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Being from Calgary myself, I'd like to bring some light about the floods that literally came out of nowhere in Calgary. Heavy rain started yesterday, after a rain filled June. As I was going to work yesterday, one major highway lane was closed down, after I got home...
Announcements were made for: Over 100,000 people are being evacuated, all schools and universities shut down, all transit shut down, Calgary and many parts of Alberta are in State-of-emergency. Lots of volunteer sandbagging etc being done.
It's an nasty flood because the rivers that cross Calgary a very near down-town, so lots of services are cut off because of that. Also stampede is coming soon, and the entire park is underwater. The Calgary Zoo too is experiencing nasty nasty flooding.
Worst thing is, it isn't stopping, right now I hear moderate to hard rain, luckily I live on a hill, but condolences to all of you evacuating, and being affected by it.
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More pictures/info:
http://bizboxtv.com/calgary-flooding-2013-flood-pictures-video/
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/story/2013/06/20/calgary-city-emergency-plan-ch.html#evacuation_flood_zones
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/06/21/officials-warn-worst-is-yet-to-come-as-areas-of-calgary-begin-to-flood/
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Most of my family lives in Calgary but they live on the safe end of town so I'm thankful for that. Still a lot of people are going to be displaced it's unfortunate. I live close to Calgary but we haven't had flooding that bad yet.
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It's crazy when I look at the photos and contrast it with my situation. Im currently living in edgemont while working in Airdrie meaning that the heavy rains have basically had no effect on my daily schedule.
Keep hearing stories about friends who have required evacuation etc it's crazy and very unfortunate.
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I'm in Calgary, fortunately somewhat in a higher elevated area, but there's water %$#&ing everywhere, and I won't be able to drive out of my house lol.
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this is getting crazy, reports deerfoot getting shut down later this afternoon. lucky I am in Cranston :/ I feel bad for the others in lower areas! 
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If people are stuck inside, lets meet up and watch some starcraft?
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ban me please
User was temp banned for this post.
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Yet another example of Unintelligent Design. Control yourselves, damn rivers.
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I had no idea that there was flooding in Calgary, let alone it being that bad. I know here in Lethbridge (Which is 2 hours south of Calgary) we've been receiving lots of rain, but we haven't had any flooding.
Well, the university flooded, but for reasons unrelated to the rain.
Hope it gets better soon.
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Canada16217 Posts
I'm in Calgary, it's pretty terrible atm :/
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Stay safe guys <3 with love from Quebec.
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Canada1335 Posts
Woah, I heard about this from some friends who have relatives there, but I didn't know it was this bad. Good luck out there bros.
EDIT: holy shit @ that house peacing it.
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I have literally lost 99% of what I have earned in life as a result of this flood. I got my laptop, xbox, cat and tortoise to safety but just about everything else is gone. I only have 2 pairs of pants, for example. My place is completely submerged I'm sure as I am right at ground zero where the saddledome is filling up.
That said, I have a "fixer upper" property for sale, waterside good location.
Best way for me not to be depressed is so light heartedly troll, I guess.
edit: www.google.ca
http://globalnews.ca/news/662061/calgarians-offended-by-google-doodle-depicting-swimming-scene/
the doodle for today is such a troll
edit2: ![[image loading]](http://cdn.meme.li/instances/300x300/38992669.jpg)
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On June 22 2013 06:46 Ponera wrote:I have literally lost 99% of what I have earned in life as a result of this flood. I got my laptop, xbox, cat and tortoise to safety but just about everything else is gone. I only have 2 pairs of pants, for example. My place is completely submerged I'm sure as I am right at ground zero where the saddledome is filling up. That said, I have a "fixer upper" property for sale, waterside good location. Best way for me not to be depressed is so light heartedly troll, I guess. edit: www.google.ca the doodle for today is such a troll edit2:
Man, that is so sad to hear... Does insurance or anything compensate anything like that? Don't know how it works.
Makes me really happy that on kijiji 400+ people are offering aid, giving people a place to stay etc. Proud day to be Canadian whatever the circumstances are.
Volunteers were actually being denied after too many people were trying to help.
And for you, if you need a place to stay, etc. I can offer assistance.
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I am so sorry for you Ponera. Usually these tragedies are too far away for me to feel sympathetic (also because I'm a bad person) but this is close to home and family and friends.
www.google.ca you didn't!
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No fortunately I am house sitting for my parents in the NW. I am trying to find out how bad it is at 4th st and 19th ave, I've heard that 4th street is running faster than the elbow normally. I am in a basement suite so odds are it's near the top of the roof lol. That means my 4 fish are probably swimming free, I hope I find them before they die.
It's funny how my friends and family tell me "oh it could be worse" and "keep perspective" makes me wonder if it's them who needs a perspective. Oh well, nothing I can do about it but continue to make snarky comments and troll my facebook friends
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Yeah it's unreal at the moment. I'm working on the new hotels near the airport, Far from the flooding and our site was shut down today to ensure everyone could be home safely. I went to buy some groceries and stock up on water and the stores are absolutely swarmed with people and finding water to buy was near impossible.
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wow thanks for making me a tl plus member! Not sure what that means but thanks.
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On June 22 2013 07:14 Ponera wrote:
wow thanks for making me a tl plus member! Not sure what that means but thanks.
Hope it makes your day a little brighter.
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Any ideas on how southern deerfoot is atm. I just need to hit Stoney trail coming from airdrie in about 35 minutes.
