There doesn’t seem to be any letup in BC’s annual monsoon season with the bad weather again closing a major highway to the province’s interior..Hwy. 3, which connects Vancouver to BC’s Interior reopened on Friday after suffering damage brought on by torrential rains, only to close again Monday because of another road washout..The highway was closed between Exit 173: Old Hope Princeton Way and Frontage Road in both directions from Hope to Princeton, as noted in a lunchtime tweet by DriveBC..About 12:30 p.m., DriveBC also stated crews were assessing the situation, but have no idea when the route will reopen..That leaves only Hwy. 99 through Lillooet as the only open road between Metro Vancouver and the Interior..A weather event — a so-called ‘atmospheric river’ — poured a month’s worth of rain on some parts of BC last weekend, leaving much of the Fraser Valley flooded and all major highways closed because of mudslides, washouts and other rain-related damages.
There doesn’t seem to be any letup in BC’s annual monsoon season with the bad weather again closing a major highway to the province’s interior..Hwy. 3, which connects Vancouver to BC’s Interior reopened on Friday after suffering damage brought on by torrential rains, only to close again Monday because of another road washout..The highway was closed between Exit 173: Old Hope Princeton Way and Frontage Road in both directions from Hope to Princeton, as noted in a lunchtime tweet by DriveBC..About 12:30 p.m., DriveBC also stated crews were assessing the situation, but have no idea when the route will reopen..That leaves only Hwy. 99 through Lillooet as the only open road between Metro Vancouver and the Interior..A weather event — a so-called ‘atmospheric river’ — poured a month’s worth of rain on some parts of BC last weekend, leaving much of the Fraser Valley flooded and all major highways closed because of mudslides, washouts and other rain-related damages.
