Calgary Alberta Floods 2013 - Re-entries slowly starting

[ZenOps]

You can transfer ice cubes from freezer to fridge to extend the life a little.

Start making extra ice cubes early if you think there will be a power outage.

[bourge73]

Noooo what about Lanny!!!

[Kona9]

What are the chances of me getting to Highway 22 and west to 22x from Killarney via 37th? (and back) Is Glenmore closed prior to the 14th exit?

[bourge73]

It's so hard to make ice what an inconvience ...
God

[BerserkerCatSplat]

All the fairly widespread damage makes me wonder what effect it will have on housing prices in Calgary.

[flipstah]

Originally posted by BerserkerCatSplat
All the fairly widespread damage makes me wonder what effect it will have on housing prices in Calgary.

And on home insurance premiums. Shudder.

[finboy]

Originally posted by BerserkerCatSplat
All the fairly widespread damage makes me wonder what effect it will have on housing prices in Calgary.

Based on what I saw in sunny side, rental market is going to be even harder to get a place as much of that area is apartments that are under water

[DeleriousZ]

Gotta say I'm really impressed with the postal service. Got two packages today totally on time, even amidst all the chaos

[Disoblige]

Originally posted by BerserkerCatSplat
All the fairly widespread damage makes me wonder what effect it will have on housing prices in Calgary.

I wonder about the East Village/Victoria Park area condos. People would be like, "dude what if a flood happens, any car underground is fucked! Not living here.." It would be cool if those pre-built condos put in some sort of preventative measures in their underground design to minimize flooding.

I want to see how fucked the Arriva underground parkade is. Poor cars.

[FiveFreshFish]

Originally posted by DeleriousZ
Gotta say I'm really impressed with the postal service. Got two packages today totally on time, even amidst all the chaos

Hope so. Yesterday I mailed a cheque for my property tax that's due on the 28th.

[lilmira]

Originally posted by Disoblige

I wonder about the East Village/Victoria Park area condos. People would be like, "dude what if a flood happens, any car underground is fucked! Not living here.." It would be cool if those pre-built condos put in some sort of preventative measures in their underground design to minimize flooding.

I want to see how fucked the Arriva underground parkade is. Poor cars.

There is really nothing that you can do when you are surrounded by water. Where do you pump the water to?

[flipstah]

Originally posted by Disoblige

I wonder about the East Village/Victoria Park area condos. People would be like, "dude what if a flood happens, any car underground is fucked! Not living here.." It would be cool if those pre-built condos put in some sort of preventative measures in their underground design to minimize flooding.

I want to see how fucked the Arriva underground parkade is. Poor cars.

Maybe build a weir like what they did near Memorial and Deerfoot to prevent a flood from happening?

http://www.harviepassage.ca/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_control

OR A DRY MOAT!

EDIT: Check that out:

http://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/24/...-flood-tunnel/

[Disoblige]

Something like a flood gate for the underground parking.

[Duckman]

Originally posted by flipstah


And on home insurance premiums. Shudder.

hah! Just opened the mail, Avia just raised my deductable from $500 to $1000.

:"Due to the unending weather related losses"

[Prelude_dude]

Theo Fleury tweeted to the police:

@CalgaryPolice get to Bowness people are looting houses

People are ruthless....

[revelations]

I gotta hand it to Enmax, in 2007 when I was part of their group (as a land surveyor) we were asking the engineers hard questions about the wisdom of repairing 32 Sub (Douglasdale) after the 2005 floods (they should have completely relocated the poles away from the water).

They were adamant that the new poles and their support structures etc. would hold....against another flood.

Now you have areas that will be without power, possibly for weeks.

[lilmira]

Originally posted by Disoblige
Something like a flood gate for the underground parking.

Depending on high much water you are trying to stop, it's no different than building a dam, can be quite challenging.

[Tik-Tok]

Originally posted by Prelude_dude
Theo Fleury tweeted to the police:

@CalgaryPolice get to Bowness people are looting houses

People are ruthless....

Weird. How would the thieves know which houses were empty? It's not like the owners would mark the doors with a big X on their way out or anything

[sh0ko]

nvm

[DeeK]

Originally posted by Tik-Tok


Weird. How would the thieves know which houses were empty? It's not like the owners would mark the doors with a big X on their way out or anything

Funny, that's the FIRST thing I thought when I heard an X was put on the evacuated houses.