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Originally Posted by Fuzz
https://www.theprogress.com/communit...in-chilliwack/
More pics at the link.
Interestingly this story discusses an 1894 flood and mentions the Mission gauge reading of 25.75 feet, which is 7.84m. I took a look, and the peak was ~5.5m earlier today. Now, I know you can in no way directly compare them, given all the development now, river changes etc. But it's certainly possible that was a bigger event. In 1948 it was said to be measured at 7.6m(though it doesn't specifically say the Mission gauge.)
https://wateroffice.ec.gc.ca/report/...ml?stn=08MH024
Anyway, always find it interesting to look at the historical context of these events, and how little we learn. Presumably we've just decided to accept these things occasionally. |
But that's unfortunately how we are. I took University classes (quite a few years back, unfortunately) where we would discuss and agree that things like building on the floodplain was foolish and we should stop. And what's happened since? Well, we continue right along doing dumb things.