Best reporter in Canada! Cheers for your hard work. 👍👍 Glad to see the progress and was amazed at the sheer power by the sound of those boulders rolling around underwater.
because he's just showing what's really being done, and not the usual media fluff. news hours just push the government's agenda and censors the real events. and farnworth follows trudeau's footsteps with his non-answering of questions. i want just one of the reporters who get a question, to start by telling him all they want is a yes or no answer, not a side-stepping rambling that's just distraction to forget what was asked. even better, tell him no words at all, keep his lips sealed, and blink once for yes, twice for no.
@@zzz7zzz9 Why care about all the reporters flim-flam at all? What difference does it make how a politician answers a question from some corporate hack? You do understand they are pushing the agenda of the people who pay them, right? There is no such thing as a unbiased reporter, they have the bias of whoever signs their paycheque. If I were a politician I wouldn't tell them the time of day.
Imagine how surreal it is to literally walk on the legendary Coquihalla Highway! Looks like these folks are dead set on getting it fixed even if the repairs are temporary...nice to see these daily uploads SteBros!
@@bradjames6748 I think they are doing a pretty permanent job on this one. They may not pave it until spring/summer. Other bridges where the part of the deck is missing might be more temporary. A more permanent job, would be a redesign to lengthen the bridge so more water can flow through without taking out footings and approaches.
Using your own gear to help the boys out and get this road open again! you deserve more exposure and credit, thanks for all the things u do!! stay safe brother
I can't help but notice the beautiful mountains behind you while your filming the highway reconstruction. I'm glad construction is in full swing. Best wishes from New York!
Diesel isn’t cheap and that old workhorse Case 580 of yours is a bit of a guzzler I bet! Hoping you’ve saved your fuel receipts and will submit them to MOTH! Thank you for your efforts!!
Thanks so much for these great videos! I’m an environmental consultant and I typically work on civil construction sites. It’s interesting to see how things are done differently in an emergency compared to normal procedures. The Kiewit crews are working efficiently to do the temporary reinstatement of that bridge! Hope you are all well.
Not sure why but watching you guys helping out and thinking ahead and making things easier for the other guys really touched my heart kinda welled up hard to figure out what makes a crusty old man feel those kinda feelings doesn’t happen often but it’s the brothers helping brothers I guess thank you for that
I thought it was funny to see strolling with a baby up the entrance ramp to the Cog (btw, the wrong way too). Never in a million years will that happen if the Cog were open. Thank for your updates.
Awesome video! We are hitting the road for Hope tomorrow first light to our home on wheels close to Yale now that the Hwy 1 is clear!!!!!👍 Hwy 7is usually the route we travel but it’s still under construction 🚧 the Sunday of the slides on that stretch of Hwy happened 1/2 hr after we drove past and it was a hairy drive then ! Glad to see so much progress in the making! Thanks Jeremiah and rest of the gang bringing us the current up dates! Stay safe please , see you all soon !👍
Jer, our only real meaningful purpose in life is to help others. The part where you and your Dad were using your own CASE backhoe to contribute in this recovery, is what it truly means to help others!
Thanks for these pictures. I love it. reminds me of being 5 years old and mesmerized by big machinery. Now I want to see how they fix it all. Especially interested in how they fix Jackass Canyon and highway 8. Show us as much as you can.
thank god there fixing this road as fast they can i work in east van and we are so low on supplies due to this one road you guys are great doing a good job thanks👍🍁
When they built the highway, they were in a race against time to open it for Expo 86. Some shortcuts can end up costing billions of dollars decades later. The flaw is explained at 2:55.
Engineered, fractured rock.......which is what rip rap is, was not nearly as common 35 years ago as it is today. Now nearly every pit has various sizes of fractured rock. I never use pit run which is what got washed away on the Coq.
Im glad you are documenting all of this, it’s history, and your coverage is excellent. I’ve heard big boulders rolling in a flooded stream, it really is an eerie sound. The power of water is amazing.
