Our city is really off when it comes to weather. This winter we hardly had any snow but last year, we had snow in June. It’s definitely off-season to see snow in June especially in Vancouver.
Daily, I take this route going home until one day, our bus made a detour away from the train station. The traffic was unbelievable due to a whole city block turned into winter wonderland. Normally, this is what it looks like.
This is just wild!
Boulders (made of styrofoam, light as a feather), rocks, tree trunks with moss (made of plastic), snowbanks (crushed ice), live trees and flowing river to complete nature in the city.
Gallons of water came pouring out to “flood” this area to create a scene “River in the City”.
This is the making of a commercial scene for Jeep Cherokee. They even threw in two domesticated wolves in the scene.
Now, back to reality. Panhandlers in the city. This is their spot.
Photographs and Memories 
What fun to see the ad in the making.
I must admit it was a traffic/pedestrian stopper. Very entertaining.
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In June! 😕
June 2014 🙂
How exciting to see all the preparations for that commercial – it’s amazing how realistic it looks! 🙂
It was amazing how the film industry can do and pique our imagination. The moral of the story, don’t believe anything you see on TV or Movies. 🙂
Isn’t THAT the truth, lol! 😉
That’s unbelievable… All this work, just for a spot. I am glad you could take this pictures and share them.
Thank you. a 30 second clip cost thousands or maybe millions of dollars. The power of media.
Crazy!
It was fun!
No way! I thought it was bad for us to get snow in May on some year (not this year, I think) . Having snow in June is worse! On the other hand May or June snow is nice because we know it would melt soon, right?
Yes way, Helen. Anything is possible even a fake snow in June.
There were so many bad jokes going around how downtown had flooded and snowed etc lol but I saw them do all the CGI test runs on the parking lot across from rogers arena 🙂
I missed the test run. I run away before the crowd got even bigger. It was chaotic at the time for a week of prep and filming. 😛
Tsk you could of seen all the test runs 😊
Love this concept, pity we didn’t get a test drive like that before we bought our Jeep!
I hope your Jeep is still running. The thing though, we do not need a Jeep in Vancouver since it’s a tiny space. Only in the outback.
We have our Jeep to tow a camper-trailer, it certainly wouldn’t be our choice for around town. In a few weeks we’ll be taking off “outback”.