06-20-2013, 03:18 PM
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#301
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Originally Posted by darockwilder
Not anymore....
Boom, full on storm
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And just like that, it's stopped already. For now.
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06-20-2013, 03:18 PM
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#302
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Calgary
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Apparently 2005 was our "100-year-flood", and if this is going to top it, we're in for a very serious situation here. I'm not trying to sound alarmist or anything, but I just can't shake the feeling that this is not going to be pretty. At all.
Stay safe everyone, and I'll join the numerous others here by offering any assistance that I can - just ask for it.
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06-20-2013, 03:19 PM
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#303
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First Line Centre
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Quote:
Originally Posted by guzzy
not too soon. I don't know why our tax dollars go to people who live in a place called high river that floods every year.
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It's like asking the question why do people live in Earthquake zone or the coastal hurricane regions. People just do.
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06-20-2013, 03:19 PM
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#304
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: South of Calgary North of 'Merica
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Acey
Oldman River in Lethbridge will reach 3000 m3/s... more than double the Elbow. She's got steep banks though and not much development near the river.
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where you find that info, been looking for a while and can't find nuttin
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06-20-2013, 03:20 PM
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#305
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Market Mall Food Court
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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
Canmore:
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Yikes! thats only a block away from my condo!
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06-20-2013, 03:20 PM
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#306
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Calgary
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He's got a point though, at least Florida's nice the rest of the time. Not sure what can be said for High River.
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06-20-2013, 03:21 PM
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#307
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by return to the red
where you find that info, been looking for a while and can't find nuttin
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CTV Lethbridge just posted the Oldman crest info on their fb page, and someone in this thread had said Elbow might reach 1200 m3/s.
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06-20-2013, 03:22 PM
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#308
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Supporting Urban Sprawl
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Acey
He's got a point though, at least Florida's nice the rest of the time. Not sure what can be said for High River.
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Nothing beats the smell of rendering in the morning.
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06-20-2013, 03:22 PM
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#309
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The new goggles also do nothing.
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary
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Just called my tenant in my condo in Erlton, they haven't been evacuated but told him that he's in the flood area so he might want to get his car out of the underground parkade.
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06-20-2013, 03:24 PM
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#310
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: I don't belong here
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Acey
CTV Lethbridge just posted the Oldman crest info on their fb page, and someone in this thread had said Elbow might reach 1200 m3/s.
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The Oldman river is expected to reach 3000 cubic meters per second. In 1995 it reached 4500. Either way, that's crazy!
Water, what a destructive force. Can't live with it, can't live without it.
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06-20-2013, 03:26 PM
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#311
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Franchise Player
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Flew out of Calgary yesterday morning.
Stay safe everybody!
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06-20-2013, 03:27 PM
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#312
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Peterborough, ON
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Buff
The Oldman river is expected to reach 3000 cubic meters per second. In 1995 it reached 4500. Either way, that's crazy!
Water, what a destructive force. Can't live with it, can't live without it.
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Water is probably the most hazardous chemical in the world. It should be banned. 
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06-20-2013, 03:29 PM
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#314
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Buff
The Oldman river is expected to reach 3000 cubic meters per second. In 1995 it reached 4500. Either way, that's crazy
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They're saying to expect '95 levels of flooding here. I was 4 years old so I know nothing of it.
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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
More reasons why Hwy 3 will liekly be closed (if it isn't already):
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Looks like the same spot as that video I posted.
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06-20-2013, 03:29 PM
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#315
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Franchise Player
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I live in Mission and am not allowed back in for 72 hours according to the emergency report.
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06-20-2013, 03:29 PM
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#316
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Monster Storm
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by atb
Some pics found on Twitter
Mission, 26th ave:
4th street & elbow drive:
Near Talisman:
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I think this one may be mine
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06-20-2013, 03:30 PM
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Not the 1 millionth post winnar
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Los Angeles
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You know when the Flames are posting evac orders, the shi just got real.
Hope everyone is ok and relatively dry. Hang in there folks.
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06-20-2013, 03:32 PM
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#319
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: I don't belong here
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Acey
They're saying to expect '95 levels of flooding here. I was 4 years old so I know nothing of it.
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I was 20 at the time. I remember it quite well. I biked down to the University and checked out the river. I didn't get too far down the coulee, but a young neighbour kid and his friend did, and one of them lost their bike in the river as they got too close. I remember it being dry, and biking along the top edges of the coulees, but yet there was all that water running through the river bottom. There isn't a lot of images from then, because it was 1995 and digital cameras were not all that common, but check out this site for a small handful of images: http://www.civil.ualberta.ca/water/M...od/LBRIDGE.HTM
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06-20-2013, 03:33 PM
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#320
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: On your last nerve...:D
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So ain't nobody getting out of or into Alberta south (and I guess west) of Red Deer-ish then?
The 2005 flood - is that the one a teenage girl was lost in when the foot bridge she was on, was swept away?
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