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Flood season has started.
May. 4th, 2023 10:16 amWe had a cold Spring, and then this past week it has been up to at least 20 C every day.
The first reports of flooding are coming in. A trailer park on Westside Road near Vernon, and also Cache Creek.
I mean: this past week you could practically hear the leaves grow - a very soft unfolding of crumpled waxed paper. I love the particular green of the first leaves. I couldn't see any last week - now there's enough to block sunlight and views.
The flood in Vernon looks like a regular creek just chose to get to the lake by a new route - quickly. If you look at the terrain from afar, you can see that the flat fan of land poking out from the hillside into the lake was formed by water flushing debris down off the steep hill, year after year.
I'm not one to sneer at flat ground (mobility and all), but we really do need to look at where our homes are built.
The first reports of flooding are coming in. A trailer park on Westside Road near Vernon, and also Cache Creek.
I mean: this past week you could practically hear the leaves grow - a very soft unfolding of crumpled waxed paper. I love the particular green of the first leaves. I couldn't see any last week - now there's enough to block sunlight and views.
The flood in Vernon looks like a regular creek just chose to get to the lake by a new route - quickly. If you look at the terrain from afar, you can see that the flat fan of land poking out from the hillside into the lake was formed by water flushing debris down off the steep hill, year after year.
I'm not one to sneer at flat ground (mobility and all), but we really do need to look at where our homes are built.
