part is keeping up the sense of urgency and motivation . You provided some motivation, thanks again.
Your right it is an amazing time to be alive. Vicky said:
I am lucky in that we started a farm before I learned of ZT. I say we, but DH came along kicking and groaning almost the whole time, he was a city kid and I was country. I've been spinning wool into yarn and making cloth and knitting and crocheting for years. I have my sheep and goats and chickens and a huge garden and started learning to seed save a few years ago. I've made many batches of soap, make several kinds of cheese, learned how to store food, learned to brain tan hides, learned to build, searched out ways to make shelters without the use of nails or screws, how to use & make herbal remedys, how to forage, first aid & emergency medicine, how to find water, how to distill water, how to douse, found a shortwave radio and books on how to use it, how to fish, smoke meat and so much more.
I've been following ZT since the GLP days before the Ning, and everything has unfolded in due time as they predicted. I am not sure we will be ready or even make it thru the PS, but since I live in a hilly area there are plenty of places to lay low when the hour of the shift occurs and the winds howl. I've finally convinced my DH that this is happening and we are continuing to learn more about how to do for ourselves. Our plan is to buy some containers, place in a hill side and cover with dirt then fill them with supplies and tools. then when the time comes fell some trees in the gully behind the house, cover them with tarps and dirt and take as many animals as we can and secur them under the logs, then secur ourselves.
Our family isn't on board yet but we still hope the children will come around in time and have included plans for many people to join us, hoping the in-laws will come too. We even got an Alaskan sawmill in case there are any trees worth saving and turning into usable lumber...we are learning about wood gas now.
I am thankful that running the farm keeps me very busy so I don't have too much time to dwell on what might be and can instead concentrate on the tasks at hand. We have reached out to extended family and neighbors and think we just might be in a good area for community to come together and help each other, so maybe moving isn't necessary – though if we had the money we would move to a safer location; but it doesn't seem to be possible right now as we are living like everyone else is from paycheck to paycheck. We make do, search for tools at garage sales, and learn everything we can about how to survive well.
I used to dream of running a fiber arts school, in my mind I still see a large building with lots of tools to help make things out of fiber and wool, with fields of sheep and goats, huge gardens of food and flowers and herbs, a wood shop and a huge barn with lots of hay put up for winter, a cheese cave and root cellars, and lots of people coming and going- perhaps it will be a reality after the shift and I can help teach everyone how to do these things and keep the knowledge alive.
And then perhaps I won't make it - I keep remembering something someone said once about surviving - the holocaust saw many survivors, but who would want to live with those psychological scars & memories? To merely survive isn't always a good thing - as ZT points out many will be insane as they won't be able to adjust to the changes. I'm not sure I want to just merely survive, and I don't want to survive alone, I would rather take my chances with my family than move out into nowhere and have no one. I'm a social creature and need community.
How am I doing? As several have mentioned - some days are better than others. Some days I think why bother with all this as it won't survive anyway, I should just get a back pack and a sturdy pair of boots, a hatchet and knife with some flint and some fish hooks and hope for the best but expect the worst.
Then I have days like today - I'm OK today and tomorrow will take care of itself. Through all of this I am amazed at the awesome power of nature, whether it's a baby goat being born or a rip in the earth 5 miles long - this is an amazing time to be alive!
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ed seed and agrichemical giant. Its share price has plunged 25 percent since the spring. Market prices for corn and soybeans are in the dumps, meaning Monsanto's main customers—farmers who specialize in those crops—have less money to spend on its pricey seeds and flagship herbicide (which recently got named a "probable carcinogen" by the World Health organization, spurring lawsuits).
Monsanto's CEO hinted that the company may be too invested in high-tech seeds, and underinvested in old-fashioned pesticides.
Monsanto's long, noisy attempt to buy up rival pesticide giant Syngenta crumbled into dust last month. And Wednesday, Monsanto reported quarterly revenues and profits that sharply underperformed Wall Street expectations. For good measure, it also sharply lowered its profit projections for the year ahead.
In response to these unhappy trends, the company announced it was slashing 2,600 jobs, 12 percent of its workforce, and spending $3 billion to buy back shares. Share buybacks are a form of financial (as opposed to genetic) engineering—they magically boost a company's earnings-per-share ratio (a metric closely watched by investors) simply by removing shares from the market. And buybacks divert money from things like R&D—or keeping a company's workforce whole—and into the pockets of shareholders.
