Great news for travellers to the Island, #PortAlberni, #Tofino #Ucluelet, and the West Coast!
#Tseshaht 
#Hupacasath 
and #Huuayaht 
are partnering to build the first new hotel built in Port Alberni since the Best Western Barclay in 1980!
It'll be a Wyndham microtel similar to the one just north of Ladysmith with a small pool and waterslide. It will be located next to #BCHwy4 at Walmart.
Huh… ICBC (the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia - BC's public auto-insurance corp) sent out an email explaining the rules and best practices for using a roundabout.
We're getting a new roundabout on an important intersection of Highway 4 in #PortAlberni. They're building it now at Hwy4 and Beaver Creek Road. Quite the project!
This is a handy primer/reminder on how to use roundabouts. Most people around here seem either clueless or terrified of them. lol
A rare glass calm day on Cameron Lake. The warm 10°C air turning to fog over the cool water.
Snowing on Christmas Day on Vancouver Island doesn’t happen very often. 😃
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Current picture in Coombs.
There is a little bit of snow on the side of the road at Taylor River near Sutton Pass. Be careful today! Doesn’t look like any other cameras have snow on the South Island but that could change.
You can find local webcams and drivebc cams quickly on the webcam page at Alberniweather.
#bcstorm #drivebc #bcsnow #portalberni #bchwy4
https://www.alberniweather.ca/webcams/
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From last night. Looking over Kennedy Lake toward the Pacific on our way home.
Saw #WesleyRidge this morning just before 5AM. shocking.
Nearly one half of the entire north side of the lake has been consumed from Beaufort Park to a few hundred metres from the east end.
Both ends of the fire are active. It is from the lake to the top of the ridge.
I saw a tree “candle” on the west front of the fire as I drove by. 😢 Video is west side of the fire. No stopping on the #bchwy4. Video doesn’t do it justice, was very bright active.
Now 60 hectares and there is an evacuation order for Cameron Lake properties as well as an evacuation alert for Little Qualicum Falls campground (which, if the fire gets there, will also put the highway at risk as well as a number of homes)
There are a number of resources now fighting the fire.
Updates: https://wildfiresituation.nrs.gov.bc.ca/incidents?fireYear=2025&incidentNumber=V71145&source=map
Air Quality is fluctuating: map here https://www.alberniweather.ca/current-air-quality-readings-in-port-alberni/
#PortAlberni #WesleyRidge #bchwy4 #PortAlberni #bcpoli #bcwildfire #bchwy4
Now 40ha and "burning aggressively" in "difficult to access terrain."
but
"No imminent threat to values" (what about the railway trestles?)
They have not listed any BCWF resources being assigned other than for assessment.
Coombs and Dashwood Fire Dpt are monitoring.
Air Quality has worsened considerably in #PortAlberni the smell of fire is in the air.
#WesleyRidge #bchwy4 #PortAlberni #bcpoli #bcwildfire #bchwy4
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