What do you do when all hell breaks loose on your normally blissful hometown main street and clear and present danger appears ready to pounce from any and all angles?
If you’re North Vancouver business owner/photo bug Mark Teasedale, you grab your camera and start shooting. Teasedale found himself in the right place at the wrong time earlier this month as Snowmaggedon 2.0 hit Lower Lonsdale hard, sending vehicles careening down the steep street past buses stuck spinning their tires.
As cars slid out of control around him, Teasedale parked his own SUV just in time for the fun to really start. He described what happened next in a note to the North Shore News.
“As soon as I pulled over a car hit the curb with a loud crunch. Her front tired deflated and was kind of taco’ed on the curb. Then a semi did a partial jackknife right by me as I protected myself behind a street lamp.”
Yikes! Death by semi avoided, Teasedale then headed a block farther down the street to see the aftermath of a bus rear-ending a car, along with eight other TransLink buses flashing Not in Service signs.
“At this point I figured I would wait for the salt trucks before attempting to move my car,” said Teasedale. “As I walked back to my car I saw more people getting stuck or just sliding in directions they did not want to go.”
Then came the fuel truck. Uh oh.
“When I saw a fuel truck trying to navigate the hill I have to admit I stayed well back from the street,” he said. Luckily the fuel truck made it down safely, and Teasedale was alive and well and ready for his next North Shore adventure.
You can find more photos here.
