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"We warned at the start of ZetaTalk, in 1995, that unpredictable weather extremes, switching about from drought to deluge, would occur and increase on a lineal basis up until the pole shift. Where this occurred steadily, it has only recently become undeniable. ZetaTalk, and only ZetaTalk, warned of these weather changes, at that early date. Our early warnings spoke to the issue of global heating from the core outward, hardly Global Warming, a surface or atmospheric issue, but caused by consternation in the core. Affected by the approach of Planet X, which was by then starting to zoom rapidly toward the inner solar system for its periodic passage, the core was churning, melting the permafrost and glaciers and riling up volcanoes. When the passage did not occur as expected in 2003 because Planet X had stalled in the inner solar system, we explained the increasing weather irregularities in the context of the global wobble that had ensued - weather wobbles where the Earth is suddenly forced under air masses, churning them. This evolved by 2005 into a looping jet stream, loops breaking away and turning like a tornado to affect the air masses underneath. Meanwhile, on Planet Earth, droughts had become more intractable and deluges positively frightening, temperature swings bringing snow in summer in the tropics and searing heat in Artic regions, with the violence of storms increasing in number and ferocity."

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From the ZetaTalk Chat Q&A for February 4, 2012:

 

The wobble seems to have changed, as the temperature in Europe suddenly plunged after being like an early Spring, Alaska has its coldest temps ever while the US and much of Canada is having an extremely mild winter. India went from fatal cold spell to balmy again. Has the Earth changed position vs a vs Planet X to cause this? [and from another] Bitter cold records broken in Alaska - all time coldest record nearly broken, but Murphy's Law intervenes [Jan 30] http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/01/30/bitter-cold-records-broken-in-alaska Jim River, AK closed in on the all time record coldest temperature of -80°F set in 1971, which is not only the Alaska all-time record, but the record for the entire United States. Unfortunately, it seems the battery died in the weather station just at the critical moment. While the continental USA has a mild winter and has set a number of high temperature records in the last week and pundits ponder whether they will be blaming the dreaded "global warming" for those temperatures, Alaska and Canada have been suffering through some of the coldest temperatures on record during the last week.

There has been no change in the wobble pattern, the wobble has merely become more severe. Nancy noted a Figure 8 format when the Earth wobble first became noticeable, in early 2005, after Planet X moved into the inner solar system at the end of 2003. The Figure 8 shifted along to the east a bit on the globe between 2005 and 2009, (the last time Nancy took its measure) as Planet X came closer to the Earth, encountering the magnetic N Pole with a violent push earlier in the day. But the pattern of the Figure 8 remained essentially the same. So what changed recently that the weather patterns became noticeably different in late January, 2012?

The N Pole is pushed away when it comes over the horizon, when the noon Sun is centered over the Pacific. This regularly puts Alaska under colder air, with less sunlight, and thus the historically low temps there this January, 2012 as the wobble has gotten stronger. But by the time the Sun is positioned over India, the N Pole has swung during the Figure 8 so the globe tilts, and this tilt is visible in the weather maps from Asia. The tilt has forced the globe under the hot air closer to the Equator, warming the land along a discernable tilt demarcation line.

The next loop of the Figure 8 swings the globe so that the N Pole moves in the other direction, putting the globe again at a tilt but this time in the other direction. This tilt is discernable in weather maps of Europe, again along a diagonal line. Depending upon air pressure and temperature differences, the weather on either side of this diagonal line may be suddenly warm or suddenly cold. The tilt and diagonal line lingers to affect much of the US and Canada, but the Figure 8 changes at this point to be an up and down motion, pulling the geographic N Pole south so the US is experiencing a warmer than expected winter under a stronger Sun. Then the cycle repeats, with the magnetic N Pole of Earth pushed violently away again as the Sun is positioned over the Pacific.

