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Thread: Alberta Mags: Is It Time to Build an Ark?

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    Alberta Mags: Is It Time to Build an Ark?

    i'm sure i can round up two of everything if they haven't drowned already. 24 hour rain total in banff is 51.4mm with another 35-45mm overnight and 15mm expected tomorrow. considering our monthly average for june is 61mm this is a bit of a shocker. i can imagine high river, turner valley and black diamond are getting completely effed again.

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    Glad I'm working somewhere warm and dry for the summer then!
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    So Mel when you dropping by for a drink? Its 43°C out and the chance of getting 1mm of rain for the next 3 months is less than 1%. But really still getting rain.
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    2cm of fresh snow in banff TOWN right now.

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    Float on up north, it rained up here but nothing serious and no flooding. Also no snow in town here but the cloud cover is to low to check the snow line I will look as soon as they lift. Hey mntlion skiing the parkway anytime soon?
    Move along nothing to see here.

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    ya might be a good one today.


    not sure when, but isn't it 3rd week june totem cup? is that still going? Is it July?

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    Quote Originally Posted by mntlion
    2cm of fresh snow in banff TOWN right now.

    holyshitfire

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    I've got a buddy working at Atabasca and apparently it snowed... glacier skiing anyone?

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    Quote Originally Posted by mntlion
    ya might be a good one today.


    not sure when, but isn't it 3rd week june totem cup? is that still going? Is it July?
    third week of july. I think it's going to be a bit of a memorial for John Peck this year.

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    ... You can't really live in a place called High River and then get mad when the river gets high...
    Believe.

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    Quote Originally Posted by powslut
    i'm sure i can round up two of everything if they haven't drowned already. 24 hour rain total in banff is 51.4mm with another 35-45mm overnight and 15mm expected tomorrow. considering our monthly average for june is 61mm this is a bit of a shocker. i can imagine high river, turner valley and black diamond are getting completely effed again.

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    GET AFTER IT!

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    I just moved to Calgary 2 weeks ago... Everyone telling me this place is dry is full of shit... 10 days of rain in the past 2 weeks'ish?

    I was going to go car shopping today but don't feel like it after looking out the window.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bigtrubs
    ... You can't really live in a place called High River and then get mad when the river gets high...
    It's akin to living somewhere named "Earthquaketown" or owning a trailer in "Tornado Alley"
    Last edited by powslut; 06-18-2005 at 11:38 AM. Reason: spelling

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    anybody up for sunshine tomorrow?


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    I wish, I just bought a car today so could do the drive!

    Gonna be a good hike up to the base

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    Quote Originally Posted by powslut
    third week of july. I think it's going to be a bit of a memorial for John Peck this year.

    I think that's the right dates, I'll have to check. I have some friends coming back to town for it this year I think i will have to head back down, haven't been in about 5 years.
    Move along nothing to see here.

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    yah, i don't think i can pull a trip to sunshine tomorrow -- sunnyside area (where i live) is mostly closed off with the bow river near the overflowing tip. prince's island is no more. memorial drive is a swimming pool. the river is full of nutty cayakers, cops chasing them and picnick tables swimming happily. we've barricaded ourselves indoors with lots of liquor.

    hey, bakers, thursdays is cheap beer at the ucalgary pub (the den) we should get together if i can sober up for next week (i defended my thesis yesterday, yay i'm a master!)

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    Quote Originally Posted by f2f
    yah, i don't think i can pull a trip to sunshine tomorrow -- sunnyside area (where i live) is mostly closed off with the bow river near the overflowing tip. prince's island is no more. memorial drive is a swimming pool. the river is full of nutty cayakers, cops chasing them and picnick tables swimming happily. we've barricaded ourselves indoors with lots of liquor.

    hey, bakers, thursdays is cheap beer at the ucalgary pub (the den) we should get together if i can sober up for next week (i defended my thesis yesterday, yay i'm a master!)

    haha nice, I was downtown and saw the river its nuts... I'm living right across from the University train station.

    Congrats on the masters, I'm starting my masters stint.
    Cheap beer eh? I just moved here so don't really know anything about the pub... how cheap is cheap? I'd probably be up for something. Cowboys has the cheap draft thursday, was there last week and that interesting to say the least.

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    stay off the hills for now, fresh snow up high, but it is NOT stable at all, stuff was moving tonight on the drive canmore to banff. Give it a few days to bond then ski it

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    http://www.mytelus.com/news/article....icleID=1958565

    Sounds fun......

    We haven't had much this go round. Today was nice and sunny. Yesterday we had the hardest rain I've ever seen in AB, reminded me of the rain we used ot get in Kansas City in the spring. There was an inch of water flowing down Mayor Magrath Drive. Stay dry Grace is up in Cochrane visiting the grandparents untill things settle down here with Kori (so that I can work instead of staying home with Grace, good thing its been to fucking wet to climb trees).

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    Quote Originally Posted by bakers_dozen
    how cheap is cheap? I'd probably be up for something. Cowboys has the cheap draft thursday, was there last week and that interesting to say the least.
    6 bucks for a pitcher (between 4pm and 8pm) is the cheap rate for grad students. cheaper beers have been spotted in the pubs of calgary, but not
    by reliable witnesses, to paraphrase the guide

    i wouldn't know about cowboys -- they won't let me in there because i don't wear the appropriate redneck attire

    mntlion: good advice!

    here are some pics of the floods for everyone else to see (this wasn't the worst-hit part of the city):






















    and movies in divx format:

    http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~mirtc...d-mvi_1596.avi
    http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~mirtc...d-mvi_1600.avi
    http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~mirtc...d-mvi_1602.avi
    http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~mirtc...d-mvi_1606.avi
    Last edited by f2f; 06-19-2005 at 12:36 AM.

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    30 some of hours of sandbagging in the last two weeks is enough. Where was all this moisture in Dec/Jan/Feb/Mar when it was cold enough to be useful.

    Here's the Sheep through Okotoks yesterday - looked a lot like this last week, too.


    The campground


    Used to be some fun singletrack running through


    The rivers normally half a km from here


    The river that's usually 30-40' across


    Downtowns a mess, we're just lucky that there aren't many houses built right down by the river.

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    Scary pix, Playharder and others.

    I was just reading the Alberta Environment forecaster notes from this afternoon. Drumheller is going to get nailed.

    Water flow in the tributaries of the Red Deer River are outrageous, and it's all headed for Drumheller. Peak flow on the Little Red Deer River late yesterday was 539 cubic meters per second. The average for this time of year is 6 cubic m/sec. Flood crest is expected to hit Drumheller sometime on Monday. No amount of sand bagging is going to save all those low lying areas of town. They are predicting a 1-200 year flood damage before this is over.

    I have a rain gauge at my house here in NE Calgary and during last week's three-day storm we had almost 9 inches. Yesterday (Saturday) we got 5 inches in about six hours.

    Ironically Calgarians were told this afternoon to conserve water, don't use dishwashers, waching machines and to take short showers. The water treatment plants can't handle the silty water from the rivers, so the production of treated water is way down. So of course water useage immediately spikes upwards, as thousands of stupid people fire up the washing machines etc to get some stuff done before water restrictions are imposed.

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    I like living at the headwaters (and on a hill)

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    I'll be back in a couple of days. Get that frickin' place dried out will ya, I've got no time for that shit.
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