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Otto-matic · 06-18-2005, 09:21 PM

Pursuant to Section 21 of the Disaster Services Act (R.S.A. 2000 ch. D-13) and Section 4 of The City of Calgary Bylaw 25M2002, a state of local emergency has been declared in the City of Calgary effective 6:20 p.m., 2005 June 18.

Because of a predicted flood on the Elbow River, and under the authority of this declaration, The City of Calgary will be evacuating around 1,500 residents in low-lying areas of the following communities along the Elbow River.

Elbow Park
Erlton
Mission
Rideau Park
Riverdale
Roxboro
Stanley Park
Victoria Park

Finally

Oxygen-Supply · 06-18-2005, 09:27 PM

cfcn.ca cfcn

The Glenmore reservoir is flowing over the dam and is expected to reach 1.3 metres between 11 p.m. and 12 a.m.

When that happens, officials say there will be significant flooding downstream.

Waterworks officals say the Saddledome :angry: , Talisman Centre and Macleod Trail are all potentially threatened.

shoestring · 06-18-2005, 09:27 PM

Crested I think.Run your transduced evaluation statistical monitor by them fotze and see if we sleep soundly tonight.

RBOWCALG 2005-06-18 17:05:00 3.144 782.78
RBOWCALG 2005-06-18 17:15:00 3.124 771.89
RBOWCALG 2005-06-18 17:30:00 3.129 774.59
RBOWCALG 2005-06-18 17:45:00 3.123 771.35
RBOWCALG 2005-06-18 18:00:00 3.108 763.24

Otto put everything on your kitchen table.
I can lend you a table if need be,PM me. But you will be okay. Princess island will swallow a lot of water before it pours over our banks.

Otto-matic · 06-18-2005, 09:28 PM

Later tonight

Sunnyside Sunset

cheung31 · 06-18-2005, 09:41 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by shoestring@Jun 18 2005, 08:27 PM
Crested I think.Run your transduced evaluation statistical monitor by them fotze and see if we sleep soundly tonight.

RBOWCALG 2005-06-18 17:05:00 3.144 782.78
RBOWCALG 2005-06-18 17:15:00 3.124 771.89
RBOWCALG 2005-06-18 17:30:00 3.129 774.59
RBOWCALG 2005-06-18 17:45:00 3.123 771.35
RBOWCALG 2005-06-18 18:00:00 3.108 763.24

Otto put everything on your kitchen table.
I can lend you a table if need be,PM me. But you will be okay. Princess island will swallow a lot of water before it pours over our banks.

hey great post guys thx for all the updates. btw what does that statistical data mean. im not sure on each column. is there an original link for that information?

and does anyone mind explaining how the dam works, and what the glenmore resevoire flowing over the dam means?

Pagal4321 · 06-18-2005, 10:05 PM

Well at least the rain has stopped up here in the NW.....spent the day learning all my friends basements were all getting flooded.
Sunshine till Wednesday.......

shoestring · 06-18-2005, 10:07 PM

Look above cheung31 the links are somewhere.
It's really fotze's ability with that transduced evaluation statistical monitor that gives you the leading edge though.
Ahh the graph is a beauty!

The Elbow;
RELBGLEN 2005-06-18 17:00:00 2.516 167.52
RELBGLEN 2005-06-18 17:30:00 2.604 181.22
RELBGLEN 2005-06-18 17:55:00 2.700 196.17
RELBGLEN 2005-06-18 18:00:00 2.700 196.17
RELBGLEN 2005-06-18 18:30:00 2.652 188.70
RELBGLEN 2005-06-18 19:00:00 2.779 208.47

Dams somebody find damns! I have no idea how they work.

Whereabouts Pagal4321? Maybe we could have helped instead of goofing around on the net all day. sorry to hear that.

JiriHrdina · 06-18-2005, 10:08 PM

My neighbourhood (Rideau Park) is a crazy scene. The choppers overhead, tons of cops around and of course hundreds of gawkers just coming to take a look. Seems like every 30 seconds another police cruiser goes done the street...weird stuff. Good thing is the police say right now I just have to be "ready" to leave at anytime. Not being evacuated yet.

atb · 06-18-2005, 10:18 PM

Yeah I live in Erlton, and was told to go back home or they'll be "forced to kick the door in to turn shinguard off". All the condos across from me are being evacuated right now.

Eddie Bronze · 06-18-2005, 10:29 PM

Hmmm, the lady I rent from lives in a condo in Erlton. She just got back from a vacation too, welcome home!