Thanks for the post, I am surprised there isn’t more news coverage. Eastern Canada needs to understand what is going on, most have no idea if the depth of the devastation. There is an increase shortage of a lot of products that retailers normally have, there are so many empty shelves tight now which only going to get worse.
this is amazing im from Ontario all the work you do is truley amazing hope you get lots of thank you'd for work well done often think of everyone all be safe cheers to to you all how is Jamie Davis doing please like your reports
Wow! Excellent, encouraging, progress. Fun to watch HOW this is being done, how they intend to deal with high waters with big boulders. Makes me wonder if these aren't some of the best in the world when it comes to road building. Make it LONGER. This is too much fun to see it come to an end. Give us maybe a short version and an extended version. Use all of your throwaway material in the long version. Saves me from watching this 3x just to get a full idea of how well this is happening. damn, you and your camera man are good!
It looks like they're replacing the washed out ground. A better (more expensive?) solution would be to build the bridge as a bridge over the wider gap created by the river when it flooded. That way the river will have a place to go before it starts eroding the ground supporting the roadway. Here, we are seeing a new retaining wall of gravity blocks to hold back a new pile of gravel or concrete, that replaces the soil that had previously washed out. This is to support the new roadway. Which it will until the next flood. In all of these photos and videos of washed out highways in the BC mountains, I am seeing roads that collapsed when the ground beneath them disappeared. When the River Gods want a wider channel, they get themselves a wider channel. Fun fact about gravity blocks: They're particles. Big heavy particles, but particles nevertheless. What happens when we get a Richter Scale 7 or 8 or even a 9 full Cascadia Rip special? Well, when the earth accelerates downward faster than 32 feet per second per second, they SEPARATE. There is something to be said for building a retaining wall by casting concrete over a thick closely spaced lattice of inch diameter rebar. Properly anchored into the bedrock.
Eventually yes but right now, no time. This road is essential to Canada's economy and needs to be open yesterday. No doubt an engineered solution will be on the cards for later.
@@marvindebot3264 Canada managed to live without this road until 1986. Bill Bennett wanted to open it in time for Expo 86. So we had a 2 year construction project as an example of what government can do when it gets out of its own way. Looks like they didn't build the bridges long enough and relied on too much earth supported roadway next to a raging river to hold the costs down and accelerate the construction schedule. Now we think that these big pieces of rip rap will protect the nice new gravity block retaining wall. 2 foot rip rap that wasn't used in the 1980's when building the original highway. That chuckling you can hear is from Nick Zenter, Randall Carlson, and me.
@@betty5064 Quarrying and hauling them is not free. The River Gods like to roll them and make them nice and round and smooth. Once they are out of the way, the River Gods can start working on that gravity block wall.
I am reminded of Canol Road. At Every Bridge the stream had redirected itself so as to leave the bridge out standing in a field by itself. Intact but useful only as overhead shelter.
Well they did build this highway in 20 months, so these repairs, in todays day and age, should be a cakewalk. Hopefully it's done in good time and we can get back to normal.
laughs i wached some news cast on here about the floods ect ect. any way i commented i would much rather wach you than the news commentaries, because you are a way better commontary person than theirs lol. at least you show and tell us whats going on rather than some one repeating the same sorta we do not know whats going on so we will repeat things we all ready said sort of formate. keep it up love your up dates they are great, psssssst can we have a couple longer ones to see more i live in calgary and am a ex over the road driver and been through there a few times, ya know a few times so i know the places you talk about
Oddly related topic, but bear with me Was watching a video/documentary on the future effects of global warming if left unchecked and one effect really struck me as odd. The agrarian zone is that sweet spot geologically where grains can achieve much better growth due to optimal light, water, and seasonal characteristics. They stated these regions would shift considerably northwards (or south for the Southern Hemisphere) over a two or three century period. I’m wondering if what we are seeing with the flooding over the past decade or so is the beginning of that change. Only time will tell, but it is something of note.
Amazing job. My only workplace safety comment is, What's up with someone pushing a stroller through the debris & being on that work site next to the dump truck?
Action packed AGAIN! There has to be a dozen or so guys standing around posing whilst you guys are chipping in with your own equipment ,time, and fuel if they has more workers and less posing that would speed things up. Jus sayin.
YOU ARE ENTERTAINING ALIENS from another PLANET. YES, THEY ARE WATCHING MY TV SCREEN on the COMPUTER. Be on your BEST BEHAVIOR ! Your doing a GREAT JOB.
I hope your getting paid by the highway department to do all this work with you machines . I would never do work for the government without a hefty contract
Coquihalla Highway gone? This should be investigated by engineer's who have nothing to do wth government. Highly suspicious This happened. Considering how it was built!
