Vancouver's Stanley Park decimated by wind storm

[jawnbc]

Some of you probably have heard about the nasty "weather bomb" that hit Vancouver and the region last week. Among the particularly hard hit areas was Stanley Park--the 1000 acre jewel of downtown Vancouver.

Thousands of trees blown down by wind. Seawall ripped up by 5m waves. It will take months to clear the debris and probably years to repair the damage (and many many years for the trees to grow back.

See for yourself some of the damage

I'm gutted.

Comments

[scream4noreason.livejournal.com]

Oh that looks bad,still,you can see how beautiful the park is.

[jeneration.livejournal.com]

I'm really sad to hear that. Even though things grow again, it will grow into a different place... and none of us will be left when the new trees are 2000 years old.

[rob-nickel.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link. I heard it was bad of course, but haven't had a chance to go and check it out for myself. Wonder how much it will change the park in the long run.
We have some huge trees in my neighborhood - big Oaks and stuff. Luckily none of them fell because they could crush whole houses.

[mason5280.livejournal.com]

The damage is amazing - Stanley Park is amazing, I hope she recovers quickly. You think Mama Nature is pissed at us maybe??!

[madknits.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry to hear about this.

Stanley Park was one of my favourite places, and my walk along the sea wall (the entire thing) was one of the high points of my trip to Vancouver. The CanCub lives within walking distance of the park, and it has an important place in my memories with him.

[stoplabelingme.livejournal.com]

Deja vu.

[jamaisneutral.livejournal.com]

oh damn... nature can be so bloody cruel.

[bluebear2.livejournal.com]

What pisses me off is the idea of logging the fallen over trees. If this is a real park/slice of nature then the trees should be left to rot where they fall, (except moved off of trails and roads of course) and then baby cedars can grow on them. If we let logging companies in for this one time, then that sets a precedence and they'll be going in to "do touch ups" or pruning to look pretty and then the next thing you know, a delightful little condo goes up in the middle of the park to help finance it. So much of the west coast forest is already gone. We need at least a few pockets of it to see what used to be.

[schillerium.livejournal.com]

Yoiks!

[holden-wake.livejournal.com]

Its a bummer, man.

Holy Shit

[weebax.livejournal.com]

I remember walking by that seawall!!

I know the devastation is pretty awful to look at. It will take years to clean up. But you never can tell. Nature has a way of coming back on it's own. Quebec was hit with a nasty ice storm int he early 90's. Most of the forests in around Quebec sustained heavy damaged. Today you wouldn't notice any of the damage. Most of the trees have sprung back to life.

[slate-canada.livejournal.com]

Been following it all on the news. An absolute tragedy.

Oi global warming.