People just never learn: Need winter tires, don't tail gate especially on the down hills, wait at the bottom before you go up on the hill if there is a car at the top
It’s always difficult to convince ppl to use winter tire in lower mainland but it’s going to get even harder as average winter season temp is well above 0 degree and the number of days that is considered cold is generally short..not going to get ppl to switch to winter tire unless it’s really cold enough for prolonged periods like 2-3 weeks minimum …..
@jonathandeavey Yes, because if you stop at the middle of a hill, you may have a hard time to start moving uphill once the traffic in front of you starts moving.
This seems to happen once almost every year in Vancouver. People need to learn that they need winter tires and the city needs to learn they need to invest in infrastructure to be better prepared.
Winter tires are not the end all be all. What we need are meteorologists that can freaking predict snow! It was on the news of cold temps, but no mention of snow or ice in the city whatsoever. No. Nada!
There are too many hills. And since the temperature there is at around 0Celcius, the road is more slippery. There is also a lot of traffic. Although Toronto and Montreal have more people, Vancouver is actually more dense compared to the two.
I’m originally from calgary, moved to vancouver 4 years ago. I always thought winters here would be easy. Every winter was okay for me except this one. I drive the same suv (awd) with winters in calgary and in Vancouver. 0 issues when I was in calgary, but last night with fresh winter tires too, I was sliding like I was on an ice rink. The hills were all black ice and the roads had 0 prep. I don’t blame the drivers here anymore because it’s seriously not on them. Yes winter tires will help lots, but honestly, on steep hills with ice, nothing will help. The city needs to prep the roads, put gravel like they do in calgary or at least salt it before the storm came…. It was forecasted weeks ago. Took me 4.5 hrs from west end to Burnaby. Another thing is, there is no point clearing the snow.. dry snow actually helps with traction. They should use the trucks to salt or gravel the roads instead.
What's your point? Are you saying it's not news worthy that roads and highways are pretty much impassable? I guess you don't drive or work or have other responsibilities
@@bobwoods1302 "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results". Keep building car-dependent cities, this is what you get.
@@fridericusrex9812or you know, people on the coast could buy winter tires and be prepared for the weather, like the rest of the province does, without issue.
It's -35 this morning here in northern BC (not counting wind chill). That presents a whole new set of problems that Vancouverites couldn't even imagine.
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Moved to Surrey, B.C. from Saint John, N.B. (Maritimes) 9 years ago. Couldn't believe the chaos over 3 - 4 centimeters of snow. Meanwhile I was grateful for not bein' back home where the East Coast set snowfall records that Winter.
Ice was caused by precipitation falling just before rush hour, right as the temperature was dropping from 2C to below freezing due to the arctic air influx. Why did they not salt the roads the night before?
A great Invention would be a dashboard Button that delivers a Thin stream of Coarse Sand right in front of your Tires. I want the Upgrade !! Better would be Coarse Sand glued to each Tire 😅
When I tell friends they need winter tires and they don't understand how important they are, you end up with situations like this. Its important to understand that rubber compounds are designed to work differently under certain temperatures, so its not all about the tread pattern, there is science behind it as well. Get yourself winter tires people!
The city did salt the road. Plowing is irrelevant when you only get a couple of inches. The real problem was that the salt they put down didn't do anything because it was too cold for the salt to work.
Yup, firefighters let fires spread in the summer and in the winter we never have enough plows.... almost like they are pushing some kind of agenda.....
@@ctaylor8003it makes no sense to you because you have no idea what your talking about. ... Move and live in east and you will see salt , sand , gravel and snow removal used. Vancouver and the surrounding municipalities had plently of warning of the storm..... zero salt on the roads and no plows during the storm. Their snow removal strategy.... its only a few inches wait for it to melt .
this one is different from the ones before... I live around metrotown, the snow is not that heavy last night, I guess it just snow a little bit but freeze up after, it turn out there is a lot of black ice which is causing the big trouble here, like I can;'t shovel off the snow this morning as they are half now half ice...
Born and raised in BC, lived in Vancouver for 10 years, still laugh every time it snows like that down there and see all the incompetents learning how to drive!!!
Dude, its not the snow, its the ICE. The city is also not prepared, in other provences it was so easy driving cause the plows are out right away, and the snow in the praries is so dry that its super easy to drive in. The last few winters have been soooo icy. Last night was awful, every street was just a sheet of ice.
Agreed. When it snows or ices I generally stay home -- not because I can't drive in snow, but because of what other clueless drivers (and I never mentioned ethnicity) are doing.
@@calincarter6506 snow tires will still skid on ice. I watched a guy skid past a stop sign slowly and he had freakin studs on! It was crazy. Def dummies without snow tires out there, but really everyone was struggling.
