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Title: Drive BC - Highway cams
Category: Misc CDN
Posted By: CanadianLynx
Date: 2008-12-24 13:00:30
Canadian

   

West Vancouver Police are shutting down the Upper Levels Highway between Capilano and Horseshoe Bay.

   

The highway 3 cams are from where I live (Rossland, Salmo, Castlegar.)

Gotta love the mountains!

   

Still snowing like hell in New West.

   

Turning to rain in Victoria...

Still, it'll be the first white Christmas I've seen for a long time.

   

http://www.vancouverbiz.ca/bc_traffic_cams.php

   

A word to the wise..For anyone vaguely familiar with central B.C. I checked web cams and forecasts yesterday, looked at peden hill, bednesti and they all looked pretty decent. Wx forecast was for some strong southerly winds in the PG area, but otherwise flurries and compact snow conditions on the roads. I will tell you, we got first behind a so called speed plough just east of hooterville and he was going east (as were we). As he threw snow towards the south shoulder, it billowed back behind him and onto the road creating blizzard conditions with vis down to maybe as low as 40 feet, and this was while following a goodly distance behind him. This truck was creating an extreme hazard and I finally pulled over and let someone else carry the torch. The plows speed varied between 40k and 80k and it was impossible to pass. Finally the guy pulled over after maybe 20 kliks of the nightmare conditions he was creating, I was extemely surprised that this truck did not cause a major accident. The moral of the story, don't put much stock in the drive bc cams, they only tell a small part of what may be happening. In future I will be driving these roads at night if wx conditions are bad, because there will be far fewer yrb trucks out there to cause this sort of horrendous totally uneccesary hazard. I got home at midnight after leaving pg at 7 and there was not a plough truck to be seen, driving lanes were good and I stayed at or close to the speed limit.

   

You're not from the area are you? I grew up in hooterville.

   

Well now, that would depend if we are referring to the geographic centre of the province, namely Vanderhoof.

And no, I am not from hooterville, but have lived in the vicinity for 35 years.

   

Yup that's the one.

   

Aside from my rant 5 posts back, does anyone know what the rules are for snow plow operators? Are they trained to check conditions behind them as they plow, and is it not incumbent on them to cease plowing when the wake left in their trail is 1000 times worse than if they had just stayed off the road or simply lifted the plow until conditions improved? Call me

   

I hear ya! We have a new plow company here, and they put an ad in the paper for...
truckdrivers for the winter season...

   

snowplow

splain please

   

I think they should train some of these goofs a little better, the stuff I saw yesterday was outrageously dangerous, i've been driving a long while and never seen the likes of it .

   

yup in Calgary they're over paid Union slack asses, spend half their shift in the Tim Hortons. Unlike Deerfoot Trail which the provincial Gov't took over and contracted it out to non union Carmacs. Big difference in winter maintenance compared to the rest of the city.

   

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