Alberta Flood Watch 2013

[Minnie]

Originally Posted by fotze

Has dion been heard from yet?

Not directly. Someone posted a bunch of pages back, that they'd been in touch with his nephew and that he was ok. Evacuated but ok.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by fotze

Has dion been heard from yet?

http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showpos...postcount=3124

[normtwofinger]

Lanny's in shape. Look at those pipes!

[CedarMeter]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Awesome, I've said it before, but best thing to come out of Hanna EVER!

Very cool. He still looks like he's in great shape.

[Suave]

I'm at my inlaws flooded house in Bowness. Carpet, underlay and drywall is out. Now stumped by the subfloor. I'm guessing it all has to go. Wet on top and a little on the underside. 2ft gap to the bottom where there is plastic. I'm guessing rip it out but it is a pain. What is the best way to rip it out? I'll post pictures once back at a computer. Thanks.

[drPepper1]

Jayme Doll sure looks a lot better when she wears make up..

and wow that hippo pic

[Rudee]

Originally Posted by normtwofinger

Lanny's in shape. Look at those pipes!

He needs to work on the legs though.

[undercoverbrother]

http://www.calgaryhighlanders.com/ph...bertaflood.htm


Good read on the Highlanders efforts during the flood.

[MrMastodonFarm]

More on the Zoo, the Hippo's, and the Zoo staff who risked their lives
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/...453/story.html

At that point, the hippos were still where they were supposed to be, but, just in case, a shipping container was placed over a window that the hippos could have swam through.

Water levels eventually rose high enough for the dangerous herbivores to swim over the tops of their enclosure. Now they were able to move freely about the African Savannah building.

"There was the potential for the hippos to swim out of this building into a flooded zoo and potentially into the Bow River and we could have had hippos God knows where," said Veasey.

"They could have been 20 or 30 miles downstream."

Veasey said the powerful beasts could have easily pushed through the glass front doors, so cinder blocks and construction equipment were put there to block their way.

One of the two hippos, an older female named Sparky, stayed put. But a younger male named Lobi was much more adventurous.

"He was having a whale of a time just exploring a much bigger hippo pool than he was used to."

At one point, Lobi managed to squeeze through a narrow door into a corridor and found himself stuck — and furious.

"It's a human being door that you could never comprehend a hippo could go through."

He said getting Lobi out of the corridor was just about as easy as squeezing toothpaste back into a tube.

Veasey and his team considered cutting out metal work to free the creature, but eventually built him a ramp made out of sandbags so that he could climb over a bar and back to his enclosure.

"Of course he's an angry hippo and he's trying to attack us and the sandbags as we're dropping them in, literally in front of his mouth."

Lobi did make it over — his hippo hide squeaking against the metal — and the crisis was over.

[transplant99]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

More on the Zoo, the Hippo's, and the Zoo staff who risked their lives
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/...453/story.html

Unreal...good on those zoo workers though and huge kudos.

[Otto-matic]

Originally Posted by Rhettzky

You're definitely welcome. Did it end up dropping on it's own? Those guys from Red Deer were pumping the broken sanitary line into the main trunk all night and all day today and lots of basements were draining again. Hopefully they get that lift station operational very quickly.

Also saw Rhett Warrener driving around with a frac truck drying out some basements. Very cool to see the lengths people were going to in order to lend a hand. Amazing stuff.

Yep, It went down on its own. We came back the next day and it was fairly dry.

[Hockey_Ninja]

Originally Posted by getbak

[atb]

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While supplies last

[WhiteTiger]

Wrong Thread

[WhiteTiger]

Sorry

[WhiteTiger]

Long Day

[atb]

^ The thread you're looking for is here: http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=123363

[MrMastodonFarm]

I love that the Stampede has adopted that phrase officially.

[MrMastodonFarm]

Does anyone have any updates on Prince Island Park?

[Barnes]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

Does anyone have any updates on Prince Island Park?

I was going to ask this as well. Also, Fort Calgary?

All I could find was from River Cafe.

Sal Howell ‏@SalHowell 30m
@TourismCalgary The beauty of @RiverCafeYYC is miraculously intact, edible garden & patio perfectly untouched. Need power & new basement!!