Water up to row 10 at Saddledome. Dressing rooms submerged.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by calgaryboy

Greetings from Czech republic! I am with you, searching the web to find out any news, I am proud I am fan of the hockey club from Calgary, because Calgarians are very, very strong, and this whole very tragic thing will make Calgary even stronger. People care about each other!!! All the best from here!!!!!

Greetings.

Did you have flooding too in your town this spring? Any advice?

[kyuss275]

Originally Posted by sureLoss

Eric Francis ‏@EricFrancis 12s For those thinking the #Flames may just mothball the Dome & build a new building guess again. Dome is still needed for at least 3 more yrs

Yup. Unless the new arena is going to be 100% private money ( unlikely), my guess is that it is put on the backburner for quite a while. All government money needs to go to the damage of the city, not a new arena.

[calgaryboy]

Originally Posted by troutman

Greetings.

Did you have flooding too in your town this spring? Any advice?

Greetings!

We had, in Prague and in whole western part of the Czech republic. Advice.....I think there is no advice, just to help each other with everything. Hard times. In Czech republic there were about 4-5 big floods in last 16 years, dating back to 1997 when my hometown Hodonin was also affected. But I would never think of floods in Cgy, Aeneas absolutely shocked me yesterday morning /our time/ when he wrote me an email about this whole thing. As I said, you are all strong and Calgary will go up to another level in interpersonal relation. I think you WILL really help each other and care about everybody.

[#-3]

Originally Posted by kyuss275

Yup. Unless the new arena is going to be 100% private money ( unlikely), my guess is that it is put on the backburner for quite a while. All government money needs to go to the damage of the city, not a new arena.

Going on the backbunner is not what he meant. He was saying even if everything goes as planned it would take until 3 yrs from now to get the doors opened.

[landshark]

I found some live coverage here: http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/rivers-rec...ters-1.1337045

If there are better live sources, please post them. This story is not well covered south of the border. Giant floods in India killing 100s seems to have taken all of the 'flood news' space down here.

Hang in there folks! We're thinking of ya!

[Jayems]

This real? Sorta looks photoshopped

... it's photohopped.

[keratosis]

No^^^^^.

[TurnedTheCorner]

It is a real photoshop created with this pic:

[Jayems]

late to the party

[Stay Golden]

How in the world will they drain all this water out it is not like the streets which have storm drains and will eventually drain at some later time.
Won't all those seats have to be replaced.
I can't see the all the summer concerts booked being played.

[kermitology]

[Stay Golden]

Flames to have a press conference at 2pm.

[Mean Mr. Mustard]

That looks awful. I really have to question if they have the ability to get everything back to normal in time for the regular season. Would the NHL be able to adjust the schedule at this point in time in order to give a greater leeway to the Flames similar to the last major renovations in 1995 where they started the first few months on the road. There obviously isn't another facility in the Calgary area that could house the team, even on a short term basis.

[BurningSteel]

please announce the moving up tp 2nd overall. I need a good distraction.

[Freeway]

Originally Posted by Stay Golden

Flames to have a press conference at 2pm.

Speculation right now. Waiting for official announcement.

[browna]

Originally Posted by Freeway

Speculation right now. Waiting for official announcement.

Global seems to say it's happening...Ken King briefing the media at 2pm.

[Robbob]

Originally Posted by Mean Mr. Mustard

That looks awful. I really have to question if they have the ability to get everything back to normal in time for the regular season. Would the NHL be able to adjust the schedule at this point in time in order to give a greater leeway to the Flames similar to the last major renovations in 1995 where they started the first few months on the road. There obviously isn't another facility in the Calgary area that could house the team, even on a short term basis.

The Rangers started I think 10 games on the road when MSG was being renovated. I would think that is what they would do. Give an extra month to get things in order.

[Flames in 07]

Originally Posted by pylon

That wasn't my intention, I am just pointing out we have been through worse and I lived through it. We lost everything not because of physical damage, we had to start from scratch because of financial damage that was out of everyone's control at the time. And the people that did lose everything back then, had no federal aid, or insurance to help them.

I wasn't trying to make a political statement, I was just trying to give perspective to people who may not have been around during that very dark time. This whole situation sucks the big one, but for the better part, we are talking about 'things' that will be replaced, and for the better part, people are going to be fine very soon. That was not the case back then.

Just curious, how many feet of water do you have in your house right now?

If its less than 10, then as far as I'm concerned you have no F'n idea what people are going through. Just read the posts and move on. Resist the urge to reply with anything that you think on this topic.

[Freeway]

As per Eric Francis, presser is reportedly 3:30 at McMahon.

[zamler]

Originally Posted by Flames in 07

Just curious, how many feet of water do you have in your house right now?

If its less than 10, then as far as I'm concerned you have no F'n idea what people are going through. Just read the posts and move on. Resist the urge to reply with anything that you think on this topic.

Are you really playing the "my crisis is worse than your crisis" card?