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Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang
Even though I'm far away from the river, it did seem that this flood came about far faster than our last one in 2005. I seem to remember than in 2005, it got worse over a few days until the point where things started to get sketchy. In 2013, however, it seemed to happen within about a day. I remember seeing Canmore flooding in the morning, things getting tense here later in the afternoon, and by the next morning it was just unbelievable. I remember thinking fairly early on that "this could be pretty bad", but I had no idea that the flooding would be so widespread. I don't think that many people did.
2013 was unprecedented flooding. Now that the precedent has been set, I think that people will naturally base their decisions on it for future years.
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Ya agree with this totally. I remember that day it flooded it was a work day, and I went into a meeting at 2PM and someone heard a rumor that Mission was getting evacuated. So I called my brother to tell him to stay at my house in Sunnyside...in the basement
I went home at 5PM with my wife and son and drove over the Centre Street bridge lower deck. The water was quite high, but it was even higher during the 2005 floods, so we thought very little of it. We got home like any normal day, and let our son run up and down the block. I remember being told by neighbors that "this one could be 3 times 2005". Which I said "Well my house is 1982 build and never has water touched it so I think this is no biggie"
Come 6:30PM, in the middle of supper, my Dad calls and says we have 30 mins to get out. Police are coming around and kicking everyone out of Sunnyside. No warning, just grab a bag and get out.
So I grabbed a few things out of the basement that were small, but the water started coming up the drains around 7:30PM.
So I can see why people did not move their stuff out. They either had 30 mins warning, or thought like I did that their house would be fine. I have learned from this whole episode and have game planned my basement to move as much as I can come next flood.