Avalanche* in Stewart, BC
Nov 10th, 2007 by Neena
*According to the good people of Stewart, BC, the damage is the result of excessive snow-load, not avalanche. (Map this!)
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Avalanche! Click on the picture for a close up of the destruction |
At the End of a Long Drive
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We didn't make the decision, the decision made us. On October 20th, 2007, we left our comfortable city of San Francisco to follow a simple algorithm - go North till the road ends then turn around and then go as far South. In between those two points was the stage, the timeline, the space, where we made things happen and things happened to us.
The past is fleeting and the stories, the sights and the feelings are perishable. One sees what one wants to see, and perhaps we are not capable of more. We saw that people are kind and helpful even if they were not materially rich. Some we could understand even though we didn't speak the same language, the motivations of others were incomprehensible even though we did. In the end fragments remain - the smell of roasting chocolate, a flock of snow Ptarmigians on snow, the creaking of the rainforest, the rough feathers of penguins, and the intoxication of Curanto.
So these are our stories. Every time you visit the site you will see a random post below. Each starts with Lo que pasa es que...
Nice little “fixer upper” house there. Would sell for $800K in San Francisco! 😉
At least the view is great!
i live a block away from where that pic was taken. it was snowfall and not an avalanche that crushed that shed. we recieved 33 ft of snow winter 06-07 in stewart bc
Dave,
I told Neena that it was excessive snowfall that caused the collapse but she never lets the facts get in the way of a good story! I’m glad that the self-policing of facts on the internet is working!
This isn’t a picture of avalanche damage but it is a picture of winter 2006/2007 snow-load damage. We had about 32 feet of snow that winter. There hasn’t been building damage caused by avalanches in the years that I have lived in Stewart.
Umm Yeah That Is A Pic Taken After 35 Feet Of Snow Had Melted!