christ

as if the morning wasn't shitty enough

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My thoughts exactly. I guess no one wanted to pay overtime for city crews? Hahaha...

I was going eastbound and that was a shit show too.

kenginston?

I saw 5 plows going westbound and 2 police vehicles holding back traffic.

Apparently it's some crazy guy with a machete

Was driving by 29th Station about to drop my wife off when we heard the gunshot. Decided to go to McDonald's instead.

Road conditions in that area are brutal - the worst I can remember in Vancouver. Kingsway is packed ice as 41st. There was a 41 bus that had slid backwards into a light standard and stacks of buses just stuck everywhere on 41.

Folks in All-Season tires are such idiots.

Yup

Police incident shuts down SkyTrain's 29th Avenue Station | Daily Hive Vancouver

A bit more info on the story

stay home if you can today. don't risk it. roads conditions are hazardous with buses and cars sideways in most streets.

I thought to myself when i woke up this morning "I got snow tires and I live right off of kingsway, what can possibly go wrong"

Everything

Was a shit storm this morning. Drove by ppl waiting for buses that were never going to show up, skytrain platform was packed, and buses and cars stuck everywhere. Traffic was so slow I took the side streets instead. I guess everyone thinks they can get by with all seasons tires, and assumed roads would be plowed and salted. I guess they were wrong.

Wow after reading all this shit, seriously glad I have mondays off. Would not have wanted to be stuck in the skytrain shit show.

Police shot someone at 29th station...causing huge delays. Also I heard there some downed trees on tracks? Why haven't all trees near tracks been cut down?

listening to the radio right now. someone called in about the morons who still insist on trying boundary road and hastings st.. caller basically pulled up a lawn chair in the front yard with some hot chocolate to watch the inevitable dogpile...

:suspicious:

Anyone know what it's like on the other side of the Massey tunnel, Twassassen?

17 and 99 were half cleared this morning, I have snow tires on my LS400, but could feel the slight loss of traction from the slush. Where it was pissing rain was nice and normal though.

this is cambie...pure ice


Sorry about the rotated pic, posting using my phone

East Van was a gongshow this morning... left from NV to go to the airport at about 7:40AM. All was good until Rupert St, and that's where it began. The traffic was starting to stop, the traffic lights were out at Broadway, so we took 8th to Renfrew... saw all the buses stuck on that tiny hill on Broadway. Got down to almost Grandview Hwy, suddenly the train crossing closed the gates... nothing was coming. Cut across to Rona and the tracks were stil open LOL. Probably some ice hit a switch or something. It was a total mess until we reached about 41st Ave. Everything north of that is just ice and snow and all season tires

The first white Christmas that we have at home in awhile and I get to spend it in Toronto LOL

I'm hoping this warm spell and rain, melts all the ice and we get a fresh dump of snow for Christmas. It's been a while.

Environment Canada weather forecast:

It looks like a wet Christmas, not a white Christmas, this year.

FeelsBadMan

Today Showers ending this morning then mainly cloudy. Wind southeast 40 to 60 km/h becoming northwest 30 this morning. High plus 5.
Tonight Cloudy. Showers beginning early this evening. Becoming windy this evening. Low plus 3.
Tue, 20 Dec Showers ending in the morning then a mix of sun and cloud. Wind southeast 30 km/h becoming west 50 gusting to 70 in the morning. High 7.
Night Cloudy with 70 percent chance of showers. Low plus 4.
Wed, 21 Dec Periods of rain. High 7.
Night Rain. Low plus 5.
Thu, 22 Dec Cloudy with 70 percent chance of showers. High 7.
Night Cloudy with 60 percent chance of showers. Low plus 1.
Fri, 23 Dec Cloudy with 60 percent chance of showers. High 6.
Night Cloudy with 60 percent chance of rain showers or flurries. Low plus 1.
Sat, 24 Dec Periods of rain. High plus 5.
Night Cloudy with 70 percent chance of rain showers or flurries. Low plus 1.
Sun, 25 Dec Periods of rain. High plus 5

WTF?!

Anyone else feel like Translink themselves are one of the worst offenders for causing problems?

I mean I saw like a dozen busses all mangled or stuck all over the road. Like fuck, you'd think they of all people would have their shit together.

They would have been better off just saying; "fuck it, we can't provide service today", rather than the dog shit gong show they supplied transit users with.

I can't be the only one who would be getting the fuck away from there if the police had their guns drawn... right? What causes people to hang around situations like that?