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The 2021 Pacific Northwest floods were a series of floods that affected British Columbia, Canada, and parts of neighboring Washington state in the United States. The flooding and numerous mass wasting events were caused by a Pineapple Express, a type of atmospheric river, which brought heavy rain to parts of southern British Columbia and northwestern United States.
The 2024 British Columbia floods were a series of floods, debris flows, and mudslides caused by an atmospheric river that struck Southwestern British Columbia from October 18 to October 20, 2024. Four people were killed during the event, two in the Lower Mainland and two on Vancouver Island .
Big Bend is flat and to the north borders the more rugged South Slope neighbourhood of Burnaby. Due to its unique geography and proximity to the Fraser River it remains a flood risk; in December 2014, 100 millimeters of rain flooded parts of Big Bend, although the City of Burnaby's dike system and other anti-flood measures mitigated the damage.
A historic storm that produced epic amounts of rainfall triggered devastating, widespread flooding across portions of the northwestern United States and British Columbia, Canada, last week. The ...
Now a new threat from the storm has arrived Wednesday as the bomb cyclone’s winds wind down: It’s combining with an atmospheric river to unleash life-threatening flooding rainfall over parts ...
Heavy rain in Metro Vancouver caused flash flooding in South and East Vancouver, as well as Burnaby. Several buildings were slightly damaged, and many cars were submerged. The SkyTrain line between Sapperton station and Scott Road station were temporarily suspended due to flooding. [3] Several roads in Burnaby were closed. [4]
Still Creek is the main stream draining the western half of the Brunette watershed. As such, it has many tributaries. The following are the most significant: Chubb Creek - Shortened by development, Chubb Creek currently begins at the Lougheed Highway, just east of Boundary Road in Burnaby, and runs southeast, under Gilmore at Gilmore Station, and enters Still Creek underground a couple of ...
An old Burnaby Lake beaver with a limp Mallard duck nesting in the park. Burnaby Lake hosts over 400 varieties of plant, bird, fish, mammal, reptile and amphibian species. [4] An exceptionally wide variety of birds frequent the area, including great blue herons, bald eagles, osprey, and the green heron. [2] Black bears once were common in the ...