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In a conference call with investors (transcript), Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant put a positive spin on the company's prospects. "Our germplasm performance has never been better, our trait technology has continued to leap and our market position and pipeline remains strong," he declared. But later, he hit upon a theme that became obvious when Monsanto was stalking Syngenta: that Monsanto's leadership feels the company is too invested in high-tech seeds, and underinvested in old-fashioned pesticides. (The market for Syngenta owns the globe's leading position.)
In the call, Jeff Zekauskas, an analyst with JP MorganChase, asked Grant whether Monsanto was still interested in boosting its pesticide portfolio by buying a competitor. Grant's answer was essentially yes: "We still believe in the opportunity of integrated solutions," i.e., selling more pesticides along with seeds. He added:
We've got a 400 million acre seed technology footprint. We've seen time and time again that we can increase revenue and improve grower service by bringing chemistry up on that footprint.
Translation: Our patented seeds and traits are sown on 400 million acres worldwide (about four times the size of California), and if we could sell more pesticides (chemistry) to the people who farm those acres, we could make more money. Later, he noted:
We continue to see duplication in R&D in the sector. We continue to see the low effectiveness of R&D with some of our competitors and we continue to think that consolidation in this space is inevitable.
Translation: Research-and-development investments in the ag-biotech/agrichemical sector aren't paying off—not enough blockbuster new products—so the few companies remaining in the field (there are six) are going to start swallowing each other up.
Massive layoffs, share buybacks, dreams of buying up the pesticide portfolios of competitors—these aren't characteristics of a company confident in the long-term profitability of its core technology: the genetic modification of crops.…
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While President-elect Donald Trump pledged in his victory speech to “come together as one united people,” a top House Republican said Wednesday he will continue to investigate Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server as secretary of state.
Jason Chaffetz, the Utah congressman finishing his first term leading the powerful House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, made it clear the partisan bitterness that marked the presidential campaign is not going to go away.
“It would be totally remiss of us to dismiss [the email investigation] because she’s not going to be president,” Chaffetz said of the defeated Democratic nominee.
“I still have a duty and obligation to get to the truth about one of the largest breaches of security at the State Department,” he said. “Tens of thousands of documents still have not been turned over to Congress.”
Last week, senior Republican lawmakers were openly discussing the prospect of impeaching Clinton for setting up a private email server for official State Department business, even though the FBI concluded after two investigations that she should not be criminally prosecuted.
Impeachment, of course, was a GOP dream if Clinton won.
[Donald Trump could actually take steps to try and jail Hillary Clinton]
But Chaffetz said he has a “duty” to find thousands of Clinton’s communications that have not been made public to determine if they contain classified information. He also said some State Department employees who helped set up the email server in her New York home could lose their security clearances.
Chaffetz said his committee will probably call State Department employees to do transcribed interviews with lawmakers, and may hold hearings.
[House Republicans are already preparing for ‘years’ of Clinton investigations.]
“Do I anticipate calling Hillary Clinton to testify?” he said. “No.” But other State Department staff could be dragged, again, into an investigation that to many seemed closed.
Democrats said it’s time to put the email controversy to rest: Clinton lost.
“It is extremely disappointing that Chairman Chaffetz plans to continue investigating Secretary Clinton for years to come,” Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the Oversight Committee’s top Democrat, said in a statement.
“After everything our country has just been through—and particularly given that Donald Trump and Paul Ryan have both called for healing our nation’s divisions—I think the American people deserve more from Congress than to continue squandering taxpayer dollars on these baseless Republican accusations and partisan attacks.”
During its investigation, the FBI recovered thousands of emails the agency believed Clinton had not turned over to the State Department but which were work-related. Judicial Watch, a conservative legal group, has filed dozens of civil open-records lawsuits against the agency for Clinton-related documents. Justice Department lawyers have said these emails will eventually be made public — but it will take years for most of them to be cleared under public-records laws and released.
[Clinton-related work emails on Anthony Weiner computer may become public by 2022]
Chaffetz said that’s too long, and predicted that “a Trump administration would be cooperative in getting these floodgates to open as they should.”
