Vancouver rundown for Thursday, November 21st, 2024.
We now know some of the strongest gusts reached up to 170 kilometers an hour in that windstorm that hit Vancouver Island and parts of the lower mainland Tuesday evening.
BC Hydro also says close to 300,000 customers were without power at the peak of the cyclone bomb.
Vancouver's Langara College had to cancel classes Wednesday morning over concerns about fallen trees on some power lines.
Meanwhile, many parts of the Fraser Valley experienced very few problems during that same storm.
Other news, a man continues to recover in hospital more than a week after being hit by a car on Nanaimo Street in Vancouver.
Police say he was found lying on the road early in the evening on Tuesday, November 12th.
His injuries are described as life altering.
Police continue to look for information about who hit the 32 year old.
Police now confirm two teens were the victims of that double fatal crash on Highway 99 in South Surrey early Monday morning.
An 18 year old boy from Richmond and a 15 year old girl from Surrey died after a car went off the road between 16th and 32nd avenues at around 340 a.m.
There's no word on what they were up to at the time of the crash.
The so-called living wage for Metro Vancouver is now more than twenty seven dollars an hour.
The left wing Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives says that's a 5.3 percent increase over last year.
BC's current minimum wage, 17 dollars and 40 cents an hour.
More rain in the forecast for Friday, more showers in the forecast for Saturday.
For all the details on these local Vancouver area stories along with those links, go to vancouverrundown.substack.com.