity. Court jesters, court fools, all of them.
I took my love, I took it down.
Landslide made a levee, When the Levee Breaks...
Thank you for this report!! We have a long weekend this weekend in BC and lots of people are going camping up in Hope and along logging roads. Will definitely send this to my friends
Had not heard of this , there are so many diasters in Canada right now, but this is big. Have now found the alerts, evacuations etc. Thanks for the big heads up.
I love the calm reporting about this scary event. I can tell this is Canadian news, and not US media. May all be safe.
You can’t believe a thing coming from Canadian mainstream news. This guy must be an independent.
@@nanabuster7285 Yes he is. I'm in AB and I haven't seen him yet. Our media freaked everyone out about Muslims for 15 years straight, up until Justin Trudeau started saying, "Islamophobia." Our media is getting to be just as bad as the states.
hah I promise official canadian news is just as fear mongering as the us, all they spoke about today was the US
His description states he graduated from Arizona State University and he seems to be still operating from Arizona. I am grateful for his scientific discipline.
Awesome job on the video, you presented alot of good information about this whole situation. The whole mainstream media is not capable of doing anything like this😂😂
In 1959 a similar event happened here in Montana downstream of Hebgen Lake. We call it Quake Lake. They moved equipment in to stabilize the debris blocking the canyon, to slow down the erosion of the slide material. Eventually the water will erode the rock, but with no sudden collapse. I would assume that something similar can be done for this slide as well.
I live less than an hour from this site. Thank you for covering this with your fact based style that you do so well.
Some more information for those who are curious.
The Chilcotin river is running at 200 cubic meters of water per second. For scale that is 7000 baskets balls per second of water that is currently being blocked up.
Haha hey bud go to bed😝
Do take care. I am far downstream.
The video from this deluge is going to be epic and we'll learn much from it, hopefully there aren't any casualties!
May everyone be safe! Thank you GH for covering this!
Thankfully there is very little development anywhere within 50 metres elevation of the Chilcotin or Fraser River downstream until you reach Hope. I will be watching this very closely. I work for a company that has major pipeline infrastructure that crosses the Fraser River further downstream.
Something similar happened when an earthquake caused a hillside west of Yellowstone NP. The same situation, with water pooling behind the landslide, had to be dealt with by carving a spillway in the landslide debris so that the water could drain much slower than if it pushed its way through the debris field.
I was just wondering if it might be possible to create an overspill channel, or in some way release water in a controlled way. But location & terrain wouldn’t allow heavy machinery: perhaps small explosives delivered by drones?
It's purely a coincidence, but the YVO folks talked about the Hebgen Lake 'quake and formation of 'quake lake in their Biscuit Basin report today.
ruclips.net/video/BmSLYwwhMeU/видео.html
@@lindaj5492Would explosives set off a further slide since that whole mountain side is unstable?
That dry river is full of GOLD
What you can hope for is that the rock holds long enough for the water to breach over it and then start eroding it away. Yes it will erode quickly but will still be much more manageable that it completely failing.
Overtopping is traditionally how dams fail. It doesn't make anything any better.
@@interstellarsurfer a complete failure all at once would be significantly worse than the water overtopping and eroding it away. Not much I agree but still releases less water gradually vs a wall of water.
Edit: just seen exactly how much rock choked off this river. It was way more than I expected. This will be bad no matter how it plays out
@@lukedawg2787 The dam is 600-800m wide and 30m deep. I doubt there is much they can do at the risk of it going while heavy equipment gets into it to burst it.
i have lived in that area and there is no way i would chance that. the rivers there are not for the uneducated or inexperience even with out a major slide like that.
Great video, thank you. I hope no more people are injured.
This channel has the best detailed information on the topic that I’ve seen.
If this guy says don't go there, do not bloody go there.
Agreed, thanks to his calm, informed and measured approach, he has made us all aware of what's at stake. May we wish safety to everyone involved, and stay the bloody hell away. We have to let nature run it's course on this one.
I truly hope there’s no loss of life. I also hope they get cameras on this dam asap for when it bursts…
Thanks for covering this situation. Dealing with one aspect of it at work.
This is the most information I’ve been able to find. Thanks
Something very similar happened 65 years ago in Montana, on the Madison River just west of Yellowstone Park, forming Quake Lake. This was managed in such a way that a channel was cut and there was NOT a catastrophic flood when the river reached it's pool level. There were no major erosion events and streamflow was controlled downstream. Learn from history and your neighbors to the south.
That's presuming the mass holds for 3+ weeks. Not sure that fits the timeline for this river.
Thanks a lot for this fast and detailed analysis. It is the best that I can find.
Just watched a video of a helicopter flying down the river, and it is a MUST SEE to grasp the magnitude! The size of that land slide is IMMENCE!
Immense. Sorry, do you not have spell check?
@@heidimueller1039 Sorry, do you not have anything better to do than troll RUclips comments looking for grammar and spelling errors?
I drove by there yesterday via Williams lake. The chilcotin will surge soon , she’s legendary. That entire area was wiped out with fires the rain doesn’t get absorbed.
Thanks for supplying accurate information on these events. This province is beautiful with many extreme landscapes but with that come natural events which can have catastrophic effects on infrastructure and people
Insightful video, Thank you as someone from BC I found this to be the most informative piece of information yet about it entirely and its potential affects.
I wonder if on top of what was stated in the video, as either the straw that broke the camel's back or another event that just sped up the inevitable but if the 4.7 earthquake off the Alaskan Panhandle about 290 km from Whitehorse, Yukon, at around 1:20 a.m. on July 31st had any causation on it as well. According to the man rescued he says he was awoken some time around midnight on july 31 to the slide overtaking his camp.