Trump said last month he would appoint a special prosecutor to examine Clinton’s use of a private email server. Such a prosecution would have to be pursued by his attorney general, who would have to agree with his assessment that the email practices violated criminal laws governing mishandling of classified information.…
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a dying human brain, discovering that it showed the same patterns as seen during dreaming, memory recall and meditation. Findings published in journal Frontiers in Ageing Neuroscience showed the recording of the activity in an 87-year-old patient who had been connected to an electroencephalography (EEG) machine to detect seizures and treat the patient, when he suddenly had a heart attack and passed away. The 900 seconds of brain activity that were measured around the time of the patient’s death were described as being similar to “life recall.” The experience, which has been likened to what happens around a near-death experience.[and from another]Frontiers Journal Ranking Analysis: Human NeuroscienceJune 28, 2017https://blog.frontiersin.org/2017/06/28/quality-impact-journal-anal...In summary, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience: Is the 1st most-cited journal in Psychology, and 8th most cited in Neurosciences, with 4,864 citations. Ranks at the 78th percentile of Journal Impact Factors in the category of Psychology, and in the 58th percentile in Neurosciences.[and from another] A Replay of Life: What Happens in our Brain when we Die?February 22, 2022https://blog.frontiersin.org/2022/02/22/what-happens-in-our-brain-w...Imagine reliving your entire life in the space of seconds. Like a flash of lightning, you are outside of your body, watching memorable moments you lived through. This process, known as ‘life recall’, can be similar to what it’s like to have a near-death experience. What happens inside your brain during these experiences and after death are questions that have puzzled neuroscientists for centuries. However, a new study published to Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience suggests that your brain may remain active and coordinated during and even after the transition to death, and be programmed to orchestrate the whole ordeal.
SOZTWe have addressed what the soul experiences http://www.zetatalk.com/density/d31.htmat death – being greeted in a tunnel of light by souls they knew during the incarnation and being ushered to a critique http://www.zetatalk.com/density/d29.htmby the Birthing Guides. But what does the human brain experience at the moment of death? There is a common report that one’s life flashes before one at the moment of death, and this is true. The human brain simultaneously supports many functions, but during death many portions of the brain lack blood and oxygen while other parts continue to be supported. As is known, short and long term memory are separate functions of the brain, so short term memories must be integrated into long term memory banks during sleep. Long term memory is one of the last parts of the brain to die, thus the “life recall” reported. EOZT
Prior 1996 ZT: http://www.zetatalk.com/density/d31.htmHumans are aware of a reception line awaiting them when they die, from the reports of Near Death Experiences - a long tunnel with a bright white light at the end, and those now deceased who were close to them waiting or beckoning. If the moment of death is confusing to doctors, it is no less clear in the spiritual realm. Beyond the issue of when the spirit leaves the body is the spiritual issue of how the entity puts the past life to rest, judges progress made on various lessons that were at the fore going into the incarnation, and determines any future course of action they personally might desire as a result - critique time.
Prior 1996 ZT: http://www.zetatalk.com/density/d29.htmWe have mentioned that spirit guides force an Out-Of-Body entity back into its body, and that birthing envoys gather up entities leaving a dead or dying body. How is this done without physical restraints? If spirits can pass through walls and travel freely, would they not simply flit away from the entities watching over them? Order is maintained in these situations by what we would best describe as a force of will.…
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us? It seems that we can't understand them directly or we may misunderstand them without Zetas' explanations. If they are drawn for us, why so hard to understand? Same as telepathy message. It seems those people who saw the UFO didn't receive the message, as no one declared such things. How can we receive it if some UFO come to send messages? By meditation or just sleeping? [and from another] I´ve studied and tried to decipher several crop circle formations for months, by using both ratio and instinct. However, even after somebody has explained what they mean, I still can´t make sense out of them. Nonhumans chose to limit their one-way communication with humans to crop circles, a language whose grammar, syntax, semantics and even the alphabet and unknown to us (whereas the binary system, dance, music and math are universal). If most people have no clue what message is inside each crop circle and any guesswork is ambiguous at best, then maybe the subconscious alone isn´t efficient enough to process it, we have the will to understand but there is some other, necessary element missing in us. A message understood by the sender but not by the intended receiver means that the whole purpose of the exercise is defeated. Or are the messages meant only for a selected few who have been given the key to understand them, in which case why not send the intended few the message directly instead of going to all the trouble to lay them out carefully for everybody to see? Weather forecasts and a timetable for decades after the PS, said to be conveyed by the circles, are the most valuable intel of all time; such info would usually be suppressed by TPTB as a means to control the masses and resources. If TPTB are aware crop circles convey information that is priceless for survival, why do TPTB allow the circles to remain in place instead of rushing to film/record them and then blur or outright destroy them so they alone can use the info? Or do the crop circles convey their message hidden within a visual "white lie" to throw them off track, while allowing normal people (that is, those lucky chosen who know how) to get the true message?
