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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: haloboy100 on June 22, 2013, 01:25:34 pm
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So my city and half the province is currently under water.
This is the saddledome:
I've just been told that this picture is fake - the saddledome, like the rest of the core, has no power. However, the water is indeed that high - the first several rows are completely submerged.
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/e917d975478682dcfb29daefc5558a74/tumblr_moszfxa8bJ1qadgtjo1_500.jpg)
This is the zoo:
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/e3da9b5af9c2f33c46a48bb63b8881c6/tumblr_morb3kPD5E1qg8nv3o1_500.jpg)
This is one of the parks near the downtown:
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/858dee705255b1f2adf244b09a5d0698/tumblr_moq6p7zcKW1qiotazo1_500.jpg)
and here's an image that has already become a tumblr meme:
(http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/topstories/2011/08/06/li-calgary-20110805-flood-bus-cp01084538.jpg)
100,000 evacuated, the army called in to high river and some of the adjoining towns. 3 confirmed deaths. The power is out in the city core where people are trapped in the appartment complexes.
Both the prime minister and the premier are in calgary right now. It's probably the only time in my life I've ever seen the prime officials from all three levels of government on TV in the same interview, let alone in my town. We had about 100mm of rainfall in about 48 hours.
I've seen some early estimates of damage at around $400 million. 350000 people aren't working today, a good number of them officials in the oil business. Who knows how much money that's costing the industry right now.
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I wish all the people in Alberta good luck, it's a bad experience to live through a catastrophe like this. On the up side, that stadium looks like a kick ass swimming pool.
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Well, if it wasn't for the fact that the water is dirty as hell and probably has sewage in it, sure. ;)
On a related note, the local high school I used to attend has its back field completely filled up in a similar fashion. I frequently see people kayaking in it. Not sure what to think of that...
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That's a lot of water. :| Stay safe up there!
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Yeah, northeast Alberta got flooded last week, southern Alberta got flooded this week, and we're sitting here in Edmonton hoping we aren't next :P
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We're used to disasterous amounts of snow, gorrammit. Not disasterous amounts of water.
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But aren't they the same thing? :p
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meh isn't Alberta a little late for the flood party?
There's also Germany and a lot of other places worldwide.
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True, the whole world is experiencing flood issues. This isn't to say that Alberta's crisis is necessarily more important, though this is probably the largest natural disaster in our history.
But aren't they the same thing? :p
Snow doesn't overflow out of the rivers, wash away houses and cut the power. :P
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Yeah. But Neuland's already got this handled. Canada's right in the thick of it.
True, the whole world is experiencing flood issues. This isn't to say that Alberta's crisis is necessarily more important, though this is probably the largest natural disaster in our history.
But aren't they the same thing? :p
Snow doesn't overflow out of the rivers, wash away houses and cut the power. :P
*Cough (http://canadaonline.about.com/cs/weather/p/icestorm.htm)*
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Yeah. But Neuland's already got this handled. Canada's right in the thick of it.
True, the whole world is experiencing flood issues. This isn't to say that Alberta's crisis is necessarily more important, though this is probably the largest natural disaster in our history.
But aren't they the same thing? :p
Snow doesn't overflow out of the rivers, wash away houses and cut the power. :P
*Cough (http://canadaonline.about.com/cs/weather/p/icestorm.htm)*
The water equivalent of freezing rain, ice pellets and a little snow was double previous major ice storms.
In other words, not snow.
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Snow doesn't overflow out of the rivers, wash away houses and cut the power. :P
I believe that's called an avalanche. :p
Oh and i bet your oil wells are flooded to, hey?
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Yeah, but at least avalanches just happen once and then the trauma is over with. This flood's been going on for days.
Heheh, no, the oil isn't gathered in the calgary area. That's all up north. The oil business in calgary is all on the corporate side of things.
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We're used to disasterous amounts of snow, gorrammit. Not disasterous amounts of water.
Dude, I grew up in BC. Alberta does not get disastrous amounts of snow, ever... even Calgary's chinooks pale in comparison to the BC interior's regular snowfall.
Heheh, no, the oil isn't gathered in the calgary area. That's all up north. The oil business in calgary is all on the corporate side of things.
Not entirely true - there are a bunch of wells flooded out in the Turner valley and along highway 22, but it isn't a major production area anymore.
yuezhi - this is Alberta: https://maps.google.ca/?ll=54.431713,-112.368164&spn=10.402709,28.410645&t=m&z=6
The area experiencing local flooding is all from Calgary to the south (pockets of flooding here and there). Put another way, only about 1/6 of the total area of the province has any flooding within its boundaries. The area where the main oil production occurs is from Edmonton to the northern end of the province - roughly about 3/5 of the provincial area.
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We're used to disasterous amounts of snow, gorrammit. Not disasterous amounts of water.
