Flooding in Calgary :(
 

Didn't realize you folks down south were being inundated with rain :eek: Saw pics in the newspaper this morning and the damage in some areas looks devastating :eek:

As for our weather, it's been cloudy, windy and cool. Hardly any rain in Edmonton at all.

Is everyone okay down there? Hope you are all well and safe :smile:

Haha it has been raining for a week straight.. or 8 days now? Either or. There is flooding in high river, okatokes (sp) places like that.. Calgary is OK , but the Elbow river is slowly filling to the brim , it's weird... they said we've accumulated ? half or more of our annual rain fall lol.. in just a few short days... but yeah, rain is supposed to stop today/tomorrow ... it's still drizzling outside,

There's your weather update . hah

Its pretty crazy and deppressing, it hasnt rained like this for 10 years. Parts of High River have been evacuated. But calgary is mostly fine. Exept for maybe some houses on the elbow but they have enough money to deal with some flood damage :confused:

on the flip side Alberta needs rain badly to replenish the growund water than has been getting lower and lower over the last 10 years.

Steve

Just a few weeks ago I seen another named lake that had dirt and grass only. This week I see parks (storm water retension areas) with only the tops of goal posts showing and full of smiling ducks.

I like ducks :biggrin:

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We really did need the water as stated above. In the past 10 years (since the last floods) Calgary has dried up to all but a desert. I drive by the Bow river everyday and even though the rain has stopped the river continues to climb. We're a bit nervous because the the river is only about a couple of inches away from the tops to the sewage treatment culverts, thats bad news. Thank goodness for the RODI units!

Tonight I'm going to check out the glenmore damn, the water has breached the top for the first time ever! :eek:

We're lucky here, when it rains like that we call it spring, summer, fall, or winter. Not to long ago while it was raining a lot the sewers were so full that the water was squirting out of man hole covers like little water park jets, only they were squirting up about 4 feet into the air... Made for interesting driving.

Doug

Was there children playing under the water spray like on tv when a car hits the fire hydrant :lol:

The Damn was over flowing before but this was in the 50's

Dam guys, it's "dam". "Damn" means something else. :razz:

Some pictures of the reservoir from last night.

http://members.shaw.ca/hobiesailor/misc/glenmore1.jpg

"Don't go swimming" ... Um .. OK.
http://members.shaw.ca/hobiesailor/misc/glenmore2.jpg

Are you sure? I'm not so sure. I think this may be the first time it's overflowed uncontrolled. I can't find any info to confirm it spilled over before. If you find anything can you post it?

I'm confused, I saw people upset about it, but they continue to live in a place called "High River". Hmmmm....

I was born in Lethbridge myself and got outa there quick!

how far north and east has been getting rain? I am wondering if all my family's farms are getting the water they so desperately need.

Steve

I think anything north of red deer is still pretty dry. as for east i dont think sask got any of this.

thats no good then, well Maybe I will have to make some phone calls and see how this year is going to look for crops.

Steve

I know squat about farming but figure this kind of rain doesn't help the farmers or the water table levels.

actually it does, light rain just gets the ground wet in the first few inches, but heavy rain like you had saturates the soil so any more goes deeper and deeper, also causes the rivers, lakes etc to rise again which all increases the amount in the water table.

but it would have been better to get it a month ago befor crops are planted.

Steve

Edmonton has gotten some rain....a few times there has been good downpoors....but nothing big....like last year lol. Hopefully we get more rain around here.

The farmers are definetly needing this for sure! Over the last few years at my acreage the field has suffered badly...used to get stuff 4ft high...now the highest stuff is 2ft(natural alfalfa and grasses). Our ponds also dried up so much you could drive a truck across them......they used to be 4ft deep....

I hope ya'll dont get flooded though!

Chris

Steve,

For weather information on Alberta:

http://weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/foreca...x_e.html?id=AB

ya nothing close on that set up though, if you draw a line on the map they show you from Edmonton, to Loyd, then down to coranation, to red dear then back to Edmonton then go to the middle of that square my family owns about 150 square miles in there. so I can get close with that but not right :mrgreen:

Steve

Steve,

Time for a phone call, I guess :smile:

yup, and I was talking to Mom and forgot to ask tonight hehe.

Steve

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Yes, the rains were, or should I say are pretty localized. Its still coming down too. I guess the weather fronts on all sides are just holding the moisture here, until there is no more moisture left! Last night there was flash flooding in Calgary's south west. I heard on the radio that only this morning it has dried up a bit.
I'm debating moving to Vancouver to get some sunshine. :razz:

It's been raining most of the night and into this morning. No signs of it abating. We really need it up here. For the past week and a half, it's been cloudy but with little rain.

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Here's a pic of a 1929 flood in Calgary's downtown area. The site said that every year there is a 1 in 100 chance of this happening.
http://www.canreef.com/photopost/dat...071flood_e.jpg
Here's a pic of what we're are on the verge of if the rains continue.
http://www.canreef.com/photopost/dat...loodzone_e.jpg
I guess riverfront property isn't all its cracked up to be.

:eek:

I see now you guys are getting funnel cloud sightings.. be carefull out there.

Steve

We got 2 inches in an hour lastnight. Funnel clouds as close as picture butte for us taberites and lethbirdge people.

But the local guys that are doing some touching up with thier hunting dogs are just smiling; all this rain raised the water level so there is less places for the pheasants to hide. More points more practice. No one from this area should fail their hunt tests this fall. lol

what is the weather forecast for Calgary/Red Deer area this weekend?

Here's a helpful link for ya:

http://weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/canada_e.html

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I think they said 30 to 50% chance of showers for the weekend. I'll take it I guess, its better than the 100% chance from the past two weekends. Mind you this is Calgary, the forcast changes like every hour.

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As of today they're predicting about 100mm of rain over the weekend. Because the ground is so saturated with moisture they say flooding is still a big issue, and it won't take much rain to swell the rivers again.

Thankya
:mrgreen:

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That site paints a better picture then CFCN's web site. Funny how they all have different information. :confused:

just heard the flood warning for some river lol, forgot the name... but the flood warnings are now in effect!

That was the EBS flood warning on the radio, for the Highwood River and the town of High River. Aptly named town, don't you think? :confused:

It was quite nasty last night/early AM.. I left work at almost 1am, I was going South down Crowchild and just before the offramp to Glemmore all lanes were underwater you had to get over to the left lane as it was the shallowest.. the fair right lane had at lease 12" of water but probably alot more.

Got near my end of town near the city limits and one intersection was almost under water (fair end of Lake Chaparral, there was litterally a lake in one intersection) :)

Its quite nasty.,

Well the bow is looking pretty big... Driving down canyon meadows, the section between macleod and deerfoot, everyone was pulled over looking into the river valley at the new lake.

Coming back, it sure looked like the WTP at the calf robe was about to have a whole lot of extra water in it's system.

If any southern alberta farmer complains about the drought this year...

Andy