 

From the ZetaTalk Chat Q&A for April 6, 2013:

 

Would the Zetas be able to let us know what is causing the early break-up of the Arctic Ice, the ice seems to have taken on a swirling pattern at the same time, would this be wobble related? [and from another] http://www.vancouversun.com/news/national/Canada+Arctic+cracks+spec... The ice in Canada’s western Arctic ripped open in a massive “fracturing event” this spring that spread like a wave across 1,000 kilometres of the Beaufort Sea. Huge leads of water – some more than 500 kilometres long and as much as 70 kilometres across – opened up from Alaska to Canada’s Arctic islands as the massive ice sheet cracked as it was pushed around by strong winds and currents. It took just seven days for the fractures to progress across the entire area from west to east. [and from another] http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80752&src=iot... A high-pressure weather system was parked over the region, producing warmer temperatures and winds that flowed in a southwesterly direction. That fueled the Beaufort Gyre, a wind-driven ocean current that flows clockwise. The gyre was the key force pulling pieces of ice west past Point Barrow, the northern nub of Alaska that protrudes into the Beaufort Sea.


The Figure 8 formed by the N Pole during the daily Earth wobble has shifted somewhat to the East, due to Planet X positioned more to the right of the Earth during its approach. This was anticipated, and well described in ZetaTalk, the Earth crowding to the left in the cup to escape the approach of Planet X, so the angle between these two planets would change slightly. This shift of the Figure 8 to the East is due to the push against the Earth’s magnetic N Pole occurring sooner each day than prior. Thus instead of occurring when the Sun is high over the Pacific, over New Zealand, it is now occurring when the Sun is high over Alaska. All the wobble points have shifted eastward accordingly.

This has brought a lingering Winter to the western US, and a changed sloshing pattern to the Arctic waters. Instead of Pacific waters being pushed through the Bering Straits into the Arctic when the polar push occurs, the wobble is swinging the Arctic to the right, and then later to the left, creating a circular motion in the waters trapped in the Arctic. Since the Earth rotates counterclockwise, the motion also takes this path. This is yet another piece of evidence that the establishment is hard pressed to explain. They are attempting to ascribe this to high pressure and wind, all of which are not new to the Arctic, but this circular early breakup of ice in the Arctic is new.

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Comment by jorge namour on February 26, 2015 at 6:50pm

NEWS:
BAD WEATHER, AND 'EMERGENCY: ITALY is crumbling

Bad weather, Italy is crumbling: unprecedented rains from north to south, two dead and it is not over ...

http://www.meteoweb.eu/2015/02/maltempo-litalia-si-sta-sgretolando-...

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Extreme bad weather throughout Italy: landslides, mudslides, floods, flooding and winds of more than 100km / h are causing death and destruction in many regions
Wednesday, February 25, 2015,

there was a danger of landslides. The tragedy and 'took place this afternoon in the place' Olmitello-Maronti in Barano d'Ischia.

For over two days the weather does not permit truce in the Centre-South. The inconveniences are considerable: tens intervention of firefighters.

Today the island of Ischia and 'cut in two by the closure of the road linking the towns of Barano and Serrara Fontana (Naples). The traffic and 'been disqualified because of falling rocks on the roadway and the landslide risk

"Eight out of 10 municipalities in Italy are at risk" reiterated Coldiretti. The tragedy of Ischia is just the latest disaster to bad weather in recent days is flailing Italy.

Last night another person died in Trapani due to the strong wind .
They are therefore already two victims of this wave of bad weather, which is not over.

Water infiltration in recent days and heavy rains today have caused the collapse in the Marche region of a part of the walls of the historic town of Belforte del Chienti (Macerata). A Fabriano firefighters rescued some people remained trapped inside their car in the railway underpass, covered by a meter of water for the heavy rains of the last hours. The wind, however, damaged the roof of the fruit and vegetable market in Pistoia. E 'was plucked up a portion of coverage. By a landslide, in the evening, and 'was closed to the transit State Road 188 to 31,200 km, in the territory of Salemi (Trapani).

The situation is especially heavy in Emilia Romagna, Marche, Campania and Sicily, but the next two days other heavy rains hit Sicily, Calabria, Puglia, Basilicata and Campania with other heavy rainfall there where this is already a record in February.

The rainfall data are impressive, from north to south, with partial annual unprecedented in the history for the first two months of the year. And the country is crumbling under the blows of hurricanes that continue to invest in the boot, even now that we are in the middle of winter and there is a lot of snow on the mountains, waiting for the spring with its rains and its warm bring other events hydrogeological when snow - exceptionally abundant this year - will melt going to swell further the waterways of the country. And fueling other hazardous events.