Even if you have an excellent off road vehicle with winter tires driving in Vancouver when it snows is just foolish because virtually everyone else either has little driving experience in the snow or a vehicle incapable of driving in it. Even though I have a vehicle that can easily handle the snow/ice I make sure to run all my errands before a storm hits so I don't have to go anywhere for several days and just wait it out. Worst case scenario I will drive late at night or early on the weekends to get somewhere.
I do exactly the same thing. I grew up in Winnipeg so am used to driving in snow and on ice. I live in Victoria now. So, I do my errands (don't forget baguettes, wine and nice cheeses) and then stay home until the "crisis" is over. (we WILL rebuild...😂)
One of my co-workers drove through 6" of snow to the Langley motor vehicle branch to do his drivers s test and got there to find it closed due to snow. This is what happens when ICBC does not have a thorough driving education approach.
I live in the east , do they use road salt and sand on the roads as soon as there is a weather event that will make the roads hazardous? I do the same as you do, I make sure I have everything I would need before the storm, food for us and our pets, and road salt.
The exact same thing as if you're stuck with a petrol car? Why would it be any different? EVs are actually better in the snow because their center of gravity is very low. I personally live in one of the snowiest part of Canada (Saguenay) and I never had any single problem with my Chevy Bolt, even when it's -35 degrees. The main problem in Vancouver is that: 1) people don't have winter tires 2) people don't know how to drive in the snow For every Canadians outside of Vancouver, the images we see in this video are pathetic because this wouldn't even be considered as a "snowstorm" anywhere else in Canada.
@@cornstar1253 EVs don't consume much energy when they are stuck in trafic, since an electric motor doesn't consume energy if it's not moving. Who should you believe? The guy who litterally owns an EV and drives it regularly in actual snowstorms of 30+ centimeters by -25 degrees, or someone who never ever sat in one and who's scared of less than 5 centimeters of snow on the ground???? We litterally received 60 centimeters of snow this week in Saguenay, and there's another 30 to 40 centimeters coming tomorrow... And no one is panicking over here.
@@in4chandru Go read my last comment. I said it right, not this other guy who clearly never drove an EV nor ever drove in an ACTUAL snowstorm like we get everywhere else in Canada 🤦
WINTER'S SNOW - 2024** Over the heads of all I meet Falls winter's life giving snow. Upon the rooftops and the streets Filling the sky and earth below. Dancing, swirling, skimming along, Like the snows of yesteryears. There's lots of ice on the windows As my lashes freeze over with tears. It's so cold; it's too cold to snow Yet the snow continues to fall. The land is covered blanket white As the winter winds wail their call. There's a red-hot fire awaiting me That will thaw out my every part. It's not the glow of a fireplace But the love that dwells in my heart. By Tom Zart!
Calgary weather has a habit of getting warm and getting cold really fast so all the snow tends to melt then freeze over in to ice. Don't know if Edmonton has the same problem.
What?!? That’s impossible for snow to fall in the lower mainland! It’s global warming! This must be mis/dis/malinformation! I’m offended! I need a safe space! 😂
The Lower Mainland is not required to have winter tires like the rest of Canada. Combine that with inexperience, steep hills and a lot of people this is what you get. I grew up in Surrey and now live in northern bc and winter driving is completely different with winter tires, colder temperatures less people and less hills. Stop comparing Vancouver with the rest of Canada, it makes no sense.
@@raecross8872people the prob, no snow tires. And gov the problem, they don’t salt and de-ice in advance. Apparently we can stop ‘climate change’ from killing us but we can’t prepare for a small snowstorm a week in advance?
@@ctaylor8003This morning, yep, it's pretty cold for around here. In Surrey we hit a low of -14. But yesterday's "snowstrorm" during rush hour? I think it may have dropped to a whopping -10 at one point. Go anywhere else in Canada and you will experience much harsher winter conditions and much more capable drivers. The only "storm" yesterday was a pile up of cars and drivers unequipped for even the slightest variation from the norm.
LMAO we are doing just fine here in the province of B.C.....Well, other than Vancouver that is. The Vancouver people, see they don't think they need to buy winter tires, they enjoy the sensation of sliding all over the road, and slamming into other vehicles! It is a good way to meet people! It is a bit of a winter sport there. Bless their souls.
Ha Ha Ha.....from Heffley Creek BC ......minus 29 today and every road up here is solid packed snow and a sheet of ice......however we have studded snow tires and 4x4 trucks so all is good......glad I left the madness of the lower mainland
The City of Burnaby muni did not have some of the main roads ready for this storm. Kingsway was an ice rink. I took me almost 2 hours to go from Kingsway and Boundary to Edmonds!