Those who complain they are not aware of telepathic messages, or not aware of what their subconscious is trying to tell them, are having an internal battle where the finger of blame can only be cast upon them. The messages are delivered, the subconscious receives it. The subconscious, as with all it experiences, never forgets or confuses the issues. It is the conscious that is the problem, and in particular the conscious in those people who play denial games with themselves. The husband is having an affair but the wife chooses not to notice the late absences or the odd stains on his clothing. The family is living beyond their means but rather than face this and make adjustments father ignores the rising pile of bills and even splurges on new toys, in angry rebellion over his circumstances. The incarnating soul often carries with it these tendencies, to avoid confrontation or to stubbornly insist that change is not required. What happens when a human who has structured their life, their conscious life, to their comfort is faced with a conflict between the subconscious and conscious? The conscious memories are pruned and altered to the satisfaction of the soul, so the person can be living almost in a dream state, denying everything unpleasant and literally delusional about the future. But the subconscious, which never forgets and is aware of all, nags, as does the soul which likewise is aware. If you are having problems getting even a clue from crop circles, even when gazing at them with your mind cleared and willing to be receptive, the problem is not with the circle makers. The problem is with you. We have stated that humans will be divided into two camps as the Earth changes accelerate. Those who recognize what is happening and those increasingly in hardened denial. Denial is assisted, in fact only possible, because the conscious is pliant and can selectively forget or alter memories. What happens when someone prone to consciousness games sees crop circles or receives a telepathic warning from a UFO blitz? Rather than listen to their hunches, they angrily suppress them. Even should the government come out and announce the pending passage, the reality of Planet X nearby, these individuals are likely to simply forget they heard the announcement, or argue that some other meaning was intended.…
igious and don't believe in heaven or hell. Was the devil in reference to some other type of being outside of the typical connotation humans prescribe? [and from another]But what of the qualification that the time when the woman, Virgo, gives birth on September 23, 2017 it is not the time of the Pole Shift? Revelations 12:1-16 seems to be saying she has 1260 days to go, 3.5 years, before the “war broke out in heaven”.SOZTWhy are two Books of the Bible – Revelations and Daniel – giving an explicate day count for the End Times? The Book of Mark states that none shall know the date, and we have asserted this likewise. The date is not to be known by man, as those who lean to evil intentions would use this knowledge to harm the common man. We are allowed to give a sequence of events, such as the Last Weeks, and to confirm that the passage will coincide with the end of a Magnetic Trimester – toward the end of an August, December, or April. Yet both Revelations and Daniel repeatedly refer to 1260 days, or 42 months. As we have stated, those in the Service-to-Self hope to reap a harvest of souls during the forthcoming passage, and thus wish to increase a sense of abandonment and hopelessness. We have also stated that the Service-to-Self attempted to twist http://www.zetatalk.com/index/zeta496.htmthe words of Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha, and for this reason Jesus took care to repeat his key lessons often, verbally, so they could not be twisted. Jesus did not write the Bible. Men who could be under the influence of entities in the Service-to-Self were often the authors. The date of the passage, the hour of the Pole Shift, is understandably a hot topic. There is scarcely a family without a member wanting to linger before moving to a safe location, wanting to remain in school, to retain the solid job and paycheck, to stay among friends. The status quo has many tentacles, from the Credit Card and Mortgage payments to contracts of every flavor. Yet every delay has risks. Travel can be blocked, bank accounts frozen, and Martial Law with forced work camps imposed. If only the date were known! For the elite, the desire to know the date is acute. Some among the elite desire to poison those http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/06fe2016.htmin human society they consider a drain – the sick, the mentally retarded, and the aged. These same elements want Martial Law as soon as possible, so they can have their assets protected and assign corporate management over slave labor in work camps. Yet the combined written knowledge on how to compute the date of the passage http://zetatalk.com/ning/14ma2011.htm– from Egyptian, Sumerian, Mayan, and Persian documentation - is contradictory. Rather than seeking a date certain, focus instead on empathy and helping others. This is currency that the elite cannot take from you. Such Service-to-Other enclaves will find the sharing and caring not only make each individual more secure, it brings help from good hearted aliens who will be allowed to make conscious contact with these camps. These Service-to-Other enclaves are forming and growing steadily, as contactees are guided on where to go during relocation. And as we have stated repeatedly, it is better to move now than later, despite