Alert Weather, spectacular swirl of clouds in the Sicilian Channel is the cyclone that is battering the South [VIDEO]- ITALY

http://www.meteoweb.eu/2015/02/allerta-meteo-spettacolare-vortice-n...

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E 'deep 1004hPa cyclone positioned in the Sicilian Channel that is fueling strong storm on all the regions of the South: the images from satellites are truly spectacular and show a swirl of clouds in the Channel of Sicily,

Comment by lonne rey on February 26, 2015 at 3:34pm

Thousands Displaced by Floods in Northern Bolivia

http://floodlist.com/america/thousands-displaced-by-floods-in-north...

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Flooding has forced more thousands from their homes in the department of Pando in the far north of Bolivia. Authorities say that 1,069 families have been affected.

Heavy rainfall over the last few days has forced the river Acre to overflow. In some areas it is 14 metres above normal levels. Some residents living close to the river Acre have been evacuated. Levels of the river Tahuamanu are also said to be extremely high.

Further heavy rainfall has been forecast for the next 24 hours and the situation is expected to worsen. Heavy rain is also expected in southern areas of the country.

The Latin Post reports that the mayor of San Pedro de Bolpebra said that his town had been almost completely swept away by flood waters. Quoted in The Latin Post, Mayor Romulo Terrazas said.

Comment by KM on February 26, 2015 at 2:31pm

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(MENAFN - Arab News) Health and security officials in Tabuk have been on full alert because of snowstorms in the northwestern part of the Kingdom over the past two days. The affected areas are AlDhaher Alakan Abu AlHanshan Attabaq Tinenar Wadi AlAsmar AlLawz Mountain and AlAniq.

The Saudi Red Crescent has reinforced its teams with extra officials to take care of the large numbers of people who are enjoying the snow. The Civil Defense has issued early warnings to alert people to take care and follow safety measures in such extreme weather conditions.

Khaled AlEnaizi spokesman of the Saudi Red Crescent in Tabuk said 11 teams had been assigned to parks and locations of heavy snowfalls where citizens and residents are out around the clock.

Auda AlAtawi spokesman for the health affairs in Tabuk said they were ready with rescue teams to deal with current weather conditions according to directions from the Civil Defense. He said four mobile units were ready to offer field support at any location.

He said the authorities are coordinating with the Civil Defense and the Red Crescent through the crisis and emergency center which is affiliated with the Health Ministry. Medical support is readily available if needed.

The General Traffic Directorate in Tabuk prepared field teams under the leadership of a number of officers in Alakan AlZaita and the AlLawz Mountain according to Gen. Mohammad AlBugami the traffic director. He said his directorate had implemented a traffic plan to deal with the rain and snowfall and the resulting traffic congestion.

He said the plan included assigning a number of officers and individuals and dividing them into groups to carry out traffic security tasks around the clock. He said that all necessary procedures to guarantee traffic safety for people in these areas are being taken.

Comment by Mark on February 26, 2015 at 5:48am

An Alaskan village is facing a $100m relocation as climate change robs it of its sea ice and even threatens to wash it away in just 10 years

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/climate-change-thr...

Residents of the remote Alaskan village of a Kivalina say they may be forced to relocate from their homes because of the effects of climate change.

The thinning of sea ice has meant it is not possible for the Iñupiat people of the region to hunt the bowhead whales, while the US government has warned that with less and less sea ice every year to protect the island, it could be washed away by powerful waves. Some have predicted Kivalina could be under water just 10 years from now.

“Global warming has caused us so much problems,” Joseph Swan, a Kivalina elder, told the Washington Post. “The ice does not freeze like it used to. It used to be like ten to eight feet thick, way out in the ocean.”

The issue has taken on the shape of an existential proportions, not just for the 400 or so residents Kivalina but for other similar communities in Alaska. And in the years ahead more and more coastal locations are likely to face the threat.

Comment by casey a on February 20, 2015 at 11:29pm

Hell (Florida, just kidding) is freezing over (pictures): http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Dato=20150220&...

