Alberta, Saskachewan and Manitoba, the three Canadian prairie provinces have had a wet couple of weeks as heavy rain has hit the provinces.
Now the largest city in Alberta is under a state of emergency and a mandatory evacuation order. Right now officials expect to evacuate around 2 thousand people.
The province has a population of about 3 million people, 80% of the population live in urban areas such as the capital Edmonton, and the largest city, Calgary.
Water from the Elbow River at the Glendmore dam has risen 3 metres in under 24 hours.
CTV says the Bow River one of two which run the the city of Calgary normally runs at 100 cubic metres per second. It is currently runing at 2,000 cubic metres per second.
About eight residential areas are affected from the weathly oil executive homes to the homeless who live under downtown bridges. Small towns south of Calgary continue to experience floods. Northeast of Calgary towns have been evacuated along the Red Deer River.
IdeaJoy is a Calgary blogger. So is Unquenchable Songs and Endless Praise as well as searching for a path into the darkness.
Ian of Ian’s Messy Desk is in Edmonton, north of Calgary and has a list of Alberta blogs.
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No pictures so far Bene, but it looks terrible. The Weather Network has been airing some clips of flooded basements and other damages being done by the flood if anyone is curious about how it looks in Calgary/surrounding areas. Thanks for posting about this!
As have both news network channels. Flooding happens so fast, takes a long time to clean up from and can be profoudly unsettling even with good EMO resources.
Stay dry, be happy to cross post if you want to.
Thanks for this. I have several friends in the area and haven’t looked at the news of late.
Ian.
[Sydney, Australia]
Will be posting pictures from fish creek shortly.
Didn’t get to help, though I did say I’d go this morning to serve food south of Calgary, we were told it was called off.
- Peace
Dave
I’ve posted my pics.
- Peace
Dave