arguments for delay. EOZTPrior 2009 ZT: http://www.zetatalk.com/index/zeta496.htmOur basic statement is that the words of Jesus were not written. He did not write them down, but repeated them so many times that his words could not be skewed. Those who wrote the Bible were in all cases expressing their agenda, which in most cases was leaning toward the Service-to-Self. Prior ZT: http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/06fe2016.htmThat the Bush administration intended to use vaccines to eliminate unwanted members of the populace just ahead of the Last Weeks is well documented. One need only review the past, the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, to see what is possible. This is an example of why the date of the Pole Shift will not be known, as those in the Service-to-Self would use this knowledge to harm innocents. Prior ZT: http://zetatalk.com/ning/14ma2011.htmThere are too many similarities to be coincidence indeed. The solar system on the franc cannot be denied, as all the planets and even their moons are marked. A comet like object enters coming within the orbit of Venus on the franc. Then there are the tall men, with slender faces. The Annunaki, even historically, as seen as walking taller than man, giants, with a face and head more long than round. Why would the Swiss be in possession of this information, and why would they put it on their franc? The Puppet Master lives in Europe and certainly utilizes the secrecy of the Swiss banks during his massive global operations. Does the Puppet Master know the timing of the pole shift? The timing is known by no man, nor was it provided by the Annunaki, as the slow creep of Planet X past the Sun can encounter many obstacles. The path is certain, the timing is not.…
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er their feet. While no one knows if they are dead or alive, this terrible event revived tensions between Chinese mining companies and ethnic Mongolians about the intensive and destructive exploitation of their grasslands.
Below is an article from Radio Free Asia: http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/sinkhole-04222014122453.html
Three people are feared dead after a massive sinkhole swallowed their home in the northern Chinese region of Inner Mongolia in a formerly nomadic grassland area that is now home to intensive mining operations, residents said on Tuesday [22 April 2014].
Monday's [21 April 2014] cave-in in the region's Alxa (in Chinese, Alashan) League Left Banner, saw the ground fall to a depth of at least 50 meters (164 feet), eyewitnesses told RFA. "It was very sudden," a resident of Alxa's Alunbag (in Chinese, Alunbage) township said. "They haven't even managed to dig the people out yet." "I think that it goes down very deep; those three people are unlikely to still be alive," the resident, Urchichige, said. "Their house must have collapsed."
He blamed a local iron-ore mining operation for the accident. "It was definitely to do with the mining," he said. "The iron-ore mine has hollowed out the earth. It's been dug hollow down there." "None of us herders knew how hollow it had become, or how far it extended," Urchichige said. "We didn't know they were tunneling because we didn't see it."
He said the mine extended as far as 200 meters (656 feet) below the surface, and that local people had already complained of disturbances from dynamiting underground. "It's pretty bad when you're trying to sleep at night," he said.
The three people swallowed by the subsidence were from three different generations of the same herding family, according to posts on social media sites. "Three generations were swallowed up as they lay dreaming, along with their house, their car, their tractor, a sheepfold and a few cattle," according to a Twitter-like post from user @Uighunfan.
"Three ambulances and medical staff from Jilantai township are at the scene, but they have only managed to save a few cows," the post said.
Repeated calls to the ruling Chinese Communist Party committee in Alunbag township, the Alxa League government propaganda department and the Alxa Left Banner—the administrative equivalent of a county—government rang unanswered or went unconnected during office hours on Tuesday [22 April 2014].
A local resident surnamed Wang said the accident had happened on a hill near her house. "I heard they hadn't found them yet; I heard they died," she said.
Clashes between Chinese companies and ethnic Mongolian herders protesting the exploitation of their grasslands are increasingly common in the region, which borders the independent country of Mongolia. Rights activists say grasslands on which the herding communities depend for a living are constantly being taken over for mining and forestry exploitation, putting an end to the herders' traditional way of life. Ethnic Mongolians, who make up almost 20 percent of Inner Mongolia's population of 23 million, also complain of environmental destruction and unfair development policies in the region. Last week, Chinese authorities detained a group of herders from Chagaan-oboo Gachaa in Heshigten Banner (in Chinese, Keshiketeng Qi) to the north of Chifeng city after they staged a sit-in protest in front of the Inner Mongolia Yindu Mining Co.
Herders told RFA that the company had been dumping toxic waste onto their grazing lands in since January, causing the death of livestock. Intensive exploitation of coal seams in the past few decades to meet skyrocketing energy demands has undermined the geological structure of the earth in many locations across China, investigative journalists say.