Comment by casey a on February 19, 2015 at 7:20pm

São Paulo Is Running So Low on Water People Might Be "Warned to Flee"

São Paulo is Brazil's largest and wealthiest city, a bustling concrete jungle of 11 million people. Now imagine the city going for days without water for drinking, bathing, or cleaning—it's a dystopian scenario not far from São Paulo's reality thanks to a water crisis made worse by drought.

The terrible irony is that Brazil is actually rich in freshwater, with the Amazon and other rivers adding up to one-eight of the world's freshwater. But nearby pollution, deforestation, and a recent drought are putting strain on São Paulo's notoriously leaky municipal water system.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2015/02/10/384971276/a-historic-... Some estimates say that 40 percent of water in Brazil is lost to leaky pipes and old infrastructure.

http://www.businessinsider.com/so-paulo-drought-might-leave-million... More than 30% of all the city's water is lost in leaks or stolen away.

(Do you think the drought is also exacerbated because of pipes breaking from the South American roll? But they cant report that in its entirety..)

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/so-paulo-drought-might-leave-million...

Comment by jorge namour on February 18, 2015 at 6:23pm

Snow in Turkey: amazing lake effect

News - Published Wednesday, February 18, 2015 by The Weather Channel- LA CHAINE METEO

The Istanbul region has experienced heavy snowfall in recent hours due to "lake effect".

http://actualite.lachainemeteo.com/actualite-meteo/2015-02-18-15h04...

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Just like what is happening regularly in the United States, the coasts of Turkey were affected by a lake effect. This weather phenomenon, recurring in winter in the Great Lakes region of the United States, is triggered when very cold arctic air arrives home and passes on the lakes, where temperatures are much milder. This causes a process of strong evaporation of water, resulting in a significant condensation above the lake. This strong condensation results in the formation of convective clouds (sometimes stormy), which, carried by sustained winds, release of heavy snowfall in the wind convergence zone, while significantly impacting the region. For this to be possible, it is nevertheless necessary that the air mass is much colder than the water, and that it is not frozen. It also requires that this air mass travels a large distance above the water for condensation to occur, about 100km. In the case of Turkey, it is no of course not a lake, but the Black Sea.

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Bad weather Turkey: plane slide and stops against a pile of snow
Turkish Airlines announced it had canceled 369 flights between today and tomorrow
Wednesday, February 18, 2015,

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Blizzard paralyzes Istanbul: 800 accidents, closed the Bosphorus

The snow reached 60 centimeters in height and the poor conditions of the roads caused more than 800 accidents
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Extraordinary snowfall in Istanbul: over 50cm of accumulation in the center!

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Blizzard paralyzes Istanbul: 800 accidents, closed the Bosphorus
The snow reached 60 centimeters in height and the poor conditions of the roads caused more than 800 accidents
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Snow Istanbul8 Serious trouble in Istanbul, Turkey, because of heavy snowfall started last night. The thick blanket of snow has forced the closure for several hours Ataturk airport and drove the company Turkish Airlines, the fourth largest in the world, to cancel over 300 flights scheduled for today and tomorrow. Inconvenience for maritime traffic, as the storm caused the closure in both directions of the Bosphorus Strait. There are currently 13 ships still on the two sides of the strait waiting to transit. In some areas of the city the snow reached 60 centimeters in height and many people went to work on foot because of the poor condition of the roads, which have caused more than 800 accidents.

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Comment by Mark on February 14, 2015 at 6:36am

In the eye of a mega-drought: Researchers warn US should prepare for 'unprecedented drought conditions' unlike anything in past 1,000 years

A great swathe of the United States is gripped by the driest spell for 400 years. Now scientists have warned that much worse is to come

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/in-the-eye-of-a-me...

Chairs sit in dried and cracked earth that used to be the bottom of the Almaden Reservoir in San Jose, California

Since the turn of this century, the US south-west has spent more than a decade in drought. Last year was the warmest on record in California, which is in the middle of its driest spell for more than 400 years. But according to a new scientific study, that’s nothing compared to what comes next.

In the paper, published by the journal Science Advances, researchers from Nasa and Columbia and Cornell universities warn that a vast swathe of the US, including the south-west states and the central plains, should prepare for “unprecedented drought conditions” unlike anything in the past 1,000 years.

