Alberta Flood Watch 2013

[arsenal]

Originally Posted by CaptainYooh

For the second time now, when I open City News Blog, my Firefox freezes and then crashes, so I have to force quit everything. Anyone else had this issue?

Nope, try a different browser?

BRIDGES - BOW RIVER
open

Stoney Trail NW
14 St west (all traffic)
Calf Robe
Ivor Strong (unconfirmed)
22x (unconfirmed)
Deerfoot south near city limits (unnamed bridge)
closed

all the rest

BRIDGES - ELBOW RIVER
open
Glenmore Causeway
closed
all the rest in city limits
ROAD CLOSURES
5 Street SW at 26 Avenue
Elbow Drive between 4 St and north of Britannia Dr
Heritage Dr between Heritage Meadows Rd and Glenmore Tr SE
Heritage Meadows Rd between Deerfoot Tr and Glenmore Tr
Macleod Tr S from 36 Ave to the north - both directions
9 Ave between 7 & 8 St SE
12 St/Zoo Rd between Memorial Dr and 9 Ave SE
Memorial Drive closed from 16 St NW to Centre to 12 St NE
Glenmore closed East of Deerfoot. EB ramp to NB closed.
Eastbound Memorial Dr btwn Crowchild Tr NW and Edmonton Tr NE
Westbound Memorial Dr btwn Edmonton Tr NE and 10 St NW
Southbound Centre St btwn 2 Av SE and 7 Av NE (upper deck of the Centre St bridge)
No access from Deerfoot Tr to westbound 17 Av SE
No access from Deerfoot Tr to Memorial Dr
No access from Crowchild Tr to eastbound Memorial Dr NW
No access from eastbound Memorial Dr to Saint Georges Dr NE
Ogden Rd SE from 16A St to 50 Ave (over the Bow)
25 Avenue west of Spiller Rd


LANE REDUCTIONS

Northbound Deerfoot Tr at Southland Dr - reduced to two lanes
Northbound Deerfoot Tr north of Glenmore Tr SE - reduced to two lanes
Southbound Deerfoot Tr at Southland Dr - reduced to lane over overpass
Crowchild Tr NB from Memorial Drive to Kensington Rd - reduced to 1 lane

[Dan02]

NB macleod and the ctrain tracks have been washed out by the erlton station.

[DFO]

Was chatting about river discharge with a buddy who does a lot of paddling. He said the river discharges were below average this summer - a good portion of the snowpack in the mountains hadn't melted. So the massive amount of rain in the mountains added that to the equation; bit of a double whammy.

[MolsonInBothHands]

Originally Posted by Pizza

Just repeating this for everyone



www.calgarycitynews.com

Wait. So now we have to pay $2.00 a bottle to water our lawns?!?

[MelBridgeman]

Originally Posted by Flash Walken

From a source in your link:

Yes i see that but it doesn't mean this is climate change - a bunch of normal events conspired to cause this.

Well this become more frequent and be tied to climate change, time will tell

[zamler]

Originally Posted by MolsonInBothHands

Wait. So now we have to pay $2.00 a bottle to water our lawns?!?

I captured as much rain water as I could. I wish I had a really large tank of some sort actually, with the amount of rain we've been getting I could be easily doing all my outdoor watering without ever touching the city water supply.

[GirlySports]

Graham DeLaet has made a huge run in 3rd round of the Traveler's today. Solo 2nd now, -10. 3 off Bubba Watson. 13 birdies = $13k for Calgary flood relief. i'm sure he'll donate more with a good finish or if he wins it all!

[The Goon]

Damn straight.

[WhiteTiger]

Some more pics

Looks like they got the jumbotron up.

[Rathji]

Originally Posted by sclitheroe

The problem with that map is it's out of date I think, or not complete - the downtown evacuation, for example, comprises a far wider swath of land now that indicated on that map (basically all of it down to 12th ave)

Yeah it is out of date as of this morning, which is partially why I was suggesting that it was a bad idea to go.

[Flash Walken]

Originally Posted by zamler

I captured as much rain water as I could. I wish I had a really large tank of some sort actually, with the amount of rain we've been getting I could be easily doing all my outdoor watering without ever touching the city water supply.

http://www.regencyirrigation.com/ser...ter-harvesting

[Rathji]

Originally Posted by WhiteTiger

Some more pics

Looks like they got the jumbotron up.

