#yycfloods

[vickilynn05]

Long walks by the riverside. #longwalks #riverside #yyc #yycfloods #damaged #hellorhighwater #iphone

[dolphinsdancer]

THIS is exactly why I ♥*heart*♥ both #Calgary+our Mayor @Nenshi: "The #BowRiver is CLOSED." #yycFlood.

Probably the BEST quote to date.. "Invoke the #DarwinLaw."

via @Mookalicious & @lite959

[miloucomehome]

According to the CBC apparently the power station that serves the downtown grid is badly damaged

Well then. That is bad. A crane downtown is unstable apparently because the ground it was on is suffering erosion too. I suspect this is in the eastern half on the Stampede Grounds. I remember there were cranes there and the grounds were completely flooded. (and a substation in the SE is on grounds flooded that are eroding so CAFs--Canadian Armed Forces-- are being sent there) High River is still bad. Geez. To non-Calgary Tumblr friends: Calgary's downtown is in the centre of the city. It's also where transit connections are routed. Yesterday (haven't checked road closures) because of the further closure of the downtown, I can't access the southern, north-eastern, eastern and western half of the city without a loooooooooong wait for a train and some detour shuttle hopscotch. At least I have some services here. Even while carless.

[miloucomehome]

There's a lot of hate being directed at Alberta during the floods

Granted I've never liked living here (since day one, in 1996), and have experienced very few positive events in my life here (I'll spare you the details. It hasn't been great), I could never stoop so low as to kick a part of the Canadian population while it's down. Yes there's the awful oil sands here in the north, no I don't think they're behind the floods, and nor does the province 'deserve it' because of its political leanings . If anyone was paying a modicum of attention, they would've learned a tornado-spawning storm system from the US came up here and did all this and is headed east (plus lots of snow was in the mountains after a rainfall from a week ago missed Calgary. The Rockies are the source of the Bow River) Or maybe because I'm a Quebecer living here, I'm used to (see: not really) the hate talk I get here and feel that really, despite all that, no one else deserves it. So, seriously, please everyone in the ROC even contemplating slamming the province, go put on your grown up pants and quit acting like a bunch of kids stuck in high school. This is a serious event that is going on here, not some petty school playground showdown.

[bbcssherlock]

Done high school!

My gosh you guys so there have recently been floods in downtown (no casualties have been reported by the way) in the city where I live, and we had a final exam to write on Monday and GUESS WHAT… NOT ANY MORE AHHHHHH I’m just happy we don’t have to write it anymore oh my GOD.

I am officially done high school as of today. I had one final exam to write and our mayor was cool enough to cancel it! Yay for Naheed Nenshi! ^^

[so-hft]

on the bright side now I can go canoeing downtown and no one can say shit #floodlife

[zombielovescore]

And it's raining again. It's okay, rain, it's not like half my city is underwater already. Stay safe, everyone.

[miloucomehome]

EDIT 2 (first map is mine based on the newest updates. I assume from 14th to Centre means the rest of the core's north. This entry was made private shortly after it was initially posted so I could properly source that)

Evacuation/Closure of the downtown core expanded west from Centre St to 14 St W (btwn 11 and 12th Ave SW) as of June 22nd.

https://twitter.com/cityofcalgary/status/348504294963683328

Don't expect to be able to get into the downtown today. Or this week. That is a total closure of the core and to the residential areas west.

(IMPORTANT NOTE (mostly for my non-Calgarian and Canadian Tumblr friends): The new evacuation areas are not flooded, but are probably included because of risk, the fact that the northern edge, the east and south of the downtown is flooded or partially. I can vouch for 14 St W bridge/Mewata Bridge that the water is very high there and yesterday police did block vehicular traffic there at 11th Ave SW. My office is along 7th Ave and is a few blocks from the Bow River. EDIT Global Calgary clarifying that it is precautionary so as to make police and emergency workers' work easier.) 

And this map on Google set up is very excellent for the extent of the evacuations in Calgary and the rest of Alberta. It does not include the newest expansion, yet.

http://google.org/crisismap/2013-alberta-floods

As of yesterday, Medcine Hat (3 hours SE) is under an evacuation order, and things up in Drumheller (2 hours NE), people are still trapped in Banff (1.5 hours NW, in the mountains) and part of the Transcanada Highway is washed out still and we could have some problems from the Elbow and Bow--the Elbow meets and flows into the Bow--as both try to empty. Apparently the Elbow could flow in the reverse as the Bow tries to flow out, and other hydrological shenanigans I don't understand but kind of comprehend!). This is far from over.

Hang in there!