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Hey guys, I don't think I've seen anybody post about this on Team Liquid, but recently in Calgary, Alberta (and Canada in general around there) there were record breaking floods that displaced nearly if not more than a hundred thousand people from their homes. The floods broke records that were expected to stand for more than a century - they came out of basically nowhere, and obviously there was a ton of damage (see: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/the-canadian-press/130621/alberta-flood-levels-wash-away-records-expected-stand-centur)
So my parents recently moved to Canada and they were part of the flood, although they thankfully weren't part of the people who were misplaced... as close as it was. There is a sidewalk next to the river that basically doubles as a levy separating another neighborhood from the river. During the flood, it eroded over halfway; another five feet would have essentially washed away another entire neighborhood. People were without power for 4+ days (going on 5 right now, some places are still gone), and if you want more information see here: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/story/2013/06/24/calgary-flooding-downtown-water-nenshi-status.html or just google calgary flooding.
Destroyed sidewalk (the picture doesn't want to format correctly)
^ the sidewalk in my parents' neighborhood.
Anyways, the point of all this being that NCIX and the red cross are running a donation promo. If you use NCIX, you can donate NCIX points and they will match your donation. On the other hand, if you don't, you can go to the red cross in the link and donate as well straight to them.
NCIX/Red Cross donation site!
Note that it defaults to Canada (for the red cross), if you are from another country make sure to change it.
Thank you so much Team Liquid and the community! If even one of you donates this will have been a success  if you can't donate, please send your thoughts/prayers/chants/ritual sacrifices/drone sacrifices/MULEs to Canada to help out!
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Did you try searching "flood"?
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Sorry I didn't, but then again this is a blog, and it also affected my family.
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The term 100 year flood doesn't mean that the 2005 flood was intended to stand for a century as a record flood.
100 50 or 20 year floods are meant to describe the probability of a flood occurring in any one year. As we all know probabilities and stats are not significant over such a short period.
Alberta has had a long history of not taking serious natural disasters seriously, there was a report written in 2007 that recommended that the province increases restrictions on developing flood plain and it was delayed by members of the government for nearly 5 years before being published.
This is a serious disaster and even in Edmonton we are seeing the effects (capital of the province and 400+KM away) with our main river at the highest in nearly a decade and low lying parks being flooded. The Provincial government has also committed 1 billion dollars to flood relief and rebuilding; although that is just a beginning with many communities being cut-off with road washouts and major highways closed.
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Yeah, you'll have to excuse my use of the term if it was obviously wrong. I don't live in Alberta, only my parents do, and I only spoke with them briefly about that term so my general terminology might be woefully lacking  hopefully they handle this one a bit better then, and this can raise awareness for at least one or two more people.
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