For anyone pumping out your basement in sunnyside...stop. you are pumping out silty river water and replacing it with sanitary water. And no using you bathrooms or any water that would go down the drain. It's just going into yours and your neighbors basement. Check calgary.ca for more info.
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Just got back from my place in Mission (25th Ave). Just crazy down there. The bridge is damaged, trees/fences/sidewalks. Completely destroyed. Car overturned in a parking lot...
1st floor is halfway underwater. Police in the area I talked to said it could be up to 3 weeks before the power is back on.
Also, they are doing there best, but stopped ID'n people due to how many people are down there. His advice to me was to start staying home at night if we could.
Just an unreal day, we were lucky as none of our stuff was damaged but our entire building/propery is ravaged
For anyone pumping out your basement in sunnyside...stop. you are pumping out silty river water and replacing it with sanitary water. And no using you bathrooms or any water that would go down the drain. It's just going into yours and your neighbors basement. Check calgary.ca for more info.
Fyi- Graham Delaet, the Saskatchewan native that is donating $1000 per birdie and $2500 for eagle to the Alberta flood relief efforts, has a legitimate chance of winning the Traveler's Championship. 1 off the lead with 4 to play.
DeLaet finishes in third. One shot out of the playoff. Missed a couple putts down the stretch and played it safe on a par 5, which is interesting. He has struggled on Sundays this year when in contention and it probably guaranteed him a top 5 finish, but may also have cost him the shot in the playoff as he failed to birdie the par 5.
He also got god commontary today and thy mentioned calgary and alberta flooding a fair bit.
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I think what they mean is that if you can make it to work, they need work to be done. If you can't, then nobody's going to be pissed off.
I don't want to sound like a dick, but you are aware that life must go on, right? At some point, it will be business as usual. Companies aren't going to just turn off the lights and take a week off. This flood sucks, but the world is still turning. No need to make it worse by shutting down needlessly.
And I'm pretty sure that most employers are going to be sympathetic to people who were directly affected by this flood. If your wardrobe and razor is currently submerged, you're probably allowed to take a few days off. If you live in Bridlewood, and the extent of your inconvenience is having to transfer from the train to a bus, then you should probably get your ass to work and cover for the people that are at home pumping water out of their houses.
I think you're exaggerating what you think my response was to that email. At least 85% of our staff takes transit and that's a big question mark right now. Personally, I'm the only one who does my particular role and I've been working remotely since Friday. Doesn't matter to me if I can't get downtown or not. Frankly, I was just surprised that they said business as usual since the Mayor is still asking all non-essential people to stay away.
For downtown workers hoping to simply re-start work once we are allowed back into the core in mid-week, I am aware the power outage knocked out the entire IT infrastructure of several downtown companies.
Any systems that could not be powered down correctly and went down hard due to power loss and backup generator/UPS failure will take some time to bring back up.
Several companies are scrambling since last Thursday to set up alternate sites/services or even resorting to sending trucks into downtown to retrieve all their equipment and set up shop elsewhere before work resumes to minimize business interruptions. In this day and age, without computers, most people won't be able to do anything.
Making some excellent progress on our street in Sunnyside, as the water on our street drops it is dropping in our basement too. We will probably start pumping out the rest tomorrow, and then the fun of cleanup begins.
Great community spirit in action, it was actually a pretty fun day!
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I am quite confused with the closure of downtown. The mayor on the TV said that it will be closed until mid-week, but when you look online some of the sites are stating only a few buildings are closed. Why can't people just say Yay or Nay?
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Making some excellent progress on our street in Sunnyside, as the water on our street drops it is dropping in our basement too. We will probably start pumping out the rest tomorrow, and then the fun of cleanup begins.
Great community spirit in action, it was actually a pretty fun day!
I probably chatted with you! but yeah. We have reports of previously un flooded basements that are now flooded with sanitary due to pumping. It's best to let the systems drop on their own. Vac trucks and porta potties are coming. And please don't use toilets or drains in the meantime.
I am quite confused with the closure of downtown. The mayor on the TV said that it will be closed until mid-week, but when you look online some of the sites are stating only a few buildings are closed. Why can't people just say Yay or Nay?
If you don't need to be in DT then don't go.
The majority are closed and you'd be in the way if you wanted to go to DT just for the hell of it. My work is closed for monday and it didn't get flooded.
For anyone pumping out your basement in sunnyside...stop. you are pumping out silty river water and replacing it with sanitary water. And no using you bathrooms or any water that would go down the drain. It's just going into yours and your neighbors basement. Check calgary.ca for more info.
Yeah, just came to post something similar to this. (Were you at the Hillhurst/Sunnyside community meeting?)
Very strong message that we shouldn't be pumping out the basements until the drainage system is draining again. The same water is just being recycled through the community, picking up more chemicals and contaminates as it does. As well, it's only going to make the water continue to rise for those to the east of us who simply aren't able to pump out yet. These are in most cases the people who are hardest hit, and I'm okay with letting the water sit in my basement for a couple days if it means that the water stops rising for those with more water.
Also some potential for structural damage by pumping out too fast too early:
Other takeaways: there will be pumping trucks in the neighbourhood soon (no definitive timeline), and dumpster bins hopefully by Tuesday or so.
My water level dropped by about 16 inches overnight without pumping (down from 18 to about 2 inches). Not sure if this is the result of the water table lowering, or my neighbours beside me pumping out theirs and then my level balancing with theirs.
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I just got back from traveling around the city dropping supplies off to various donation centers. I thought about picking up a couple dozen lattes to bring to my neighbors in Sunnyside. Maybe tomorrow!
Yeah we are pumping the lake on our street directly into the sewer system the water department rep told us too (it runs to the Bonnybrook treatment plant). The two sanitary lines on either side are full when you remove the manhole covers.