Dude, I grew up in BC. Alberta does not get disastrous amounts of snow, ever... even Calgary's chinooks pale in comparison to the BC interior's regular snowfall..
Well...of course. Chinooks are warm. It never snows during chinooks. :P
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Prairie flooding isn't exactly uncommon
However, seems like this one isn't just in Alberta. BC is getting their fair share of flooding as well
Who pissed off the water Gods? Or would this be considered the work of the Agriculture one...
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^yo :pimp:
gettin stoned while rednecks, euros and indis get swamped. Most make ark but so stoned man.
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On a related note, the local high school I used to attend has its back field completely filled up in a similar fashion. I frequently see people kayaking in it. Not sure what to think of that...
I would buy a kayak if I could kayak through my high school. But then it's the only way I'd go back.
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I just heard about this yesterday; it seems pretty nasty. Was this a result of a series of deluges over a week or two, or just one big storm in a hurry?
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It was over 100mm of water in 48 hours, mostly. There's some talk (mostly from trolls living in B.C.) about our irrigation system being the problem, but those claims are largely unsubstantiated.
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Huh...I wouldn't expect that amount of rain to cause something that catastrophic, at least in my experience. I mean that's a pretty good chunk for 48 hours, but I'm used to associating that level of damage with something like 200 mm over 24 hours, or something else that outrageously high.
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Huh...I wouldn't expect that amount of rain to cause something that catastrophic, at least in my experience. I mean that's a pretty good chunk for 48 hours, but I'm used to associating that level of damage with something like 200 mm over 24 hours, or something else that outrageously high.
True, but like I said, we're not used to rainfall. This is something like a quarter to half of our annual precipitation.
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...oh. That's certainly a different story then. Ouch.
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Some areas did get close to 200mm over 24 hours. But the problem is not so much the amount of rain, but that it was over a very large area which happens to be a single river basin. So once all that water went into the rivers... oof. :/
Wunderground's weather historian has a good brief blog article on it here (http://www.wunderground.com/blog/weatherhistorian/comment.html?entrynum=167).
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I also forgot to mention that we just finished a brand new bridge somewhere in the core, and it got completely swept away by the water.
This isn't it, but still a good laugh. Calgary's spirit is pretty flared up right now:
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/d1f239128be5a66e322b3c9600e1d84f/tumblr_mou1yyma4O1stbg8ao1_500.jpg)
The rain has finally stopped, but they say it's going to be until the middle of the week before recovery work can even be considered. School has been cancelled for me until wednesday. They mayor just announced that about 65,000 people will be allowed to return to their homes, so that's good news.
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Some areas did get close to 200mm over 24 hours. But the problem is not so much the amount of rain, but that it was over a very large area which happens to be a single river basin. So once all that water went into the rivers... oof. :/
Wunderground's weather historian has a good brief blog article on it here (http://www.wunderground.com/blog/weatherhistorian/comment.html?entrynum=167).
Exactly this.
Alberta's a bit of a strange place. Virtually all the river and stream systems begin and consolidate into major rivers either in the Rockies, or nearby in the immediate foothills. Meanwhile, most of the population centers are located 100+ km from the main foothills, so by the time the rivers reach the population centers, the basins have all drained to single rivers which carry water from hundreds of square kilometers down a single river channel.
Alberta really only has a few main river systems:
-The Old Man (flooding Lethebridge and Medicine Hat)
-The Bow (flooded Canmore and Calgary, contributing to Lethbridge and Medicine Hat)
-The Red Deer (high but not flooding, also dam controlled)
-The North Saskatchewan (currently high but not flooding in Edmonton)
-The Athabasca (flooded Fort McMurray two weeks ago)
-The Peace (no flooding at present)
There are other rivers in the province obviously, but virtually all of them consolidate into these drainage systems and do so before they pass through the population centers. Calgary and the other southern cities are very susceptible to flooding - though part of the reason why there is such a mess in Calgary and High River is because the municipalities stupidly allowed construction within the 50- and 100-year flood plains. That's not a uniquely-Alberta phenomenon, but it's moronic wherever its practiced.
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That's an insane amount of water. And here I thought the potential flood (and subsequent tornado) in Missouri was bad a few weeks back. Stay safe haloboy!
Why is the bus driving into the water?
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Thanks. :) but fortunately for me I actually live 5 minutes outside of town, in a lake community that is not experiencing affects of the flooding due to an exstensive water control system on the river connecting here to the bow (its a man-made lake that acts as the water resoviour to all the local farmers east of Calgary). There have been talks of our drinking water being cut in order to help the more severely affected communities in Calgary, but so far that hasn't happened. I'm lucky.
As for the bus, I have no idea. I find that picture to be pretty badass, and some friends have showed me meme macros of it they found on tumblr. I'd show you them if I knew where they found them.