Flooding In Southern Alberta

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/story/2013/06/20/calgary-city-emergency-plan-ch.html

A bunch of small towns have been evacuated and people all over Facebook are offering people shelter.

Thankfully, my place is on the 2nd floor in a building higher up, and my parents live on a hill.







This is the worst flooding I've ever seen in this city -EVER!

This is a terrible situation. I just found out about it on SB's Non Sci-fi Debates Board. It's usually, generally better to be higher up above flood prone &/or potential areas, if you can, as you & your parents are fortunate to be.

There was similar terrible flooding in Illinois within the past month or two.

A lot of my friends who work downtown don't have to work tomorrow. More than 20 neighborhoods have been evacuated already with more on the way. This could get really, REALLY bad if the water keeps coming down.

Now the top story on CNN.
http://www.cnn.com/

http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/21/world/americas/canada-calgary-floods/index.html

One of the hobby shop owners on the modeling board I frequent (HobbyTalk.com) had his shop and mail order business flooded out.

He lives in a town in Alberta called High River. Should'a seen it coming!

Here's the pic he posted of the street his shop is on:

Holy shit dude! I was just talking to that guy last week! Small world! He owns the hobby shop just to the right of the pic, about 3 doors down. I walked in after a long day of filming and checked to see if there was anything interesting and we ended up talking for about 20 minutes.

That picture you posted, that Tack & Feed diner in the middle is where they film the diner scenes for the show Heartland. (I've been in the show btw. ) I can't imagine they are going to film there for the foreseeable future.

Pretty much the entire city has shut down. I called my parents early this morning before they went to work and saved them from being stuck in traffic for 2 hours. This is the worst flooding to have hit Calgary since about 1932.

You Know the MadCap Romanian of Monster Hobbies? Cool.

This just in:

They have evacuated some of the large cats from the Calgary Zoo. (I think we have both lions and tigers, oh my!)

Their destination - the Provincial court jailhouse.

It is now on the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23000926

Good Lord, this city looks like New Orleans post Katrina without the looting, raping, and massive amounts of black people.

It's Alberta. Hard to give a fuck, we only care about your oil and the French Maid, but I hear that closed down so.....

The Flames' Arena isn't looking good right now.

http://deadspin.com/the-calgary-flames-arena-is-flooding-right-now-532073193

It's looks 100x worse when the Flames are playing.

Stay safe, $corp.

And please pick me up a new Samsung Galaxy S4 when you go on a Chinese-style looting spree.

It's hard to make a getaway in a row boat though.

What's an Alberta? Is that the island where Johnny Depp found the Umpalumpas?

Alberta is a Canadian province located approximately 900km northeast of the City of Seattle.

And, of course, in the native Duwamish tongue "Seattle" means "land of hippie cocksuckers".

Ah-ha! So it *is* in the Land of Make-believe!

Oh, so the Flames might need a new home huh?

It is the mythical land of highly polluting tar sands.

Do you drive a car? Take public transit? Use anything at all made of plastic?

Then fuck the fuck off.

As a Vancouverite if Seattle got a team I'd like an actual rivalry between our two cities. That would be impossible with the Flames as they're absolutely terrible and taking 10-12 points off them is automatic every year. No one cares about the Flames here anymore, they're that awful.

Besides I hear Phoenix might make its way up to the Pacific Northwest.

Oh, fuck off. Please show where I've ever campaigned against oil. I do believe we should be burning less of it though just from a basic pollution standpoint and the technology is already here and in use in many countries.

We're also getting waterlogged.

I think nature is trying to make up for the drought from last summer.

Confirmed that the 'Dome is flooded up to the 10th row now.

The Vancouver Canucks should rent it out to practice their diving.

2013's a very bad year for this so far. Central Europe (Aurora's thread) and Illinois were also hit recently with horrible flooding.

Even including the tar sands, Canada is responsible for about 2% of worldwide emissions. So, suck it.



Also, it's sunny and beautiful in Edmonton today. I'm a little too hot, actually. Should have worn sandals instead of shoes.

seeing these pics makes me sort less likley to bitch the next time i get caught in a rain shower.

thank god for hills and houses on em

We have had a very rainy winter, spring, and now easing into summer here in Augusta. Beats a drought any day of the week. We rarely get much flooding here, thankfully.

Been seeing some pics on FB showing up of gouging going on.
$20 bags of ice and $60 fruit tray...

Calgary, I am disappoint