We didn't go anywhere but the hospital here in town (S'more), yesterday. Had to go to the store and pick up meds today and the Shoppers here in town sold out of water pretty quickly - over 400 flats. People have been driving out from Calgary to do their shopping - we only went to Sobeys here today and it was packed. However, if you want bottled water, they are the place to go right now - I'm not sure I've ever seen that amount of bottled water all in one place before. 100s and 100s and 100s of cases/flats.
Have to say, it's the most efficient I've ever seen the hospital here run. It's usually crazy slow and terribly unorganized - so much so it's usually quicker to go to a hospital in Calgary, if you're in need of being seen. But they were told they were getting some evac'd patients from High River possibly, so they picked up their socks and got it together. Really too bad they can't operate as efficiently all the time, lol.
The Hutterite colonies from around here have been making and taking food down to the evac centres south of here, in several communities. My husband has a few friends at a couple of different colonies, and does some mechanic work for their colonies from time to time and he was talking to one of the guys this afternoon. He said they've made and delivered something like 7000 sandwich lunches to the evac centres. Baking bread and other items, almost around the clock since everything started. Thought that was just excellent of them.
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