Well, this settles it for me then. I've been looking to buy and now there's no question, I'm looking in Rocky Ridge/Royal Oak. No flooding for me thanks.

shoestring · 06-18-2005, 10:29 PM

Wow Jiri and atb112 that is scary.Do they need help down there or what.??

latest stats ;

RELBGLEN 2005-06-16 08:30:00 1.485 52.85

and today

RBOWCALG 2005-06-18 12:00:00 2.655 536.78
RBOWCALG 2005-06-18 12:15:00 2.689 551.95
RBOWCALG 2005-06-18 12:30:00 2.745 577.95
RBOWCALG 2005-06-18 12:45:00 2.786 598.35
RBOWCALG 2005-06-18 13:00:00 2.896 653.07
RBOWCALG 2005-06-18 13:15:00 2.950 680.19
RBOWCALG 2005-06-18 13:30:00 2.998 704.62
RBOWCALG 2005-06-18 13:45:00 3.061 737.84
RBOWCALG 2005-06-18 14:00:00 3.090 753.51
RBOWCALG 2005-06-18 14:15:00 3.087 751.89
RBOWCALG 2005-06-18 14:30:00 3.083 749.73
RBOWCALG 2005-06-18 14:45:00 3.093 755.14
RBOWCALG 2005-06-18 14:55:00 3.099 758.38
RBOWCALG 2005-06-18 15:00:00 3.091 754.05
RBOWCALG 2005-06-18 15:15:00 3.088 752.43
RBOWCALG 2005-06-18 15:30:00 3.098 757.84
RBOWCALG 2005-06-18 15:45:00 3.098 757.84
RBOWCALG 2005-06-18 16:00:00 3.098 757.84
RBOWCALG 2005-06-18 16:15:00 3.122 770.81
RBOWCALG 2005-06-18 16:30:00 3.135 777.84
RBOWCALG 2005-06-18 16:45:00 3.138 779.46
RBOWCALG 2005-06-18 17:00:00 3.139 780.00
RBOWCALG 2005-06-18 17:05:00 3.144 782.78
RBOWCALG 2005-06-18 17:15:00 3.124 771.89
RBOWCALG 2005-06-18 17:30:00 3.129 774.59
RBOWCALG 2005-06-18 17:45:00 3.123 771.35
RBOWCALG 2005-06-18 18:00:00 3.108 763.24
RBOWCALG 2005-06-18 18:15:00 3.146 783.89
RBOWCALG 2005-06-18 18:30:00 3.141 781.11
RBOWCALG 2005-06-18 18:45:00 3.129 774.59
RBOWCALG 2005-06-18 19:00:00 3.139 780.00
RBOWCALG 2005-06-18 19:15:00 3.129 774.59

That sure doesn't look friendly. Can we do anything?

Eddie Bronze · 06-18-2005, 10:31 PM

Just out of curiosity, those values you are posting shoe, what would they look like as normal levels of water?

Resolute 14 · 06-18-2005, 10:33 PM

I decided to go for a walk down Memorial Park as well.

Centre Street:

Edmonton Trail:

Tron_fdc · 06-18-2005, 10:33 PM

WTF, is the water STILL coming up down there????

Mango · 06-18-2005, 10:36 PM

Thank you for the updates and photos. This has all been a very surreal experience. Stay safe everyone.

Eddie Bronze · 06-18-2005, 10:37 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Tron_fdc@Jun 18 2005, 10:33 PM
WTF, is the water STILL coming up down there????

I think I read in this thread that someone said it's not supposed to crest until 6am tomorrow.

Tron_fdc · 06-18-2005, 10:42 PM

Looks like they're evacuating.....

cfcn link

Hope all is well for people in those communities

cheung31 · 06-18-2005, 10:44 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Eddie Bronze@Jun 18 2005, 09:31 PM
Just out of curiosity, those values you are posting shoe, what would they look like as normal levels of water?

i heard on QR77 that the flow rate currently is 9x more than normal.

JiriHrdina · 06-18-2005, 10:48 PM

Still haven't been evacuated and I don't think I will be. They are obviously shipping out everyone that is on the river. I've cleared out the basemen of all valuable stuff and informed my cat she may have to take a car ride with me tonight (she wasn't impressed).

The amazing thing is how dumb people are. There is a swinging bridge across the river down here (some may know the bridge I'm referring too) and people were folling around on it earlier. DUMB!

I wish people would just stay away from the affected areas - at least with their cars. The police are trying to get things organized and there's a ton of cars from people just coming to take a peek.

Incidently the house I live in was my grandma's house built in 1931. My mom grew up in the house and by her recollection doesn't recall the river ever getting like this. Her older sister agreed. Pretty interesting to think this is probably a once every 50 years type of thing.

cheung31 · 06-18-2005, 10:48 PM

yay the news is on