The city of Bby was salting, but the dummies in charge don't understand that salt doesn't work when it's really cold. so the salt didn't melt anything.
@@JohnnyCanuck-he9ib Not even the lower mainland as Surrey/Delta area had clear roads. People who are actually from Vancouver can drive in it. It's the lot that trudeau brings in that cannot. 60% of BC's 5+million population live in the lower mainland.
It took my friend over 2 hours to get home, which is usually a 20 minute drive. Buses, at the beginning of the snow which lasted 20-30 minutes, were spinning tires. Come on Vancouver, it wasn't even an inch. I went out at the beginning, went to the bay for half an hour, came out and it was done. No more snow but it was cold.
@@brucewmclaughlin9072 you are victim blaming, even experienced skilled drivers have trouble in snow and ice. There was a 17 car pile up, is every single person involved clueless? Or were they innocently trying to just get home from work?
Not in this part of Canada where we only have a couple days of snow many winters. But yes, should still have winter tires, or not drive in the snow without them.
I was at my buddy's pad in the Hastings Sunrise area, where all the traffic calming barriers are in place to prevent through traffic. Suburbanites getting off Hastings to beat the gridlock were in for a rude awakening! They got directed away from where they thought they could be. Funny AF.
Global News needs to understand that winter weather can be inconvenient. That is not "news"! Journalists and news editors at Global News might do some "journalism"? Seldom seen here!
Winter tires should be mandatory for ALL vehicles across BC and this wouldn't be happening. Every municipality should also be held accountable for the poor road service and they had time to prepare.
Up here in Canada the road crews check the weather reports and will do a proactive action by spraying the soon to be icy roads with calcium chloride mixed with water. Too bad the lower mainland thinks that anything north of Kelowna is wilderness, they could maybe pick up a trick or two.
Salt trucks were on the roads all over the vancouver area. What you don't understand is that salt doesn't work when it's really cold. It got that cold in vancouver.
Same story every year, every time snow hits Vancouver. You know it's going to happen at some point in the winter, yet everyone is caught off guard. Perhaps people aren't watching the weather or MSM and rely on other sources to get the weather, which are also failing them.
It's an old memory from the late 70s; standing on the front porch, Coffee Mug in hand, Listening to a at least Two Dozen Cars crashing into other Cars and Every Obstacle imaginable on a Cold, clear Morning. Vancouverites Showing off their Amazing and Complete inability to Drive on even a tiny amount of Snow or Ice. 🤐
All buses in BC just got brand new winter tires, top of the line and they still slide off the roads. Maybe it should be mandatory for the city to salt the roads....
In norther Italy you must have winter tyres on or chains in the boot during winter , compulsory , even if it is sunny and 20 degrees . I can't believe they don't have such laws in Canada. Bizarre !
So you want to politicize a snowstorm? Just because you work at a gas station doesn't mean you need to beat the drum for big oil. There's other jobs out there. You'll be ok. 😂🤣
Every year people of Vancouver do not earn that not driving on a frozen hills, will save them from a costly repairs. Also city of Vancouver should pay for repairs of some of damages caused by uncleanness of the snow and ice formed, since every year same happens. Declare mandatory snow tires as they did in Quebec, BC you will solve 70% of issues.
The headline "Snow causes traffic mayhem" is false. It should read "Drivers not driving according to the road conditions and likely don't have winter tires on".
BECAUSE IT SNOWS ONCE EVERY 10 YEARS, I GUESS NO DRIVER FEELS THEY NEED PROPER(WINTER) TIRES AND THIS IS WHY ALL THOSE PREVENTABLE HIGH-SPEED CRASHES!!!
People just never learn: Need winter tires, don't tail gate especially on the down hills, wait at the bottom before you go up on the hill if there is a car at the top
It’s always difficult to convince ppl to use winter tire in lower mainland but it’s going to get even harder as average winter season temp is well above 0 degree and the number of days that is considered cold is generally short..not going to get ppl to switch to winter tire unless it’s really cold enough for prolonged periods like 2-3 weeks minimum …..
Winter tires aren’t just for snow. The rubber compound is better in single digit above freezing temps as well.
95% of folks in Canada can not compute your comment!
@@Dmbyers2002100% agree but like I said, this does not get through the general public in lower mainland ..
@jonathandeavey Yes, because if you stop at the middle of a hill, you may have a hard time to start moving uphill once the traffic in front of you starts moving.
This seems to happen once almost every year in Vancouver. People need to learn that they need winter tires and the city needs to learn they need to invest in infrastructure to be better prepared.
