OT - Flooding in my city

So for the past few days my city and surrounding areas have been in a state of emergency. Luckily my area wasn't flooded. Still scary stuff since I was pretty close to being evacuated.

bizboxtv.com/calgary-flooding-2013-flood-pictures-video/

Hang tight Madcat!

The rest of Canada is watching and sending hugs and strength your way!
I've spend some time out in Canmore/ Bow Valley... so sad to see the damage...

Hoping all settles soon!

Madcat, I didn't realize you lived in Alberta too...luckily I'm just outside of Calgary in an unaffected area and it's been heartbreaking to see my beautiful Calgary drowning....I was born and raised in Calgary but the big boom sent us to Strathmore because I couldn't handle the overwhelming traffic on the roads and in public places (thanks to my being sick with CD).

Things are slowly improving and minimal fatalities as a result of the flooding are good but it's unfortunate that anyone lost their life as a result of this disaster...stay safe!!

I find strange that you see pictures of people smiling while their car is submerged. What a facking idiot. There's nothing to be smiling about. Probably he knows the insurance will pay for it. Otherwise, yeah, buddy, you just lost 20k....

People weren't smiling here in Quebec when their basements were submerged.

quincy said...

I'd definitely freak, however.

q

Yeah, I'd freak too. Of course, it won't change anything, freaking out, but to me it's the most natural response.

Somedude, for all you know they were having issues with their car anyway and maybe that's why they were smiling....so easy to make assumptions based on little info isn't it. Not to mention, maybe they were happy that they and their family is safe and would rather see their vehicle suffer the consequences which to some people is better than losing a family/pet or their own life...there are different perspectives during disasters you know. And not everyone reacts the same way during the same disaster either...there's no fault in that. Don't judge a book by it's cover....smiling on the outside doesn't necessarily mean happy on the inside.

Im in a safe place too. Though a 5 min drive and I can already see flooding (ie glenmore reservoir). Everything has mostly receded but theres alot if cleanup. Downtown closed till at least middle of the week. I heard strathmore got it pretty bad too no?

My niece who goes to university in Ontario is currently doing a 4-month work term in Calgary. She started in May. At the end of May the house she was renting a room in burnt down! She got out with only her cell phone and the pyjamas she was wearing. She has been slowly replacing all her ID, a lot of clothes were donated to her, her dad (my brother) flew out there to help her get settled into a new rental.

And then this month the flooding! For a while she thought she'd have to abandon everything again, but luckily turns out her area did not have to be evacuated. However her job is downtown so she's been off work. Even when the buildings reopen, I hear transit may not be up and running for a while?? She takes transit to work so I'm not sure what is going to happen there.

We keep saying - what is next for her? Locusts??

I am amazed they say the Stampede will go on ahead as scheduled and that's in only a couple of weeks. Looks to me like that will take an enormous amount of work to get everything cleaned up and on track in time, but I guess where there is a will there is a way!

When I heard the Mayor talking it sounding like Stampede was more important to clean up than anything else haha! I'm kinda of angry that alot of my friends don't have work since they're in downtown but I do since i'm not :(.

Yup, there's parts of downtown they figure won't be hooked back up with electricity and gas for possibly as long as months due to the damage done...some parts got it worse than others, closer to the bow river the worse off those areas are.

I'm in Northern Illinois and we've had flood warning for days. I haven't seen the sun for 4 days! We've been raining for weeks. Everything is green but the sump pump is going off every 6 minutes and I'm waiting for my foundation to crack and leave me flooded. I'm grateful I don't live too close to the Rock River. Also, grateful I'm not getting the heat they have in the west.

I'm dog sitting and the poor dog got into my car and won't leave. Maybe he feels more secure there or maybe he thinks if he stays there I'll take him home. He looks so forlorn. He Pooped on my floor yesterday during a thinderboomer, poor baby.