{"id":41450,"date":"2015-02-08T19:56:49","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T11:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=41450"},"modified":"2015-02-08T19:56:49","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T11:56:49","slug":"blackouts-in-kitimat-and-terrace-after-small-b-c-towns-buried-in-heavy-snowfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/02\/08\/blackouts-in-kitimat-and-terrace-after-small-b-c-towns-buried-in-heavy-snowfall\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackouts in Kitimat and Terrace after small B.C. towns buried in heavy snowfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_34133\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34133\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_180605156.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34133\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_180605156.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_180605156.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_180605156-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_180605156-900x675.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>KITIMAT, B.C. &#8212; The northern British Columbia communities of Kitimat and Terrace are buried in nearly two metres of snow, as a stormy Pineapple Express weather system continues to pummel the B.C. coast.<\/p>\n<p>About 168 centimetres of snow fell on Kitimat between 4 p.m. Thursday and 4 a.m. Saturday, while 159 centimetres fell in Terrace during the same time period.<\/p>\n<p>More than 1,600 BC Hydro customers were without power as of Saturday afternoon, while many businesses were shuttered and residents were warned to stay home.<\/p>\n<p>The District of Kitimat brought in private contractors to help with road clearing and its Emergency Operations Centre was opened Friday night in order to organize extra equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Environment Canada says the heavy snowfall just fell short of breaking 24-hour records, as 109 cm fell in Kitimat over 24 hours and the previous record was 112.3 centimetres on Feb. 18, 1972.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the federal agency issued a rainfall warning for Howe Sound, with between 30 to 50 millimetres of rain expected to drench the south coast Saturday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KITIMAT, B.C. &#8212; The northern British Columbia communities of Kitimat and Terrace are buried in nearly two metres of snow, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":34133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}