Within 35 years, the region’s millennia-long natural cycle of droughts and occasional rainfall is likely to bring an end to the relative dampness of the last century. The effects of that drying, the scientists warn, would be exacerbated by man-made climate change.

“Nearly every year is going to be dry toward the end of the 21st century, compared with what we think of as normal conditions now,” said Ben Cook from Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, the lead author of the study. “We’re going to have to think about a much drier future in western North America.”

The long-term dry conditions could devastate the region’s agricultural capability, decimating both crops and cattle herds, and sending some food prices sky-rocketing. It would directly affect more than 60 million people from San Diego to San Antonio and from Oakland to Omaha, who depend on increasingly scant water resources and on infrastructure designed during an abnormally moist 20th century.

Comment by KM on February 12, 2015 at 2:39am

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/brazilians-hoard-water-prepare-possible-d...

Brazilians hoard water, prepare for possible drastic rationing

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilians are hoarding water in their apartments, drilling homemade wells and taking other emergency measures to prepare for forced rationing that appears likely and could leave taps dry for up to five days a week because of a drought.

In São Paulo, the country's largest city with a metropolitan area of 20 million people, the main reservoir is at just 6 percent of capacity with the peak of the rainy season now past.

Other cities in Brazil's heavily populated southeast such as Rio de Janeiro face less dire shortages but could also see rationing.

Uncertainty over the drought and its consequences on jobs, public health and overall quality of life have further darkened Brazilians' mood at a time when the economy is struggling and President Dilma Rousseff's popularity is at an all-time low.

After January rains disappointed, and incentives to cut consumption fell short, São Paulo officials warned their next step could be to shut off customers' water supply for as many as five days a week - a measure that would likely last until the next rainy season starts in October, if not longer.

State officials say they have not yet decided whether or when to implement such rationing, in part because they are still hoping for heavy rains in February and March. Indeed, thunderstorms in recent days have caused lakes to rise a bit.

Still, independent projections suggest that São Paulo's main Cantareira reservoir could run out of water as soon as April without drastic cuts to consumption.

As such, the race is on to secure water while it lasts.

Large hospitals in São Paulo are installing in-house water treatment and recycling centers, among other measures, to make sure they can still carry out surgeries and other essential tasks if regular supply stops.

Meanwhile, companies are competing with each other to secure deliveries from large water tanker trucks, which have already become a common sight on São Paulo's gridlocked streets.

"It's like seeing 10 liters in your gas tank and knowing you won't make it to the next station," said Stefan Rohr, environmental director for industry group Ciesp in Campinas, a metropolitan area of more than 3 million people just north of São Paulo.

Many large water-intensive industries, including beverages, cellulose and steel, long ago made contingency plans to truck in water or use underground wells, which may stave off a full-fledged economic disaster.

But smaller ones, ranging from beauty salons and restaurants to car washes and light industry, may have to close or severely restrict activity.

"The economic impact will be job losses," Rohr said.

40 million could be affected

Sabesp, São Paulo's state-controlled water utility, told Reuters it did not yet know when or if rationing would begin. State Governor Geraldo Alckmin, who has also seen his popularity plummet due to the water crisis, declined requests for an interview.

A member of Rousseff's Cabinet told Reuters earlier this month on condition of anonymity that some degree of water rationing is expected in Brazil's three largest metropolitan areas - São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte, with a combined population of 40 million people.

Even without rationing, health problems are being felt.

The official number of dengue fever cases in São Paulo tripled in January from the previous year to 120. Officials blamed the rise in part on residents collecting rainwater in open buckets, which attracts mosquitoes.

Many richer Brazilians have large storage tanks built into their apartment buildings or houses which, combined with more conscious water use, may allow them to survive severe rationing without ever seeing their taps go dry.

But most working-class families can't afford such measures. Some unions are planning demonstrations for next month to protest the government's handling of the crisis and demand the poor don't bear the brunt of it.

"We will not accept paying for the government's irresponsibility with our jobs," said Adi dos Santos Lima, president of the São Paulo state branch of Brazil's largest umbrella union, the CUT.

Brazil's economy is already expected to post zero growth this year. Worse yet, since Brazil depends on hydroelectric dams for about three quarters of its electricity, power shortages are also possible due to the drought, federal officials have said.

