Alberta Flood Watch 2013

[Fozzie_DeBear]

http://google.org/crisismap/2013-alberta-floods

I'm on a mobile but maybe you do it on this?

[GreatWhiteEbola]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

Crazy how the water bent those tracks like that. There is no way the trains run up from Erlton any time soon.

The track bed was washed-out.

[fundmark19]

Originally Posted by Fozzie_DeBear

http://google.org/crisismap/2013-alberta-floods

I'm on a mobile but maybe you do it on this?

It lets you search but I still can't make a pin. Unless I am doing something wrong which could be a good possibility

[Flash Walken]

Originally Posted by Regulator75

I love the guy in this picture.

"Oh hey, you like my bent tracks?"

[Tron_fdc]

Heard from a customer (I work in the aggregate industry) that the Stampede is looking for 16 000 ton of sand for the race track (that's a LOT of sand).

That says to me they're pretty much 100% going forward with the 'pede

[Flash Walken]

Originally Posted by Tron_fdc

Heard from a customer (I work in the aggregate industry) that the Stampede is looking for 16 000 ton of sand for the race track (that's a LOT of sand).

That says to me they're pretty much 100% going forward with the 'pede

Hmm, that doesn't sound like that much.

At about 3300 lbs per cubic yard, that's about...10 yards of sand? Half a dump-truck worth?

[burn_this_city]

That's 7,300 m3.

[burn_this_city]

If they use a dump truck with a pup trailer its roughly 400 truck loads.

[You Need a Thneed]

Originally Posted by burn_this_city

If they use a dump truck with a pup trailer its roughly 400 truck loads.

That's not a ridiculous amount. I'm sure the SE Ring Road has been moving more material than that every day, or at least have been at some points this spring.

[Otto-matic]

Thanks to Rhettzky for convincing my mother not to pump her basement out.

[Flash Walken]

Can you tell I'm not an engineer?

My Arts degree is showing.

[burn_this_city]

Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed

That's not a ridiculous amount. I'm sure the SE Ring Road has been moving more material than that every day, or at least have been at some points this spring.

Very possible, the biggest constraint on the Stampede will be lining up trucking and material supply with complete delivery over the next week.

[Rudee]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

Crazy how the water bent those tracks like that. There is no way the trains run up from Erlton any time soon.

The water didn't bend the tracks per se. Water eroded the ground that was supporting the tracks.

[Senator Clay Davis]

I just got back from Europe and doing the flyover in the plane over Calgary was insane. McKenzie Meadows and Inglewood Golf Courses no longer exist, several other areas look like swamps and everything appears pretty much at a standstill. No doubt gonna be several months before things are back to normal, looking at the damage to the CTrain stations from 39th to downtown it looks like there is little to no chance they'll be operational before the end of July.

[PsYcNeT]

Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis

No doubt gonna be several months before things are back to normal, looking at the damage to the CTrain stations from 39th to downtown it looks like there is little to no chance they'll be operational before the end of July.

I wouldn't be surprised if the city puts a pretty huge amount of manpower on getting the tracks back in order. The Stampede will be pretty empty without the train traffic.

[Jbo]

Can anyone tell me how long it realistically could take to repair a bridge like the one at 25 Ave? Went home yesterday and saw it was washed out. With the city going ahead with the Stampede, I would imagine getting that bridge up would be importent (same with train) as it is one of the access points for the Stampede?

Selfishly, I'm hoping that the Stampede clean-up helps benefit my neighbourhood indirectly. I couldn't believe what I saw yesterday.

Just requested a day off to go help/volunteer clean up my neighbourhood tomorrow

[You Need a Thneed]

That's a fairly short section of track, it should take too much to rebuild it so that trains can go on it. I wouldn't be surprised to see it open by Stampede.

[Tron_fdc]

Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed

That's not a ridiculous amount. I'm sure the SE Ring Road has been moving more material than that every day, or at least have been at some points this spring.

Problem right now is that all the sand in the city is allocated to the ring road. Manufacturing sand rate is about 400 ton/hr (maybe) and that's assuming materials are available to create the sand in the first place (aggregate).

Adding to the problem is that Lafarge is the primary contractor on the ring road, who as far as I know is still not running their Deerfoot plant. They have huge penalties in place if they can't meet deadlines, so my guess is they will buying up all their aggregate from producers anywhere near the city. This will limit the availability, unless you want to truck it in from somewhere else ($$$$).

It's an interesting problem for sure.

[Ironhorse]

Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis

I just got back from Europe and doing the flyover in the plane over Calgary was insane. McKenzie Meadows and Inglewood Golf Courses no longer exist, several other areas look like swamps and everything appears pretty much at a standstill. No doubt gonna be several months before things are back to normal, looking at the damage to the CTrain stations from 39th to downtown it looks like there is little to no chance they'll be operational before the end of July.

Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

I wouldn't be surprised if the city puts a pretty huge amount of manpower on getting the tracks back in order. The Stampede will be pretty empty without the train traffic.

I wouldn't be surprised to see Canadian Pacific helping out with that; they're pretty good with rebuilding rail lines in a hurry.

[Senator Clay Davis]

Well if they cannot get the trains operational by the start of Stampede there really is no point at all to having it. Last thing the city needs is 10-20 times the usually car traffic of people trying to go to Stampede. Or more likely, very few people will actually go to Stampede.