Major Water Main Break in Bowness Area

[Benched]

Originally Posted by Hockeyguy15

If you look at the update from the city it says limit showers, not do not have them.

shower with a buddy, two showers at the same time!

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

There are bright sides to this.

We're coming off a lot of rain so things aren't particularly dry outside. Fires and fire threat isn't high at the moment either. And this is happening at the least adverse time of year. i.e. Imagine this happening in winter..

[fotze2]

Originally Posted by Benched

shower with a buddy, two showers at the same time!

If it don’t fit, wiggle a bit.

[Tron_fdc]

Well this sucks. Our fernie swim team is coming in for a meet at the Seton Y. Likely going to canceled I assume?

[fotze2]

What is a fernie swim team? Why are you on a swim team? Swimming has teams? Can’t just swim?

[Johnny Makarov]

in the presser Gondek said this pipe is huge. It can fit a semi in it!

[Zary's-Mustache]

Told the wife we need to shower together today. Doing one for the greater good of the city.

[surferguy]

Incoming baby boom

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by surferguy

Incoming baby boom

Once we all have to stop taking showers that's far less likely. Unless you are into that. I don't kink shame.

[Muffins]

Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov

in the presser Gondek said this pipe is huge. It can fit a semi in it!

Well now all I'm picturing is John McClane going though it in a big dump truck.

[Zary's-Mustache]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Once we all have to stop taking showers that's far less likely. Unless you are into that. I don't kink shame.

Covid couldn't bring down the population now the government trying these tactics. Shameful.

[PaperBagger'14]

Originally Posted by Gundo

I am actively involved with the situation, at the moment work may not even begin on the repair until the weekend as there is enormous amounts of water to remove before. Exact location of the break is unknown and it thought to be in the Safeway parking lot however, there is concern that it may run under the building as well.

ENMAX is also worried about critical infrastructure being damaged, which Could have widespread power outage consequences throughout Northwest Calgary. The crews I’m working with have never seen anything like this.

There is a substation very close to home road that does power a decent chunk of the area, however the good news is that all of the incoming HV lines are above ground. I would assume that doesn’t get us out of the weeds though.

Important to note is that all this equipment survived or was quickly replaced after the 2013 flood and I believe there’s no reason to fret over the electrical side.

But I’m just a dumb electrician, lefty loosey righty tighty.

[Paulie Walnuts]

Out of control grassfire in a Cochrane

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Originally Posted by fotze2

What is a fernie swim team? Why are you on a swim team? Swimming has teams? Can’t just swim?

Right? And more importantly, where was my invitation?

I guess I'll make do with my reading team and puzzle solving team.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by PaperBagger'14

Don’t mind the naked guy in the lake today, I’m just having a shvitz

This is going to kill lake bonnevistas neighbourhood ranking.

[GGG]

This is a 60” or so line and given the size of the pool this would have been a fairly catostophic failure of the line. So I am going with a small leak for a long period of time destabilized the underlying soil causing insufficient vertical support or lateral soil shifting breaching the line.

[V]

Originally Posted by Gundo

The crews I’m working with have never seen anything like this.

I'm surprised to hear that. With the McKnight break in 2004 they had boats out rescuing people. That transmission main wasn't as big, but it was winter, so with a bunch of frozen CBs there was nowhere for the water to go. That was a wild one.

[Nyah]

Rain barrels for the win! I'm actually really impressed with how much water they've accumulated in a couple weeks, they're almost full. It's the first year we set them up, good timing for this urban gardener.

[Leondros]

lol, just took a walk with my dog and a neighbor is watering their lawn with a sprinkler. Guy is atleast 80 but still ridiculous. It’s also going to start raining here any second

[Tron_fdc]

Originally Posted by fotze2

What is a fernie swim team? Why are you on a swim team? Swimming has teams? Can’t just swim?

It’s a team consisting of pre teen kids that has figured out a way to extract as much money as possible from parents who think their kids are future olympians.

It’s like any other travel team. You’d think all you need is budgie smugglers but nooooooo you need to pay for bla bla bla thanks for the $5k now your kid (probably) won’t drown when they fall in a lake.