🧵 A year after BC's catastrophic flood in a former lake, First Nations say #Canada and BC must do more to honor UN pledges to incorporate #Indigenous world views. BC's flood management strategy "needs a hard reset," said Tyrone McNeil My story in The Narwhal thenarwhal.ca/bc-flooding-at…

Policies to build back to previous standards ignore the fragility of that system, said Tamsin, despite having just seen it fail. “They’re not taking a risk lens to it. They just assume that engineers can get this right,” said Lyle, who is an engineer.

The 10 Golden Rules have been my go to since they were published. These golden rules are also just plain common sense. My quote below, highlights a progression in frustration, that common sense is being trumped by doing what we know. #bcfloods #bcpoli #DRR

We are huge advocates for risk reduction...which is freaking hard. Avoidance of an increase of risk is much easier. Increasing risk through land use change, as is threatened in Ontario, is plain foolish. #ONFlood #bcfloods #bcpoli #onpoli #DRR

In the event of disasters like #BCFloods, status quo recovery often aims to restore the pre-disaster state. But rather than spending more $ trying to out-engineer nature until the next disaster, experts are saying that there's a better way. Emergency Planning Secretariat thenarwhal.ca/bc-flooding-at…

We have definitely made some foolish decisions when it comes to #flood and #disaster. What we need to do now is own these mistakes and course correct. Repeating these mistakes will create repeat disasters (and cause me to use stronger language than "stupid"). #bcfloods #bcpoli

Ecological damage, especially to water quality has huge implications for our fishey, furey, and scaley cousins. It also impacts humans. Holistic metrics, rather than just $ costs, must be used to evaluate #flood mitigation plans for #sumaslake. #bcfloods cbc.ca/news/canada/br…

The total cost of last year's #climate disasters in BC is still being counted, but probably safe to say it is in the $10Bn range. Although Federal adaptation funding is welcomed - it pales in comparison to future liabilities. We can do better. #bcfloods

On a personal note, super excited to have a fellow female engineer on this very important file. I may be biased 😉, but the field of #disasterrisk benefits greatly from the mix of science and empathy that strong, smart women bring to it. Bowinn Ma

“I think it’ll become very quickly obvious, a penny spent now is going to be worth billions down the road (in savings),” said Tamsin Lyle, who heads Ebbwater

Exciting and hopeful times. Here’s hoping this new ministry and new minister (Bowinn Ma) can create accountability and leadership on this super important, yet complex, file. #DRR #BCFloods #SendaiPriority3

Premier David Eby creates new ministry to make sure B.C. is 'ready to go' for next disaster, via The Vancouver Sun vancouversun.com/news/local-new…

#bcflood and #disaster policy wonks (we know who all 3 of you are 😉). We've just posted our ever-popular??? mandate letter review. Check it out: linkedin.com/posts/ebbwater… #bcpoli #DRR #SendaiPriority2 Bowinn Ma

I think this may be the most « entertaining » media I’ve been interviewed for in the last year. Definitely curious to see how it comes together! #bcflood #bcpoli #drr (wrapped in high intensity sights and sounds).

There's an important story about #flood #risk and the choices we've made in the past in this documentary airing tonight. Also a good opportunity to giggle as the ideas of normally sedate science professionals (Carie-Ann Lau Simon Donner and myself) get seriously dramatized 😉

Well that was an interesting experience! Thanks Highway Thru Hell for the work on #afterthestorm . Tamsin and Ebbwater joined a few BGC Engineering Inc. folks to watch us in episode one.

Now streaming! Settle in for a wild ride with a side of #flood science and policy. Watch out for glimpses of Ebbwater principal Tamsin and amazing collaborators Tyrone McNeil and Carie-Ann Lau. ctv.ca/shows/after-th…

Great episode of #thedaily with ⁦⁦Christopher Flavelle⁩ . There are so many parallels, albeit at a larger scale, between the obstacles to better approaches to #flood and #drought in California and BC’s Fraser Valley. Listen!! #bcflood #drr podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the…

Looking forward to sharing some perspectives on managing our #uncertaintyexplosion in #flood #risk.

It's baaaack. We are on day 2 of posting forecasted #FraserRiver water levels on our interactive map. Flows and levels heading up; 5.8 m at Mission, so not in true danger territory. ebbwater.ca/fraser-river-w… #flood #bcflood