Stanley Park temporarily closed after bomb cyclone hits B.C. coast

Tuesday night’s bomb cyclone has temporarily closed Stanley Park.

The Vancouver Park Board said the closure was needed for crews to implicit information inspections and wide downed trees from roads and trails.

The committee said the parkland should afloat reopen connected Wednesday afternoon.

For anyone visiting the seawall, they are asked to beryllium cautious owed to the precocious tides and wind.

According to documents obtained by Global News, astir 8 trees person travel down successful the park, with 7 obstructing roadways.

Tuesday’s aggravated low-pressure strategy brought precise beardown winds to B.C., starring to downed trees, powerfulness outages and ferry cancellations.

At Vancouver International Airport, upwind gusts peaked astatine 78 km/h.

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In November of 2023, the Vancouver Park Board estimated that up to 160,000 trees that had been killed successful Stanley Park by a hemlock looper moth infestation would request to beryllium chopped down for information reasons.

However, successful October, the City of Vancouver importantly reduced its estimation of the fig of trees that volition request to beryllium removed from Stanley Park.

“So we are suspecting we volition apt beryllium removing anyplace from 20,000 to 30,000 successful the park, lone those that are causing the astir hazard to nationalist safety,” Joel McLeod, subordinate manager of municipality forestry, told Global News successful October.

“We volition beryllium leaving the bulk of the trees that are dead, particularly those that are retired of high-use areas.”

It is not known astatine this clip if the trees that came down during the tempest were slated for removal.