For some reason, everyone loves talking about the weather. It’s a great “go-to” conversation when you’re chatting with relatives who don’t live in the area. And right now, the weather is a huge topic of conversation, with the Olympics on the horizon.
January is proving to be unusually mild for us here on the South Coast. Vancouver gets lots of rain every single year. But our current “wet spell” is a little strange. Especially given the fact we’re hosting the Winter Olympics in just over a week. This “winter weather” certainly isn’t what most of the world is used to seeing!
Hard to believe crews are having to truck in snow from Manning Park, in order to keep the slopes nice and white on Cypress for the Olympics!
And one of the main centres for the Olympics is closed today. But it’s not because of the weather. The Robson Media Centre in downtown Vancouver has been shut down because of a flood last night! A pipe burst on the main floor and flooded the centre. So crews are spending today mopping everything up and hope to have the centre up and running once again by tomorrow morning. Luckily, no equipment was damaged!
By the way, we’ll be doing Breakfast Television live from Robson Square each morning during the Olympics. Dawn and Riaz will be there. And I’ll be doing BT live from Whistler each morning. We’re excited about the next few weeks! And we hope you are, too!
Have a great day!
K