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calfrobe bridge is gonna be closed soon, some areas south of probably mcknight are closed as well. It's gonna be an absolute shitstorm by memorial dude. I'd avoid anything but like small local drives tbh
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On June 22 2013 07:23 KingDime wrote:
Any ideas on how southern deerfoot is atm. I just need to hit Stoney trail coming from airdrie in about 35 minutes.
Closed, went to work, had to turn around as deerfoot was closed. Well this was this morning.
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On June 22 2013 07:23 KingDime wrote:
Any ideas on how southern deerfoot is atm. I just need to hit Stoney trail coming from airdrie in about 35 minutes.
Yo chris you should be able to hit stoney no problem from Airdrie. You can completely avoid the city. What area do you have to get too?
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Just basically hit Stoney 2 minutes past Balzac from the deerfoot, get onto shaganappi and then merge onto John Laurie.
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You should be fine. Deerfoot is being closed near memorial and calf robe bridge.
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LOL while people wait in line to get bottled water in prep for the water treatment to be compromised, I am filling up water jugs and then going to the beer store.
I feel like I am winning at tragedy here hah
Also I think karmy needs to be knighted for making me feel a lot better in this tragedy. He got me TL+ out of nowhere and is helping with the barcraft here in calgary. <3
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On June 22 2013 07:42 Ponera wrote:
LOL while people wait in line to get bottled water in prep for the water treatment to be compromised, I am filling up water jugs and then going to the beer store.
I feel like I am winning at tragedy here hah
Also I think karmy needs to be knighted for making me feel a lot better in this tragedy. He got me TL+ out of nowhere and is helping with the barcraft here in calgary. <3
Yet he's not coming to the barcraft itself ;p
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Yah he's really helped lift my spirits in light of getting crushed by this flood which in turn is making me work harder on the calgary barcraft to spread the happy :D
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Man, I must be living under a rock. Hope you guys are ok and dry. Not sure what I can do to help, but just PM me if there is anything I can do.
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I'm very likely going to be sent to Calgary (from Kelowna, BC) for "emergency work" when the flooding begins to die down by my employer (Telus) because many of the telecommunication lines are basically going to be fucked from all the water. Really gonna suck.
Aside from that, I hope everyone manages to stay safe who is in Calgary atm :o
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Here is an update for you all. I just got back from beltline, took crowchild straight down to 17th and the water is a few blocks from my basement apartment, but the drains have all backed up. So it smells delightful. I found this out during operation fish rescue to try to save my fish from certain death
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but I thought fish could swim
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I live in BC, but my one of my friends and his wife live in Calgary. They weren't evacuated but decided to head to his Uncles place which is a bit out of city. Their offices are downtown, and obviously they've been told not to return to work until the flooding subsides.
He said just like the OP that this came pretty much out of nowhere.
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I hope every person affected by this sudden flooding is okay, safe everyone!
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Sorry for not having time to inform myself, it is quite late and i have to go sleep. You have my sympathy. Was there deforestation in Alberta in the past few years? Could that factor in in having such a big, unexpected flood?
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No, deforestation has nothing to do with it. Basically there are two factors: at the start of summer into about mid july we get more thunderstorms than just about anywhere in North America, being beaten by only a few more storms on average coming off the great lakes, if I recall. So precipitation is normally high, along with glacial melting as temps go up feeding into the bow river and related drainage basins. The other main factor is that there is a huge low pressure area to the south of us which is driving precipitation up from the states straight into the calgary drainage area.
200 or so mm of rain in 60 hours is more the cause than anything.
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To say I was shocked to read the news this morning is an understatement.Currently working up in northern Alberta. Fortunately I live south of the flooded zone and should return to a dry house.
Hopefully we can get to cleaning up this disaster sooner rather than later.
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I had no idea this was going on, my heart goes out to people in Alberta.
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I live about 6 blocks from a couple mandatory evac locations, but three of the houses I work/worked on back on to the elbow river... meaning that their main floors are quite probably hanging out underwater right now. A company I used to work for also had one of their storage containers picked up by the flood and swept into a bridge downstream. Aside from it being full of work materials and tools, it's also worrying people for the safety of the bridge.
Looks like it's drying up now, but it definitely looks like I'll be busy for fair chunks of next week helping people clean up messes this flood is going to leave behind :/
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I wish the best of luck to those affected. Stay safe.
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Best wishes to everyone affected. Friend of mine lost nearly everything he had in the floods in south germany, helped him the last weekend to sort out the ruins of his life so yeah... i'm really sad this happens elsewhere too :/
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You know I had heard about it but I really didn't know how bad it was until I checked this out. Wow... this is unbelievable. How much rain did you guys get in total?
How has the weather been/going to be? Hopefully sunnier, drier, and windy.
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On June 25 2013 16:47 Ero-Sennin wrote:
You know I had heard about it but I really didn't know how bad it was until I checked this out. Wow... this is unbelievable. How much rain did you guys get in total?
How has the weather been/going to be? Hopefully sunnier, drier, and windy.
About a years worth of rain as fallen within a week in Calgary. All of Alberta has been been rained on for all 24 days. The is by far the wettest June in history.
I live in Edmonton and I can see the North Saskatchewan River raising but its nowhere near the levels of the Bow and Elbow rivers.
I believe last year farmers in the province received funding from the government too help pay for water due to the lack of rain and were saying they hope next year they get more rain. I think they may be wishing they didn't ask for it lol.
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Well, looks like the rain is over now, and everyone I know is fine. Now we have a new flood going on, a flood of volunteers donating their money and time to clean up the damages.
Also related:
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