On Aug. 15, 2011, the whole of Pangpangta village in northern Shanxi province was swallowed up by subsidence. Photos of Pangpangta village posted on Chinese news websites and bulletin boards showed houses fallen into chasms in the earth, huge cracks along a village street, and collapsed and damaged buildings similar to a scene after an earthquake. Last June, authorities in the central province of Henan sent in riot police to disperse thousands of local residents protesting subsidence linked to a local mining operation. More than 3,000 villagers from Henan's Xuchang county said local mining operations have devastated the ground near their homes, swallowed up a road, and left cracks in their houses.
Photo courtesy by a local resident
Source: http://www.unpo.org/article/17067…
y homes were damaged and a car rolled over on the Trans-Canada Highway after a water main break spilled millions of gallons of water.
Photograph by: Submitted , Saanich Police Department
VICTORIA — Crews are working to repair a water main that burst early Saturday morning, spewing out a river of water that created a huge sinkhole on a Vancouver Island roadway, damaged several homes and caused a car on the Trans-Canada Highway to roll over.
An estimated two million gallons of water was spilled onto Burnside Road West in Saanich, outside Victoria.
Hardest hit was Jeffrey Stephen’s home on Belgrave Road. Stephen woke with a start about 6 a.m. Saturday to what he thought was a torrential rainfall.
“I thought I’d never seen it rain this hard. So I went out to the porch to realize it wasn’t rain. It was an eight-foot-deep river rushing through the house. It was as though I stepped onto the deck of a boat. [From] my second-storey deck I could reach down and be in the water,” he said.
While insured, Stephen lost hundreds of photos and family mementos along with four motorcycles and all his tools. The water gushed through the lower level of the house for a good hour.
It was a bitter turn for Stephen, who over the past five years has been restoring the home himself, including jacking it up and replacing the foundation. He had only moved in a year ago.
“I framed it and made it into a dream home and I was the labour for all of it ... Throughout the build, I’ve been broken into. I’ve been cleaned out of all of my tools. My father died halfway through the build so it’s just been one thing after the next. You finally move in, and this happens,” he said.
Alanna Jackson, Stephen’s next-door neighbour, whose house was one of two on the block that escaped serious damage, described the scene as “total chaos and devastation.”
“It was as if there was a free-flowing river going down Belgrave. I’ve got rubber boots on but the water was up to my knees,” she said.
Both CRD and Saanich crews were quickly on the scene Saturday morning and working with the hope of having the main repaired by the end of the day. Whether or not they would be able to fill the gaping hole that had formed at the intersection of Burnside Road and Wilkinson Road and reopen the roads was uncertain.
“We’re probably looking at least the end of the day before the intersection is opened, and possibly longer depending on the extent of the damage,” Ted Robbins, CRD general manager of integrated water services, said from the scene.
“The limiting factor will be if we run out of daylight, but if that’s the case we’ll get lights and work into the night to try to get the intersection reopened.
Police initially responded about 6:30 a.m to reports of flooding on Burnside. About the same time there was a rollover on the Trans-Canada. They discovered the highway was flooding and that the sinkhole had formed nearby.
Saanich Police Sgt. Steve Eassie said a woman, the lone occupant of the car, had been driving south on the Trans-Canada when she unexpectedly encountered the water flow.
“The significant amount of water on the roadway caused her to lose control of the vehicle. I believe she hit a speed sign and then went across into the median and then obviously the vehicle at some point dug in and rolled over,” Eassie said.
The woman was taken to hospital with what appeared to be minor injuries, Eassie said.
Work crews were called to deal with the sinkhole and police went door to door to alert neighbours.
Burnside Road West was closed and the Trans-Canada was reduced to one lane in either direction during the initial stages of repair. By 10:30 a.m. the highway had been reopened to southbound traffic. Northbound traffic was restricted for much of the day.
Emergency Social Services set up a comfort centre at St. Joseph's Church, 785 Burnside Rd. W., for residents affected by the flood but it wasn’t well used, said Mayor Frank Leonard.
“Practically speaking, we’re finding that folks don’t want to leave their homes and go there,” Leonard said. “But when you think about it, you wouldn’t want to leave your home.”
Leonard said Saanich was doing everything it could to get the neighbourhood back to normal.
“We’re throwing everything we have at it. Our crews are there and there’s more on standby and CRD management are there as well,” he said.
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http://www.theprovince.com/news/Water+main+break+creates+massive+sinkhole+damages+homes+Vancouver/10263226/story.html
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