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.

[sumdumguy]

What do you think will happen in the Qu'Appelle
Lakes in Sask?

B'say-tah Village says they were assured there
would be no effect on Echo Lake.

[brian99]

On the news today "100,000 people affected, Alberta government commits 1 billion dollars the rebuild effort."
I've watched trees float by for days. Thousands of them. Won't they all end up in Lake Diefenbaker?

[DogPatch]

Tucson, AZ
97°
Feels Like: 97°
10:00 pm
91°
1:00 am
82°
First Alert Radar
7-Day Forecast
Interactive Radar
My Tucson Home · Health Connection · 51313Local · Job Link · AZ Centennial · Coupons

HOME
More Top Headlines
Weather
Sports
SEE SNAP SEND
CONTESTS
LIFESTYLE
Program Guide
Community Pages
About Us

Share on twitter
Share on gmail
Share on stumbleupon
Share on email
Share on print
More Sharing Services0

Canadian Pacific recovery from Southern Alberta Floods ahead of schedule

Information contained on this page is provided by an independent third-party content provider. WorldNow and this Station make no warranties or representations in connection therewith. If you have any questions or comments about this page please contact pressreleases@worldnow.com.

SOURCE Canadian Pacific

CALGARY, June 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Canadian Pacific (TSX:CP) (NYSE:CP) announced today its main line west of Calgary through the Banff-Canmore region of Alberta is now open after railway operations crews successfully restored segments impacted by the extreme weather last week. A portion of its track in Calgary is expected to re-open this evening, fully restoring the railway's main line. A segment of CP's south line to Lethbridge, Alberta will be fully restored by Thursday.

Heavy rainfall and the accelerated snowcap melt in the Rockies over the past several days caused severe flooding and many Southern Alberta communities remain evacuated and under states of emergency including Calgary.

While the affected segments of the railway's main line were being fully restored, the railway detoured a number of its trains on the south western part of its network and was assisted by CN and other carriers over the weekend.

"Considering the devastating impacts to thousands of people and property that this extreme weather left in its path, I commend the resiliency and dedicated efforts of all our CP railroaders, who safely worked to get our network back in service so quickly," said CP Chief Executive Officer, E. Hunter Harrison, who noted during the four-day period, crews responded to over forty individual locations impacted by high water in both Alberta and the British Columbia interior.

"The force and extent of this flooding was extensive and evolved from hour-to-hour. As locations were identified, CP crews responded with equipment and resources and carefully managed to safely and systematically restore each outage," said Harrison.

Harrison continued, "Despite the significant recovery efforts and interruption to railway operations, CP maintains its previously provided guidance for 2013."

Note on Forward-Looking Information
This news release contains certain forward-looking statements relating but not limited to our operations, anticipated financial performance, planned capital expenditures, and business prospects. Undue reliance should not be placed on forward-looking information as actual results may differ materially.

By its nature, CP's forward-looking information involves numerous assumptions, inherent risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to the following factors: changes in business strategies; general North American and global economic, credit and business conditions; risks in agricultural production such as weather conditions and insect populations; the availability and price of energy commodities; the effects of competition and pricing pressures; industry capacity; shifts in market demand; inflation; changes in laws and regulations, including regulation of rates; changes in taxes and tax rates; potential increases in maintenance and operating costs; uncertainties of investigations, proceedings or other types of claims and litigation; labour disputes; risks and liabilities arising from derailments; transportation of dangerous goods; timing of completion of capital and maintenance projects; currency and interest rate fluctuations; effects of changes in market conditions and discount rates on the financial position of pension plans and investments; and various events that could disrupt operations, including severe weather, droughts, floods, avalanches and earthquakes as well as security threats and governmental response to them, and technological changes. Other risks are detailed from time to time in reports filed by CP with securities regulators in Canada and the United States. Reference should be made to "Management's Discussion and Analysis" in CP's annual and interim reports, Annual Information Form and Form 40-F.

[DogPatch]

Sorry.......... got a little sloppy with the Cut and Paste. The rail-lines are down, but should be back in operation this week.