I'm of the impression that many of them WERE using winter tires, but even they struggled in these conditions.
Winter tires are not the end all be all.
What we need are meteorologists that can freaking predict snow! It was on the news of cold temps, but no mention of snow or ice in the city whatsoever. No. Nada!
Gasoline car emit CO2 and H2O, H2O turn into blizzard
@@conorcahill5422 it's not legally required there and most people don't use them since it's not needed most of the time.
There are too many hills. And since the temperature there is at around 0Celcius, the road is more slippery. There is also a lot of traffic. Although Toronto and Montreal have more people, Vancouver is actually more dense compared to the two.
I’m originally from calgary, moved to vancouver 4 years ago. I always thought winters here would be easy. Every winter was okay for me except this one. I drive the same suv (awd) with winters in calgary and in Vancouver. 0 issues when I was in calgary, but last night with fresh winter tires too, I was sliding like I was on an ice rink. The hills were all black ice and the roads had 0 prep.
I don’t blame the drivers here anymore because it’s seriously not on them. Yes winter tires will help lots, but honestly, on steep hills with ice, nothing will help.
The city needs to prep the roads, put gravel like they do in calgary or at least salt it before the storm came…. It was forecasted weeks ago.
Took me 4.5 hrs from west end to Burnaby.
Another thing is, there is no point clearing the snow.. dry snow actually helps with traction. They should use the trucks to salt or gravel the roads instead.
Всё просто: если у вас чистят снег с дорог - нужна липучка, если не чистят - шипы. Зимняя резина разная бывает.
It's the same thing every winter.
What's your point? Are you saying it's not news worthy that roads and highways are pretty much impassable? I guess you don't drive or work or have other responsibilities
You would think that a country that gets snow wouldn't design its cities such that they are dependent on cars for getting around.
@@bobwoods1302 "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results". Keep building car-dependent cities, this is what you get.
@@fridericusrex9812or you know, people on the coast could buy winter tires and be prepared for the weather, like the rest of the province does, without issue.
That is not the definition of insanity btw.😂 Get a dictionary and turn off FOX "News".@@fridericusrex9812
It's -35 this morning here in northern BC (not counting wind chill). That presents a whole new set of problems that Vancouverites couldn't even imagine.
I’ll take the -35° over such dreadfully icy roads! Here, I just checked the temperature and it has “warmed up” to -30° from -34°! 😁
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People in Vancouver can relate its -20 in Whister with wind -30 in Hope its -30
What happens Mother Russia copes better with the frost than enlightened Europe?! 😅🔥
@@LKNSag
Do you know where Vancouver is located?
Blaming icy roads lol, how about blaming stupid people
AKA women and immigrants
Moved to Surrey, B.C. from Saint John, N.B. (Maritimes) 9 years ago. Couldn't believe the chaos over 3 - 4 centimeters of snow. Meanwhile I was grateful for not bein' back home where the East Coast set snowfall records that Winter.
to be fair, there's only about 60 people in Saint John, the roads aren't that busy
Ice was caused by precipitation falling just before rush hour, right as the temperature was dropping from 2C to below freezing due to the arctic air influx. Why did they not salt the roads the night before?
Because all city workers are very busy. They are still debating how much to increase property tax.😉
A great Invention would be a dashboard Button that delivers a Thin stream of Coarse Sand right in front of your Tires. I want the Upgrade !! Better would be Coarse Sand glued to each Tire 😅
Is not even a storm. Is a tiny bit of snow. Is people not having winter tires on their cars.
A commute from hell unless you drive Subaru , and yes Subaru are that good , best AWD on planet
When I tell friends they need winter tires and they don't understand how important they are, you end up with situations like this. Its important to understand that rubber compounds are designed to work differently under certain temperatures, so its not all about the tread pattern, there is science behind it as well. Get yourself winter tires people!
“No one has like uh tires on and stuff “ …….so insightful
yeah, it's hard to watch when it's so dumb.
There is something called winter tires, yeah.
They do nothing when its ice sheets on the roads
@@jackielehman8945 they are still far far safer then all seasons.
Tires don't fix stupid unfortunately
MAKE IT MANDATORY FOR THE CITY TO SALT AND PLOW THE ROADS! STOP BLAMING THE TAXPAYERS WHEN THE CITY NEGLECTS ITS DUTIES TO THE PEOPLE!
The city did salt the road. Plowing is irrelevant when you only get a couple of inches. The real problem was that the salt they put down didn't do anything because it was too cold for the salt to work.
Lived there for 5yrs and always walked to work when it snowed , people didn't respond well to snow 🤯🤯🤯
You sound smarter than most people.
