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Originally Posted by Codes
I wasn't here for 1995, so I've only experienced last year's flood, which by all accounts was rather benign for us in Lethbridge.
My facility is in the river valley, so we could potentially have flooding in our fields and parts of our farm, but I don't think the levels will rise enough to affect the building itself. However, there is a good chance that we'll have to close, as part of the evacuation order/river bottom closing.
Also, this would be bad news for Softball Valley.
Acey, I say get used to it (unfortunately). Weather patterns are changing. Perhaps we are trending towards the new norm.
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One climatoligist or some kind of scientist was on the CBC after the flood last year saying that the conditions which led to the flood were still present. The main one being high water saturation of soil, lakes, wetlands, etc. All of the natural ways of preventing floods were sitting at high levels before the season really started. His comment was that these are cyclical and that you would likely have high flood risk years for a short period before the risk would receed. So while it might not be a long term new norm in the short term it was. No idea on where to go for a link to back up what I remember hearing though.