Combined water and electricity rationing could lop an additional 0.5 percent or more off of economic growth in 2015, according to Ilan Goldfajn, chief economist at Itaú Unibanco.

Inflation, which is running above 7 percent a year, could also rise as companies face increased costs.

São Paulo's shopping centers are standing by for potential rationing and have signed contracts to truck in water as soon as needed, said Glauco Humai, who heads Brazil's mall association Abrasce.

"Our plan is not to close the malls. Obviously this will raise costs," he said.

Some local chicken processors and pasta makers will also likely raise prices for those products as a result of trucking in water, a local food workers' union said.

Even Carnival cancelled

Sírio Libanês, one of São Paulo's premier private hospitals, said it cut reliance on Sabesp from 65 percent of its water needs to 25 percent by recycling and installing its own treatment system. Another large upscale hospital, Albert Einstein, said it had increased storage capacity to last four days and would rely on trucks for emergencies.

Many neighborhoods have already experienced daily water outages as Sabesp turns down pressure in pipes to save consumption. Some residents of the Brasilândia slum said this week they were often without water 13 hours a day.

At least two towns in Minas Gerais, a massive coffee producing state adjacent to São Paulo, even canceled Carnival celebrations this month because of the lack of water.

In an upper-class neighborhood of São Paulo, a grocery delivery boy reported bringing 170 two-liter bottles of water to a single apartment over the weekend.

Ronaldo Guellen, who runs a small construction store, recently ordered 70 200-liter tanks that can be used to store water. They sold out in three days, he said, and he hasn't been able to order any more because supplies are running short.

"People are really getting scared," Guellen said.news.yaho

Comment by KM on February 11, 2015 at 1:20pm

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/kitamaat-village-eva...

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

Residents had to cut through fallen trees with chainsaws to gain road access

B.C. village evacuated after record snowfall 2:52

B.C.'s Haisla First Nation ordered the evacuation ofKitamaat Village and its 800 residents on Saturday night, three days after the community lost power following a major snowstorm.

  • Believe it or not, there's a car in there somewhere. Residents spent Saturday, Feb. 7, 2015, digging out from a record snowfall in Kitimat and Terrace.

Many residents are staying at the Kitimat Riverlodge Leisure Centre, about 15 kilometres north in the town of Kitimat.

Others are staying with family and friends.

The small towns of Kitimat and Terrace were hit with heavy snow earlier this week — nearly two metres of snow from a Pineapple Express weather system was dumped on the region.

The record for a 24-hour snowfall, set on Feb. 5, 1961, was 112 cm. Weather officials say Kitimat came close with 109 cm of snow in a 24-hour period.

Evacuation ordered over Facebook

In a notice posted to Facebook on Saturday, Haisla First Nation chief councillor Ellis Ross warned of a short timeline for the  evacuation — the road in and out of the village would be  for just three hours.

"If you have the means to get to town or somewhere else besides Kitamaat Village, please be gone before 8 a.m. PT. Anytime after 8 a.m., don't even try. The crews will be working and there will be no traffic allowed," the notice said.

Resident Robin Rowland said the evacuation was complicated by downed trees, power lines and heavy snow.

Residents had to use chainsaws to gain access to the winding road between the village and Kitimat, he said. The road was reported as barely passable due to fallen trees and snow.

Drone video of snow-bound Kitimat

More than 5,000 people in the region were left without power after the record snowfall, though many residents had their power restored within a few days.

Resident Teresa Cline says the aftermath of the snowfall is something to see:

"Just huge snow-covered trees laying on power lines," she said. "It looks like it will be a real mess to clean up. Those B.C. Hydro guys are going to be busy here. I've heard there are crews from other places that have come in to help us."

"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."

The District of Kitimat opened its Emergency Centre on Saturday to coordinate a major snow clearing effort involving municipal crews and private contractors.

Residents were being asked to stay off the roads as municipal crews cleared streets. The district warned in a statement that venturing out and getting stuck would hinder snow removal.

Search and rescue personnel in snowmobiles were placed on standby, ready to mobilize if necessary in order to access difficult-to-reach homes.

The district was also asking people to conserve water due to  which were having an impact on the town's pumping system.

 

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