It barely snows in VanCity 🫥
Traffic mayhem in Vancouver happens all year round.
I live in the frozen north now… don’t miss the lowermainland bald tires, summer tires and bad drivers.
In Canada of all places people seem to be unaware of the existence of winter tyres. What a shame.
2 inches of snow in stupid towns that refuse to plow and salt.
Its criminal!!!! What are we paying taxes for?
Yup, firefighters let fires spread in the summer and in the winter we never have enough plows.... almost like they are pushing some kind of agenda.....
You should really look at the efficacy of salt at temperatures this low. Your comment makes no sense.
@@ctaylor8003it makes no sense to you because you have no idea what your talking about. ... Move and live in east and you will see salt , sand , gravel and snow removal used. Vancouver and the surrounding municipalities had plently of warning of the storm..... zero salt on the roads and no plows during the storm. Their snow removal strategy.... its only a few inches wait for it to melt .
@@elevatorbernie4924 OK so you admit you live back east and have no idea what you're talking about? Cool glad we're on the same page
this one is different from the ones before... I live around metrotown, the snow is not that heavy last night, I guess it just snow a little bit but freeze up after, it turn out there is a lot of black ice which is causing the big trouble here, like I can;'t shovel off the snow this morning as they are half now half ice...
I hope the mayor called in the military and declared a snowmageddon emergency!
Was living there last winter, a single snow turns mess. Don’t see a tiny issue in Calgary.
Calgary has less hills, less traffic and less Asian drivers. so not surprising.
Calgary is flat, dry, and more snow equiptment.
Looking like they don’t have winter tires man
Vancouver has million $$$ condos but cannot drive their cars. No city services .
This happens every couple of years, why don't Vancouver drivers learn?
They all showed up in Canada like 5 min ago
short term memories?
@@stumpel54 Is that demographic people who have never spent the day on the track?
Or young people?
Or old people?
Or are you just being racist?
@@stumpel54 To a normal racist, you're just being factual.
There’s no chance. There’s rarely any snow.
Born and raised in BC, lived in Vancouver for 10 years, still laugh every time it snows like that down there and see all the incompetents learning how to drive!!!
Dude, its not the snow, its the ICE.
The city is also not prepared, in other provences it was so easy driving cause the plows are out right away, and the snow in the praries is so dry that its super easy to drive in. The last few winters have been soooo icy. Last night was awful, every street was just a sheet of ice.
Yes we in Vancouver present utter stupidity to entertain those in the interior .
If only there was 4 specific rubber traction devices u could buy to help with bad weather
Agreed. When it snows or ices I generally stay home -- not because I can't drive in snow, but because of what other clueless drivers (and I never mentioned ethnicity) are doing.
@@calincarter6506 snow tires will still skid on ice. I watched a guy skid past a stop sign slowly and he had freakin studs on! It was crazy. Def dummies without snow tires out there, but really everyone was struggling.
Does Van not prep the roads in advance with rocks or salt.
When buying drugs your priority everything else gets pushed to the side.
The city does not plan well for snow and it all just gets blamed on people not having snow tires. Everyone I know has snow tires 🤷♀️
Can't even switch to public transit because the busses struggle in these conditions as well
Gosh, if only there was a way to make the planet warmer so all of this chaos and destruction would go away.
Apparently if you eat steak and idle at the drive thru that'll do it
Even if you have an excellent off road vehicle with winter tires driving in Vancouver when it snows is just foolish because virtually everyone else either has little driving experience in the snow or a vehicle incapable of driving in it. Even though I have a vehicle that can easily handle the snow/ice I make sure to run all my errands before a storm hits so I don't have to go anywhere for several days and just wait it out. Worst case scenario I will drive late at night or early on the weekends to get somewhere.
I do exactly the same thing. I grew up in Winnipeg so am used to driving in snow and on ice.
I live in Victoria now.
So, I do my errands (don't forget baguettes, wine and nice cheeses) and then stay home until the "crisis" is over.
(we WILL rebuild...😂)
One of my co-workers drove through 6" of snow to the Langley motor vehicle branch to do his drivers s test and got there to find it closed due to snow. This is what happens when ICBC does not have a thorough driving education approach.
I live in the east , do they use road salt and sand on the roads as soon as there is a weather event that will make the roads hazardous? I do the same as you do, I make sure I have everything I would need before the storm, food for us and our pets, and road salt.
You're a genius.
So, what would you do if you are stuck in these road conditions driving an EV?
The exact same thing as if you're stuck with a petrol car? Why would it be any different?
EVs are actually better in the snow because their center of gravity is very low. I personally live in one of the snowiest part of Canada (Saguenay) and I never had any single problem with my Chevy Bolt, even when it's -35 degrees.