I, for one, welcome our Jumbotron overlord.

[oldschoolcalgary]

Originally Posted by shermanator

Went for a walk along the Bow today between 14th and 10th St NW and through Kensington and snapped these. There were lots of folks in the area just trying to see it for themselves.

Water appears to have receeded but it is still moving very fast. The Kensington area still has their power off so the businesses are all closed.

I guess that those calling for paint on poppy plaza now understand why weathering steel was used....amazing how high the water is

[tvp2003]

For those who work in the core:

Nenshi says full recovery could take months in some parts of downtown

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Ne...#ixzz2WykPJm6X

Flooding impact in downtown Calgary is so dire that some parts of the core may take weeks or months to return to normalcy, Mayor Naheed Nenshi said Saturday.

The city has announced that all of downtown will remain shut until at least the middle of the week.

Many streets in the core resemble rivers around Chinatown, Eau Claire and the east end. The LRT is shut through the core, as the tunnel below East Village is full of water. Power is out to ensure a waterlogged transformer doesn’t blow.

“As for downtown, we don’t anticipate anything even close to approaching normal until at least the middle of the week,” Nenshi told an emergency operations briefing. “There are some parts of downtown where we will measure that return to normalcy not in days but in weeks and months.”

The skyscraper-dominated core is home to Canada’s oilpatch — a key engine of the national economy. Between 150,000 and 180,000 Calgarians work downtown, making it home to more than one-quarter of the city’s jobs.

It’s also home to thousands of residents in buildings that range from seniors’ complexes to rental towers and high-end condominiums.

Calgary’s economy is worth about $120 million a day, much of that through the energy sector, chamber of commerce CEO Adam Legge said. It was shut down Friday, and he expects a full week’s worth of large losses.

“It won’t derail the economy but it will be noticeable,” he said. Many companies will be distracted from their revenue targets or business plans “for at least this quarter,” said Legge, an economist by trade.

[Bagor]

Apologies if already answered but has anyone talked to Dion?

[malcolmk14]

Nope - tried to phone him but it just rang busy. I know he was supposed to leave on holidays Thursday or Friday so I don't know if he actually went or if he got held up because of the flood in High River. You would think that if he was on holidays he would have posted, though.

[Bagor]

Thanks. Yeah he's a pretty regular poster.

[ranchlandsselling]

Originally Posted by Julio

The pathway along the river is all flooded...saw that on a helicopter shot a bit ago.

Must be old footage.
Parked at shouldice arena. Jogged west past the soccer, football and baseball fields. Bridge under 16th ave flooded, not passable (by shouldice pool).

Headed East to approx Lazy Loaf. All fine and dandy on the north side of the river. Some areas pooling closish to the path but nothing of danger and back to Shouldice arena. Noticed on the south side crews in backhoes trying to support the train tracks that looked like it would be close to washing away.

Paths were populated, not busy, not quiet. Some stupid teenagers climbing on a storm drain - also some idiots with their toddlers off leash letting investigate ducks and geese where the pooling was forming. Parking lot enterance at the bottom of shag was taped off.

16th avenue is earily quiet.

[Julio]

Originally Posted by ranchlandsselling

Must be old footage.
Parked at shouldice arena. Jogged west past the soccer, football and baseball fields. Bridge under 16th ave flooded, not passable (by shouldice pool).

Headed East to approx Lazy Loaf. All fine and dandy on the north side of the river. Some areas pooling closish to the path but nothing of danger and back to Shouldice arena. Noticed on the south side crews in backhoes trying to support the train tracks that looked like it would be close to washing away.

Paths were populated, not busy, not quiet. Some stupid teenagers climbing on a storm drain - also some idiots with their toddlers off leash letting investigate ducks and geese where the pooling was forming. Parking lot enterance at the bottom of shag was taped off.

16th avenue is earily quiet.

Good to hear...I was looking more at the sports fields than the pathway east towards downtown.

[Ducay]

Apparently Canmore Transcanada #1 highway will be open shortly in both directions. That's so badass work to get it open. Likely due to fact bridges were fine and likely just had to fill and repave a bit (but no small task).
Well done crews.