Albeit the earthquake did happened 2000+ KM from the location of the slide, the timing to me seems closer to causation than just coincidence.
And to add a question to anyone reading this what are the implications beyond Hope,Bc; lower mainland along the Fraser River to the salish sea, the Salish sea coastline itself? How will this affect the salmon run?
This reminds me a lot of the Oso landslide further south. Although it did not result in a massive flood, although that might be because it was actively managed.
I am on the Fraser. However, I live high above. I deliberately chose a home high and away from the river. I have a good view from my front deck. This is scary nature. Take heed of evacuation warnings. Please be safe folks.
Not many people live immediately down stream of the slide on either the Chilcotin or the Fraser. Lilloette is many miles downstream and should have several hours evacuation notice.
Okay: but what’s their evacuation route? Do roads run along the valley floor? Imagine being stuck in evacuation traffic jam…
@@lindaj5492 yep, most all of BC, roads run along valley floors -- it's about the only place there is to put roads.
@@lindaj5492 With enough warning, Highway 99 can get everyone out of Lillooet in time. Place north of Lillooet should be evacuating now.
Thank you, I hadn’t heard of this yet. It sounds like it will have quite an impact.
Dig a ditch that's small and let it start cutting a path. Continue to maintain the drainage path to begin to equalize the inflow to the temporary lake behind the dam and the flow of the out-letting water. Get it going before the rains come.
Dangerous job. Who should be doing this? You??
@@renater.540 I'm not there, but a small effort could save a great deal of problems.
I don't know if machinery can be gotten there. What is your idea?
@@wakcackle3555 I'm not there either and I'm no expert. But I fear that the terrain is very unstable and heavy machinery may lead to unpredictable ground movement.
Secondly I wonder if a ditch is opened and water is on its way machinery could be removed quickly enough to not being swept away. But, as already mentioned , I'm no expert. Wish I could offer a solution....
Any how: Sincere wishes for anyone affected (and hopefully not afflicted)
@@renater.540 Plus, there's elevation changes along the way. Not knowing anything about that, any water flows would need to be received and slowed by ponds of near standing water on the way.
I'm sure there are other problems that we know nothing of. I hope damage can be mitigated, and hopfully avoided.
@@wakcackle3555 So do I
Thank you Timothy. As someone with family in the area, this is concerning news. I have been watching this slide since it happened, from afar of course. Best wishes for you!
Thanks for all the hard work on these videos!
Thanks GH. Looking forward for an update on this situation. ❤
I'd evacuate, no doubt.
Have been listening to news reports for last 48 hours on this landslide.
This is the clearest, most concise and informative report I have come across.
I have just subscribed .
Hoping that somehow, disaster will be minimized, but respecting the opinion here and knowing that something has got to give, and soon! 😮
From British Columbia, Thank you
it NEEDS to be emphasized more in mainstream media the domino effect that is wildfires. they need to be more than one off reports and actually educate the public. i wish the absolute best for everyone affected and potentially affected. stay safe out there.
Great video. Thanks for sharing
When my family toured through southern B.C. in 1970, the Hope slide (significantly larger than this one) was still fresh enough that the road crossing the slide was temporary construction. That area seems to be prone to slides and temporary dam formation and this has been known for more than half a century. Why does the province continue to allow people to build and live in this area?
I never thought about climate change and wildfires being possibly related to increased risk of wildfires until now, great observation and explanation
Climate change is just climate. The more you feed David Suzuki by the BILLIONS, the worse the "climate change" gets. They are having people go around starting wildfires and you think it's because of the very thing you breathe out every breath...
EDIT: Also, this is a fire-based ecosystem--something the media is too stupid to cover.
Never thought I would hear anybody outside of rural BC ever talk about the Chilcotin River, but kinda wild to think I touched the river less than a month ago in a place where it is currently dry. What an unexpected event for a usually quiet part of BC.
Is a controlled excavation possible?
It is, but there are few access roads for much of the area, including logging roads.
@@ninemoonplanet Is it possible for a helicopter to carry in excavators?
impossible... the river is rising by 15m per day, the landslide is almost 200 feet tall. By day 3 or 4 it will crest the height of the landslide. It will carve its own path through the landslide and a wall of water 200 feet high will funnel through a 20m wide river bed....
Haha. I live in BC and was looking for an update on youtube and you were number 1. Great coverage. I've seen lots of your vids before from all over the world and love them. Thanks
DO NOT LISTEN TO SOCIAL MEDIA, IF THE GOVERNMENT SAYS EVACUATE, EVACUATE!
And you took the Jab to .
@@Bobbycat115 Canada had Lower covid death rates than the USA because Canadians are more vaccinated than in the USA.
Bad news but great information. This channel is top notch, Thanks again
I saw a whole bunch of beavers running away from this and laughing their asses off.
Somebody said God Dammit so He did.
You did a good job! Explaining the slide. God Bless Canada!🇨🇦
Figures this would happen just before the major Fraser River salmon runs
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Thank you for making this video! I live in the same province as this and was reading about it today. Your explanation really helped show the severity of the issue.
Prayers be with humanity and all those animals in that area ❤
Amen
Wow, immensely informative and deep history. Geology is fascinating, and i thank you for this channel btw
Get out now.
This is both fascinating and horrifying. Good luck to those who live in the affected areas. 🍀
Thank you
It's good that people have some warnings, I feel bad for the animals that don't 😢
What makes you think that The Animal's don't receive warnings? They are Mother Nature's first born. They are more connected to GOD than humans will ever be.
After the fires a few years ago, and combined with the dry weather for a few weeks, then like 10 days of rain. There was evidence something like this could happen eventually.
But I don't think anyone was expecting that big of a land slide
Is the Fraser is lower than usual? Gold rush on. Then, after the flood...Gold Rush II.