The main problem in Vancouver is that:
1) people don't have winter tires
2) people don't know how to drive in the snow
For every Canadians outside of Vancouver, the images we see in this video are pathetic because this wouldn't even be considered as a "snowstorm" anywhere else in Canada.
@PatG-xd8qn non sense. Stuck in stop and go traffic with the heat cranked for hours will leave you cold and stranded.
@@cornstar1253 right said!
@@cornstar1253 EVs don't consume much energy when they are stuck in trafic, since an electric motor doesn't consume energy if it's not moving.
Who should you believe? The guy who litterally owns an EV and drives it regularly in actual snowstorms of 30+ centimeters by -25 degrees, or someone who never ever sat in one and who's scared of less than 5 centimeters of snow on the ground????
We litterally received 60 centimeters of snow this week in Saguenay, and there's another 30 to 40 centimeters coming tomorrow... And no one is panicking over here.
@@in4chandru Go read my last comment. I said it right, not this other guy who clearly never drove an EV nor ever drove in an ACTUAL snowstorm like we get everywhere else in Canada 🤦
WINTER'S SNOW - 2024**
Over the heads of all I meet
Falls winter's life giving snow.
Upon the rooftops and the streets
Filling the sky and earth below.
Dancing, swirling, skimming along,
Like the snows of yesteryears.
There's lots of ice on the windows
As my lashes freeze over with tears.
It's so cold; it's too cold to snow
Yet the snow continues to fall.
The land is covered blanket white
As the winter winds wail their call.
There's a red-hot fire awaiting me
That will thaw out my every part.
It's not the glow of a fireplace
But the love that dwells in my heart.
By Tom Zart!
Beautiful Tom!!!😊
Send it to the CBC!!!
In Edmonton and Calgary, this little snow would just be called a Thursday, not a commute from hell.
sheet ice? I think you missed the cause wasnt snow
Calgary weather has a habit of getting warm and getting cold really fast so all the snow tends to melt then freeze over in to ice. Don't know if Edmonton has the same problem.
@@HuplesCat Yeah, just another day on the slippery frozen road on the East coast.
Or anywhere in BC other than Vancouver
What?!? That’s impossible for snow to fall in the lower mainland! It’s global warming! This must be mis/dis/malinformation! I’m offended! I need a safe space! 😂
Good one!
I bet after the carbon tax goes up it’ll snow a lot more
WE HAVE HAD WORSE SNOW FALL AND YET NO ONE KNOWS HOW TO DRIVE THROUGH THIS.MAYBE ITS THE LACK OF DRIVING SKILLS AND NOT BEING PREPARED.
The Lower Mainland is not required to have winter tires like the rest of Canada. Combine that with inexperience, steep hills and a lot of people this is what you get. I grew up in Surrey and now live in northern bc and winter driving is completely different with winter tires, colder temperatures less people and less hills. Stop comparing Vancouver with the rest of Canada, it makes no sense.
$60,000 cars, $400 tires.
First snow is always like this !! Every year !!
1:00 Nobody's got tires on...
Well that may be the problem
😂
It wasnt the snow, it was ICE! all the roads were just ice sheets.
I have snow tires and slid a few times even taking it slow.
Winter tires should be mandatory in the Lower Mainland.
Vancouverites will never learn how to drive in the snow and to put proper tires on their vehicles 😂😂😂.
The ice is more the problem...but yes we don't get the experience here as the snow is rare
@@raecross8872people the prob, no snow tires. And gov the problem, they don’t salt and de-ice in advance. Apparently we can stop ‘climate change’ from killing us but we can’t prepare for a small snowstorm a week in advance?
@@raecross8872its every year.
@TheChangNetwork not always...I've been here 23 yrs from Victoria.. yes north shore, Coquitlam
Meanwhile my customer be like "It's not that bad here, why aren't you coming out?"
I almost drove out to pick up some Fried chicken in this weather. Then I decided not to take my rear wheel drive Mustang out.
Studded tires equalize everything. My pony loves the snow.
Fried chicken yum.
less than an inch of snow and -6 degree weather considered "snowstorm" now by global news
It was -20 this morning when i got up. You know, way below the point where salt will melt ice
@@ctaylor8003This morning, yep, it's pretty cold for around here. In Surrey we hit a low of -14. But yesterday's "snowstrorm" during rush hour? I think it may have dropped to a whopping -10 at one point.
Go anywhere else in Canada and you will experience much harsher winter conditions and much more capable drivers.
The only "storm" yesterday was a pile up of cars and drivers unequipped for even the slightest variation from the norm.
