Look out Sask

[brian99]

Here comes the water. South Saskatchewan should hit your province Monday or Tuesday. I'm sure you've seen the pictures. Canmore flooded, High River flooded, Calgary flooded. Parts of Drumheller evacuated, parts of Medicine Hat evacuated. They cut the berm at Bassano dam, never happened since the dam was built. They closed the Bow River bridge on Highway 36 due to high water, never happened before. This is a big one. Bigger than '05, bigger than '95 by far. Stay safe.

[mcfarms]

Across the bow bridges closed 24 south
of Carseland, 547 south of Gleichen
,rumour is that one shifted and is done
for though not confirmed, 842 South of
Cluny. Have to get Sprayer south this
week and my usual drive it over is
seriously FUBAR'd.

[cottonpicken]

Any dollar figures on this event?

[errolanderson]

massive . . . transcanada blocked and certainly rail disruptions. also talk of downtown calgary disrupted for the next 2 weeks which is western canada's corporate headquarters.

until water recedes, damage will be unknown . . . may impact Canada's GDP this quarter.

[brian99]

Errol is right, it is too soon. Inspectors are going house by house in Calgary before letting people back in. Still water in most areas. Just trying to stop further damage in a lot of places.

[bucket]

At a minimum, its a billion dollars.

[errolanderson]

economic costs will likely be over a billion just in calgary alone . . . this will be staggering

[errolanderson]

Thank you Edmonton!! you sent firefighters, police, military even building inspectors . .

go oilers, eskimos . . . sort of.

Calgary would do the same, but hopefully the need will never occur.

[fjlip]

So sad! What a mess! In the last 5 years "STUCK RAIN" events have cost many billions in damage or lost income in the prairies.
Ruined a crop or several for most of us, even worse, homes and a life's work.
Absolutely NOTHING worse than TOO MUCH WATER!!!!
And all this is happening in a semi arid prairie???

[brian99]

Parts of Drumheller flooded this morning, downtown Medicine Hat as well. Good friends in both places.