Windstorm aftermath, December 26, 2024:
There is a little bit of debris farther up the trail, around the bed, but just a few twigs and things.
Windstorm aftermath, August 29, 2015:
The primary difference, of course, is that in August the trees have all their leaves on them, which makes branches heavy and…dangerous. On this day, I actually noped out of trying to navigate the trail, though the storm had passed at this point.
We had a windstorm blow through the area (as windstorms do) on the night of November 10th, a few days ago as I write this.
I went birding the next day and captured a few shots of the destruction while walking down the Brunette River trail.
First, the pretty. The wind yoinked a bunch of leaves off the trees, making the trail resplendent in fall colours:
And the destruction. This was the largest piece of debris on the river trail I saw, and definitely not something you would want clobbering you on the head at 70-90 km/h:
This rare non-run day shot from the top of the Cariboo Dam shows that the morning after the storm was actually pretty decent:
“So, what’s new?”
“Not much, just…mass animal deaths around the globe.”
I don’t know which is creepier, all of these mass death events (“500+ blackbirds”, “thousands of fish”) or the fact that Google maps allows you to conveniently peruse all of them.