This wouldve never happened if there were more bike lanes......
So then cars can occupy the bike lanes and traffic jams would be resolved?
@@WYLNXCAI think it's a joke
@@robbarber7253 yes
@@biggorilla1999 lol alr
LMAO we are doing just fine here in the province of B.C.....Well, other than Vancouver that is. The Vancouver people, see they don't think they need to buy winter tires, they enjoy the sensation of sliding all over the road, and slamming into other vehicles! It is a good way to meet people! It is a bit of a winter sport there. Bless their souls.
Nearly every winter, Vancouver gets snow.....and every time, people lose their damn minds and chaos ensues. The cycle continues.
Dear Vancouver,
Winter tires exist.
Sincerely, The rest of Canada.
You would think it would be mandatory to use winter tyres in winter like some places in Europe.
wont help on ice
Ha Ha Ha.....from Heffley Creek BC ......minus 29 today and every road up here is solid packed snow and a sheet of ice......however we have studded snow tires and 4x4 trucks so all is good......glad I left the madness of the lower mainland
The City of Burnaby muni did not have some of the main roads ready for this storm. Kingsway was an ice rink. I took me almost 2 hours to go from Kingsway and Boundary to Edmonds!
The city of Bby was salting, but the dummies in charge don't understand that salt doesn't work when it's really cold. so the salt didn't melt anything.
Glad we missed this down here in Seattle. Hope you guys get some favorable weather soon! Hang in there BC!
It wasn't like this everywhere in the Metro, i had a normal commute.
We will rebuild...😞
😅😅😅
Hey from Victoria!
Trying to keep my hummingbirds well fed!
@stevenmuranetz7909
The sun looks gorgeous though here in Saanich!!🌞!
I hope the homeless and wildlife can find refuge.😞
lets say all year around is favourable weather . then what ? its like what would you call a day ? if night never comes ?
@@JohnnyCanuck-he9ib Not even the lower mainland as Surrey/Delta area had clear roads. People who are actually from Vancouver can drive in it. It's the lot that trudeau brings in that cannot. 60% of BC's 5+million population live in the lower mainland.
Wet heavy snow is a nightmare. But people should use their heads.
people can't use what they don't have
Blaming the icy roads instead of lack of road care during a snow storm! Salt, gravel, plowing!!!!!!!!
ICBC gonna be so happy, so many insurance increases business can do with those owners
Great point ! Translink and ICBC love screwing over the public for money. Maybe some investigations need to happen!
City screwed up. It was wet snow it froze create is so much ice. Roads should’ve been salted already three days ago when we seen a little bit of snow.
Yet no snow in Langley . Nothing
It took my friend over 2 hours to get home, which is usually a 20 minute drive. Buses, at the beginning of the snow which lasted 20-30 minutes, were spinning tires. Come on Vancouver, it wasn't even an inch. I went out at the beginning, went to the bay for half an hour, came out and it was done. No more snow but it was cold.
It's the icy roads, not so much the snow.
Winter tires don’t do much when it’s ice in snow it’s good but mixed with ice you will still spin out
It's not the snow, it's the ice.
@@abelis644 it is not the snow , it is not the ice , it is the clueless drivers who drive as if it was a cold day with rain.
@@brucewmclaughlin9072 you are victim blaming, even experienced skilled drivers have trouble in snow and ice. There was a 17 car pile up, is every single person involved clueless? Or were they innocently trying to just get home from work?
Expect Winter Weather, like snow ... if you live in Canada..
Not in this part of Canada where we only have a couple days of snow many winters. But yes, should still have winter tires, or not drive in the snow without them.
All season tires arent winter tires!
The news channels on TV aren’t working with volume at all. I checked Global Edmonton and Global Calgary.
Someone teach the reporter how to pronounce kilometre! 🤣🤣🤣
Who agrees this was the worst traffic Vancouver's ever had?
For those sneering. The first rain of the Spring causes chaos in Toronto. Sheet ice is impossible unless the council salts it.
winter tires and none of this would happen...
Drivers should sue the City for not salting the roads
I was at my buddy's pad in the Hastings Sunrise area, where all the traffic calming barriers are in place to prevent through traffic. Suburbanites getting off Hastings to beat the gridlock were in for a rude awakening! They got directed away from where they thought they could be.
Funny AF.
We live in CANADA! Just stop this nonsense reporting. It's called winter unless half your staff haven't experienced a Canadian winter before
The rest of the country scoffs at Vancouver, Victoria and Toronto. A bit of snow and they are done.
Global News needs to understand that winter weather can be inconvenient. That is not "news"! Journalists and news editors at Global News might do some "journalism"? Seldom seen here!
