Winter ice storms damaged Metro Vancouver, Fraser Valley regional parks

Winter storms that covered the Fraser Valley in a thick layer of ice in December and February wreaked havoc in the region’s parks, causing thousands of dollars in damage.
Freezing rain, snow and ice left thousands of people without power and turned roads from Langley to Hope into sheets of ice on Dec. 30 and into the new year. Then, last month, snow, freezing rain and rain hit the Valley again, with the worst of it in Chilliwack and Abbotsford.
“It was just chaos from downed trees, a