Photo from space of storm damage

The light brown you see in the centre of the image and elsewhere is precious, impossible-to-replace topsoil.

Shared by Canadian astronaut, Chris Hatfield.

B.C.’s historic flood seen in photo from space | Globalnews.ca

 

It wasn't clear to me what I was seeing when I first saw that, but someone showed it with Vancouver circled. That's the Salish Sea, Vancouver an oval area little smaller than the light brown area and to the right of it, north of the bulge in the mud and above the prominent east-west muddy Fraser River, with Richmond below Vancouver, also adjacent to the light brown area; Vancouver Island is on the left. The muddy light brown vertical bit is Howe Sound, with Squamish to the north of it.

 

Yes absolutely accurate id Wendy

And @Margot you can see Russell Farms soil rushing out to ocean on the Vanc Island side of image

the lower left-hand mud is Cowichan River just south of Duncan BC

i would suggest that the upper mid-left is Chemainus River (Russell Farms area)

oh my goodness - Howe Sound was brown silt water floating on the saltwater

So many rivers and creeks flow in to this fjord starting obviously at squamish bc

i tried to take a pic from around Langdale ferry terminal — it’s hard to see in this iPhone image — thé plume if silt goes almost to Gambier Island — and there’s a rainbow on the left side of pic

 

For those curious where the border is on that map, the handle-looking thing at the south end of the land just east of the large mud area is Tsawwassen, Canada, with the darker green knob at the tip being Point Roberts, which is below the US boundary, not reachable by land from the rest of the US except through Canada. To the east, the borderline seems to be the bottom line of trees (thinner line) going east-west. To the west, the border drops south to go through the islands and then around Vancouver Island.

 

Somebody found gold upstream?

 

Gold measured in board feet.

 

I was seeing priceless topsoil value washed to sea in the satellite photo

one point that a fisheries scientist raised @Sulev is that while our declining salmon populations (eaten by so many other fauna for natural survival) need water in autumn rivers and streams for spawning process —- this sudden solid rain may have washed away lots of the eggs and male input (I think called milk (milt?) tho pls correct me) awaiting the hatching .