Major Water Main Break in Bowness Area

[Fuzz]

Someone should start a convoy.

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Someone should start a convoy.

We'll pivot out neighbour day parade today into one.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang

This is tiresome. Even paying minimal attention at any point over the last week will answer these questions.

Golf courses aren’t using treated, city water. You can wash your clothes. You can have showers. Just be conscious of the water used, and be economical where possible. You can water your plants if you have a watering can and catch some rain/grey water.

Thus isn’t as difficult, dramatic, or political as some are determined to make it.

Agreed. It's inexcusable to be this ignorant nine days in. This isn't rocket science and the do's and don'ts have been made crystal clear.

[Looch City]

All I hear is indoor car washes use 85% recycled water or something. Well what about the remaining 15%?

Why not just shut them down entirely if it's an emergency?

[DylanScores]

So the City just declared State of Emergency.
What does this mean? Restaurants shutting down, forcing businesses to close , stampede cancelled?

I hope that they ticket everyone that uses water wastefully right now. Had a neighbor who washed his car the other day on his driveway , got a visit from the Bylaw and bragged that he only got a warning and he did it intentionally knowing that he will only get a warning.

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by btimbit

It's outrage culture. People think they have to think the worst about everything, all the time. Then if there's nothing to complain about, they make things up, or go 'yeah but what if xyz, then this would be ridiculous!'

I'm so sick of it. Every minor thing blown up like it's a catastrophe.

If you're not being over the top or your messaging is not alarmist people won't listen anymore. Rational or moderate thinking doesn't get clicks, like or sparks a conversation.

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by DylanScores

So the City just declared State of Emergency.
What does this mean? Restaurants shutting down, businesses closing?

Gondek said the declaration of a state of local emergency was related to the repair process which might involve going on private property. while doing repairs, and not to the water supply.

“The state of local emergency is not linked to the level of water in the reservoirs.” Gondek said, in reply to a question from a reporter.

Gondek said the city has reached out to industry for assistance to help fix the five hot spots simultaneously.

https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/all-hands...reak-1.6928291

[Fuzz]

Sometimes it's fun to check up on how the crazies are viewing this.

Spoiler!

https://www.facebook.com/CalgaryFreedomCentral/

Ah, we've now ventured into numerology and hidden messages. Good stuff, keep it up! You've almost cracked the code.

[Zary's-Mustache]

Originally Posted by Looch City

All I hear is indoor car washes use 85% recycled water or something. Well what about the remaining 15%?

Why not just shut them down entirely if it's an emergency?

It's much less than 85%. They should be shutdown. No reason someone needs to wash their car now.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Someone should start a convoy.

I’m surprised there isn’t, honestly. Especially with empty brain comments like “this feels like every other restriction out there” you know there’s a whole section of the population convinced this is some government control scheme (and, to be fair, I’m pretty sure I’ve seen some conspiracy about how the government is using this to control our water permanently…).

I think Ozy asked this with more of a mental health angle in another thread, but I’m curious why the dumbest people imaginable are always the angry ones or the ones that take the most issue with the way things are being done?

I’m ignorant to most of what’s going on here. It’s bliss. I don’t know how to fix the pipe or how the water system works exactly and frankly, I do not care. That’s someone’s job and I trust that they’re doing to the best of their ability and things will get worked out when they get worked out. The thought that people are making up restrictions to control us never crosses my mind, though, I’m smart enough to read the restrictions and understand I am still allowed to shower and do laundry.

But there is apparently a threshold of ignorance that is not “bliss,” considering every time some angry dildo brings up some point they think is remotely well considered it’s debunked by like 15 people in two seconds. And the weirdest part is the confidence. Confidently stupid. Confident that they’ve figured out the issue, or seen through the bull####, and somehow everyone else are sheep or something. How do these people function? Like, how does a typical day work, do you think? What do you think the carbon tax protestors get up to date to day outside that gas station?

I don’t know, kind of off topic, but it gives me very little hope that post-COVID even a water main break has the same dumb people making the same category of dumb comments. All restrictions are the same. Every government order is a conspiracy. Every emergency is made to control us. Just mind numbingly stupid.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Agreed. It's inexcusable to be this ignorant nine days in. This isn't rocket science and the do's and don'ts have been made crystal clear.

I shower in the recycled sweat of the orphans in my basement who cycle to generate my electricity.

Green energy man! Green. Energy.

[Jimmy Stang]

I saw a comment online that suggests that Tuscany, for example, shouldn't have to conserve water because we are served by the Bearspaw treatment plant. Upstream of the issue, so to speak.

Is there any truth to this? It seems like an oversimplification and possibly incorrect, but i don’t have the knowledge to debunk or confirm.

[keratosis]

It's not a matter of how much water Calgary has , more a problem of supplying it. If someone is siphoning it off before others get a share, then what? Think of it this way, I run a golf course that draws water from a creek and you live down the road from it. If the golf course takes it all what's left for you?

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang

I saw a comment online that suggests that Tuscany, for example, shouldn't have to conserve water because we are served by the Bearspaw treatment plant. Upstream of the issue, so to speak.

Is there any truth to this? It seems like an oversimplification and possibly incorrect, but i don’t have the knowledge to debunk or confirm.

We have someone in this thread who says that the south should be good as well because of the Glenmore Reservoir.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

We have someone in this thread who says that the south should be good as well because of the Glenmore Reservoir.

Damn right

Suck it Northern Monkeys

[T-Dog]

My daughter works at a local restaurant and she was telling me yesterday how all of her twenty-something co-workers were surprised that she was doing things to reduce her water consumption. She said that she was literally the only one doing the right thing, while everyone else was essentially trying to make her feel foolish about reducing shower time, washing fewer clothes, etc. I really hope these co-workers are an anomaly and not a commentary about how that age group or people in general see themselves as part of a community.

[Zary's-Mustache]

I'm also surprised by the keep showers to 5 minutes or less comments by the city...

How long are people's showers typically? Mine are like 4-5 minutes max always.

[Jimmy Stang]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

We have someone in this thread who says that the south should be good as well because of the Glenmore Reservoir.

But thats easily debunked. Whether or not people choose to accept it is another thing.

But his theory is, if the Bearspaw plant is cut off from the majority of the city, then the communities that are not cut off should have an abundance of water available to them.

I just want to know if there is anything correct about that. It seems too simple to me, as the system is interconnected, water pressures, local reservoirs and storage places, pump stations, etc.

I’m not looking to justify more usage or to minimize the need for restrictions and the state of emergency, but to understand if there is any truth to it (and possibly debunk it).

[Looch City]

Originally Posted by Zary's-Mustache

I'm also surprised by the keep showers to 5 minutes or less comments by the city...

How long are people's showers typically? Mine are like 4-5 minutes max always.

And using laundry and dishwasher only when they're full.

Like what, y'all are normally running them with 3 pieces of clothes or a single spoon and fork??

Do not understand lol

[Ashasx]

Speaking with people at work, a lot of them brush their teeth in the shower with the water running, men will often shave with the water running, etc.