Mt. Nusatsum

Mt. Nusatsum

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Mould

In every flooding event when you watch on the news and hear first hand experience from the people affected they always talk about the mildew and mould.  It's why you have to get drywall pulled off and walls opened up as soon as you can after a flood.  It gets disgusting when it really starts growing and getting ahead.  That's the phase many people are in now in the Bella Coola Valley and time is not on our side.  We are going into cooler and more wetter conditions and not the best for drying. People are trying hard to get to the stage where drying can start on buildings after the Great Flood of 2010.


It's not just drywall and insulation that mildews and moulds though, pretty much everything seems to get it.  This piano that is in the back of my truck heading for the dump breaks my heart.  A beautiful piece of wood craftsmanship is how I look at, but to the owner it was piece of history going back to childhood.  It was under six feet of water for 12 hours and is completely and totally ruined.  I have to regrettably push it into the scrap heap for them this week.  

Bella Coola didn't get the big windstorm that some areas on the coast received last night.  We just got a fairly heavy rain all night until midday today, adding about 30 mm of rain to our wet basins, but that's a pretty normal fall rain for these parts.  It was cool during most of the rain, with fresh snow getting down lower on the mountains this evening. Grizzly

Mount Nusatsum this evening

4 comments:

  1. Can you give an update on the condition of the road over the Heckman Pass section? Did the road get washed out on the switchbacks? I'm hoping it just needs repair and not a major rebuilding effort. I haven't read any account of this section of road or seen any photos. Any information would be appreciated.

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  2. Hi Grizzly,
    I find your blog to be most interesting and informative and I have enjoyed reading it. Especially since I own a house in the Bella Coola townsite. It's good to find out how the weather is and the everyday events and things that happen. I will retire there in a couple of years. I am amazed at the resiliency of the people and how they look out for one another. Something that is missing in larger cities and why I chose to go back to a smaller community. Thanks for existing.

    Ida

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  3. WOW! the piano. Tell me please someone saved/salvaged the ivory keys.

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  4. I checked the piano keys on the ivory issue and they were all one piece. Apparently ivory keys were always two piece. We needed three replacement ivories for our own piano. Grizzly

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