There’s not much to be done if Mother Nature decides she wants to throw a tantrum.

“We can’t really prepare,” said Dana Adams in Queen Charlotte.

Adams is the owner of Queen B’s, a diner popular with locals in Queen Charlotte, which is situated on B.C.’s northern coastal region where a post-tropical storm is expected to hit this Thanksgiving weekend.

The storm comes from the remnants of Hurricane Oho, which is currently headed toward the B.C. coast

On Wednesday, Oho was travelling northeast away from Hawaii through the Pacific Ocean, carrying gusts of up 175 kilometres per hour. The hurricane is forecast to become an extra-tropical storm by the time it reaches B.C.’s coast on Friday around 2 a.m., according to data from the U.S. National Hurricane Centre.

The storm will likely hit hardest in the region between Haida Gwaii and Prince Rupert, with sustained winds of 80 to 100 km/h and gusts upwards of 120 km/h, said Matt MacDonald, a warning preparedness meteorologist with Environment Canada.

Between Thursday and Monday, coastal regions between Bella Coola and Prince Rupert will experience rainfall between 150 and 200 millimetres, and adjacent mountain regions will get up to 300 mm, MacDonald said.

“It’s not only the remnants of Oho, but there are going to be two or three successive storms that are going to hit the north coast over a four-day period,” he said.

“It’s going to be the first blast of wind which will likely knock some branches and debris into the river system, and then the added heavy rain,” with potential for localized flooding, debris flows and landslides, he added.

In Queen Charlotte, Adams said locals are used to the storms by now, as a tradeoff of living right on the water. Her diner was scheduled to remain open throughout the week.

“It’s kind of a bummer — we have a freighter coming in this weekend from Prince Rupert with all of our food for the cafe, so it’s about $1,500 worth of groceries,” she said of her bi-weekly shipment of food for the cafe.

“We’re kind of used to it but we hope our food gets in.”

The Lower Mainland can expect between 60 to 100 mm of rain between Thursday and Monday, and winds around 20 to 40 km/h.

MacDonald said the eastern Pacific Ocean has had a “particularly active” hurricane season this fall due to warm waters brought by “The Blob” — a large mass of warm water — and a strong El Niño.

“Every fall, on the west coast of Canada, we see remnants of either tropical storms or hurricanes, and various amounts will actually make their way to us, but in this case there’s a good shot of precipitation and winds being delivered by Hurricane Oho,” he said.

Environment Canada sent notifications to emergency managers along the West Coast on Tuesday.

B.C. Ferries spokesman Darin Guenette said the firm is keeping a close eye on the storm but isn’t yet planning to change or cancel any sailings based on forecasts.

B.C. Hydro’s field operations team is also getting constant weather updates and if the storm materializes as forecasted, crews will be deployed ahead of time to bolster service in northern B.C., spokeswoman Simi Heer said.

No hurricane-strength storm has reached B.C. since 1962, when the remnants of Typhoon Freda blasted Vancouver with winds up to 125 km/h and killed five people, caused $10 million in damage and knocked down 3,000 trees in Stanley Park.

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