Crazy, it's almost like it's January...crazy idea would be to put winter tires on your vehicle, or simply DON'T drive if you don't have 'em
That's no a snowstorm! BC Vancouver drivers not always use winter tires and got no idea how to derive in snow.
Winter tires should be mandatory for ALL vehicles across BC and this wouldn't be happening. Every municipality should also be held accountable for the poor road service and they had time to prepare.
Folks in Vancouver aren't used to driving in snow and ice.
Up here in Canada the road crews check the weather reports and will do a proactive action by spraying the soon to be icy roads with calcium chloride mixed with water. Too bad the lower mainland thinks that anything north of Kelowna is wilderness, they could maybe pick up a trick or two.
Salt trucks were on the roads all over the vancouver area. What you don't understand is that salt doesn't work when it's really cold. It got that cold in vancouver.
Same story every year, every time snow hits Vancouver. You know it's going to happen at some point in the winter, yet everyone is caught off guard. Perhaps people aren't watching the weather or MSM and rely on other sources to get the weather, which are also failing them.
The problem isn't snow, it's the ice.
Can't do much on frozen, black ice hills but stay home.
@@abelis644 how can people stay home when they have to go to work?
i sure don't miss the hilly narrow roads and gridlock traffic in BC 😖
It's an old memory from the late 70s; standing on the front porch, Coffee Mug in hand, Listening to a at least Two Dozen Cars crashing into other Cars and Every Obstacle imaginable on a Cold, clear Morning. Vancouverites Showing off their Amazing and Complete inability to Drive on even a tiny amount of Snow or Ice. 🤐
We got nothing out here in Mission. It was sunny, all the roads are dry.
Time for mandatory snow tires in the Lower Mainland....including buses and trucks!!!
All buses in BC just got brand new winter tires, top of the line and they still slide off the roads. Maybe it should be mandatory for the city to salt the roads....
Insurance companies in metro Vancouver will receive lots and lots of claims in the next few days.
In norther Italy you must have winter tyres on or chains in the boot during winter , compulsory , even if it is sunny and 20 degrees . I can't believe they don't have such laws in Canada. Bizarre !
It says this video is 3 hours old! OK then, WHERE'S THE SNOW YOU'RE REPORTING ON?!? NO SNOW LAST NIGHT OR TODAY 20 KILOMETERS AWAY IN SURREY B.C.!
This would never of happened without Justin Trudeau's global cooling carbon tax. Thank's Justin.
If unironic, this is one of the dumbest comments ever.
@@Xylophone8 Are you suggesting Justin's carbon tax doesn't work?
You are probably like Trump and Pierre lies
Thanks your neighbor Alberta and Saskatwechan for fossil fuels destroying the planet .
So you want to politicize a snowstorm? Just because you work at a gas station doesn't mean you need to beat the drum for big oil. There's other jobs out there. You'll be ok. 😂🤣
Every year people of Vancouver do not earn that not driving on a frozen hills, will save them from a costly repairs. Also city of Vancouver should pay for repairs of some of damages caused by uncleanness of the snow and ice formed, since every year same happens.
Declare mandatory snow tires as they did in Quebec, BC you will solve 70% of issues.
not a snowstorm, people not prepared. incorrect tires and dummies relying on the vehicle's technology.
The headline "Snow causes traffic mayhem" is false. It should read "Drivers not driving according to the road conditions and likely don't have winter tires on".
How come the rest of bc who gets more snow doesn’t have a problem with the snow and ice? It’s -23 right now where I am.
Because they never salt the roads and are prepared .
Because everyone has proper snow tires, and they use sand. Vancouver doesn't use those two things.
“Got it bad ” 😂 what a joke. There was a couple hours of light snow. The city didn’t do their job as usual.
VANCOUVER DRIVERS AT THE BEST OF TIMES :😬😬😬
VANCOUVER DRIVERS AFTER 1CM OF SNOW:🤡🤡🤡
BECAUSE IT SNOWS ONCE EVERY 10 YEARS, I GUESS NO DRIVER FEELS THEY NEED PROPER(WINTER) TIRES AND THIS IS WHY ALL THOSE PREVENTABLE HIGH-SPEED CRASHES!!!
at least we can ski now
As far as I could tell there was no salt cut down
Why is it that winter tires are not enforced? every year is the same
People need to learn how to drive in the snow tires are only part of the problem
Do they put on winter tires there?
no
17 car pile up in Richmond.........
Tires dont mean jack if youre an awful driver
Winter tires or stay home! How hard is it to understand???
This city is never prepared for winter season 😮
I keep telling everyone that they need to stud your winters!