Disaster hits BC, Huge Detour

[@Linda2]

🐨 Good evening Jess 🦋 and Juan

[@Linda2]

49:50 The heavy white cloud in the background looks awesome

[@Linda2]

Lovely to have Jess along 😊

[@JuanRempel]

Yea, I get so bored when shes not here.

[@naujsgirl]

🦋

[@jennc743]

Fun fact...Graupel forms when supercooled water droplets freeze unto falling snowflakes. Technically not hail but some people call it snow pellets.

[@JuanRempel]

Yea, a lot of people here call it hail, but it's just the many forms of snow. The Inuit have many different words for snow, so I guess they think we are very uneducated.

[@markaoslo5653]

@Jenn C - Well hello there, Jenn! Glad to see you back! Cheers-

[@markaoslo5653]

It may not be under ideal conditions; yet it's nice to have Jess, along! Cheers-

[@JuanRempel]

Yea, a silver lining

[@markaoslo5653]

@@JuanRempel - _That one_ may be gold - ;-)

[@markaoslo5653]

❤️

[@Linda2]

It's a great surprise for you Jess 🦋. To do a bit of trucking.

[@markcantemail8018]

Juan and Jess thank You for another Video . These updates are Important to us Foreigners I live on the East Coast where Grapel is called Grapel . Yes I can look at Maps but your Drives give me a better Look at the Geography . I love your Mountains ! I have been Vancouver but it is in Wash . I will watch the Rest of the Vid After Supper , I promise . Coffee is over , I have to get out and Fix the Gutter .

[@JuanRempel]

Grapel, interesting we have a low german word for it called Grud-Ease.

[@markaoslo5653]

40:15 - Thanks @Jess, for the extra-crispy, recipe! That makes sense; I wonder if that's how KFC, does their extra-crispy? I look forward to trying that! Cheers-

[@Linda2]

5:45 on the left looks like a nasty storm.

[@markaoslo5653]

1:01:38 - According to _some_ people... cups, peanut-butter, cups (starts with "C"), that is (maybe, in the _"mini"_ variety)... 🌺 🤭 See'ya!

[@markaoslo5653]

34:30 - That's sure a picturesque, view!

[@JuanRempel]

Home sweet home

[@markaoslo5653]

@@JuanRempel - 🏡 ❤️

[@edlinke2368]

thanks for the ride along it was great

[@JuanRempel]

I need to move out of the Okanagan so i appreciate that drive more lol

[@thesnowman9474]

Started out in my old stomping grounds, Penticton, BC.

[@JuanRempel]

Home for me

[@allartvogelesang316]

If you search for "Elevations of Major Summits & Passes on B.C. Highways" there are links for some of the passes you can click on to display the elevation profile, with the grade in % along the route. I cut and pasted the table into Excel and sorted the passes in descending order by summit height, as you said you were wondering what the #3 was, after the Salmo-Creston and the Merrit-Kelowna connector. #1 1774m Hwy 3 Kootenay Pass Salmo to Creston #2 1728m Hwy 97C Pennask Summit 50 km East of Merrit #3 1643m Hwy 1 Kicking Horse Pass Yoho National Park #4 1640m Hwy 93 Vermillion Pass Kootenay National Park #5 1575m Hwy 3B Nancy Greene Summit Christina Lake to Rossland #6 1535m Hwy 3 Blueberry-Paulson Summit Christina Lake to Castlegar #7 1524m Hwy 20 Heckman Pass East of Bella Coola (Tweedsmuir Park) #8 1486m Hwy 93 Sinclair Pass East of Radium Hot Springs #9 1444m Hwy 5 Surrey Lake Summit 25 km North of Merritt #10 1358m Hwy 3 Crowsnest Pass East of Sparwood (Alberta Border) #11 1342m Hwy 3 Allison Pass Manning Provincial Park #12 1327m Hwy 1 Roger's Pass Glacier National Park #13 1311m Hwy 24 McDonald Summit West of Little Fort #14 1282m Hwy 3 Sunday Summitt East of Manning Provincial Park #15 1267m Hwy 97 Summit Pass 140 km North of Fort Nelson #16 1244m Hwy 5 Coquihalla Pass 60 km North of Hope #17 1236m Hwy 3 Anarchist Summit East of Osoyoos #18 1189m Hwy 6 Monashee Pass East of Vernon #19 1066m Hwy 16 Yellow Head Pass Mt. Robson Park #20 933m Hwy 97 Pine Pass 110 km South of Chetwynd #21 160m Hwy 16 Rainbow Summit 29 km East of Prince Rupert

[@JuanRempel]

Funny, i looked at that same list before making this video. 16th place, the most famous scary pass is only in 16th place. I've been in a snow storm on Pennask (2nd place) in July, and those poor motorcycles......

[@allartvogelesang316]

Oh, and just like what we called it when I was a kid (and I don't know why), the BC Govt. calls it the "Blueberry-Paulson", even though from the town of Blueberry Creek, you go through Castlegar to get to the pass. But I looked on Google maps with the terrain turned on, and all that I can think of is that the steep V valley that empties out at Blueberry Creek originates further up along 3.

[@jennc743]

Yeah theres been a run on TP and milk yup any dairy but there are limits per customer. Also gas is 30 liters for nonessential drivers. Traffic through Abbotsford is crazy when Hwy 1 is closed. People trying to get through town on Downes road. Highway 11 is out by Macllum road due to bridge floating up under the road and cracking open. So rush hours expext

[@jennc743]

....to sit in traffic for hours.

[@Linda2]

@@jennc743 From what I've seen on TV and UTube it is devastatingly bad. It will take a long time to recover. I live in Australia.

[@jennc743]

@@Linda2 How are you all doing after your wildfires?? Were you near any of that?

[@Linda2]

@@jennc743 Yes very close at one stage I could see flames. My friend's had ash falling in their backyard. This season so far has been wet and they have substantial floods out west. Eventually the rain runs down from QLD to South Australia. 3000 miles away, it takes time for it to get there. Thankyou for asking.

[@jennc743]

@@Linda2 Glad to hear that. Seems our weather is changing hottest summer on record and the poor town of Lytton BC mostly burned down. I have noticed the last 6 summers have been very hot. Something has changed. And your welcome hope you summer is better this time.

[@Linda2]

Interesting question. Why are we such idiots? People are always going through flooded areas, over bridges. Fool hardy and plain stupid.

[@JuanRempel]

I have a theory, we have it so easy compared to our ancestors. Our ancestors devoted most of there life devoted to survival, the industrial revolution made survival/homes/food easy, we could devote time to other things. Today, basic survival skills are just gone.

[@markaoslo5653]

@@JuanRempel - If survival skills _'aren't'_ just gone... they're certainly quite ignored, aren't they?

[@Linda2]

Panic buying. You'd think people would have extra in the pantry for emergency. Including toilet paper.

[@JuanRempel]

You would think.... but i guess we have failed to teach that skill.

[@jennc743]

...hours in traffic.

[@Linda2]

Hi Cookie 🍪 Monster 🍪 👻