Canada – Kitamaat Village evacuated after 3 days without power due to record snowfall

Also see video. In places that haven’t been plowed, it must be at least five or six feet deep, and the snow banks are up to 10 to 12 feet tall.

8 Feb 2015 – B.C.’s Haisla First Nation ordered the evacuation of Kitamaat Village and its 800 residents on Saturday night, three days after the community lost power following a major snowstorm.

The small towns of Kitimat and Terrace were hit with record snowfall earlier this week — nearly two metres of snow from a Pineapple Express weather system was dumped on the region. The former record for a 24-hour snowfall, set on Feb. 5, 1961, was 112 cm.

(That record was for 24 hours. Kitimat received an incredible 168 cm (66.1 inches) in just two days.)

Video of a construction camp site digging out

“Just huge snow-covered trees laying on power lines,” said resident Teresa Cline. “Places that haven’t been plowed, it must be at least five or six feet deep, and the snow banks are up to 10 to 12 feet tall after they’ve been plowed.”

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/kitamaat-village-evacuated-after-3-days-without-power-due-to-record-snowfall-1.2949616

Thanks to BR Berener for this link

News and photos of the aftermath of record snow in B.C.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/terrace-kitimat-experience-record-breaking-snowfall-1.2948934

http://globalnews.ca/news/1816369/photos-terrace-and-kitimat-hit-by-huge-snowfall-more-to-come/

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/record-breaking-snowfall-buries-parts-of-northern-bc/45055/

Thanks to Terry Homeniuk for these links