[Thanos]

Some of the CBC comment folks were apparently being their usual classy selves, saying we deserved it because of all the oil companies here. Oh well, not my duty to worry too much about what the petty and the small of character think.

[jj2424]

MeganC MeganC:

Lemmy Lemmy:

What were once once-in-a-century events aren't any longer.

Has this happened any other time this century? I mean if they are getting floods that much then why aren't they doing something about it like building a dam or moving to higher ground?

There are dams on each river ,you can only hold back so much water before it comes over the spillways. Moving the downtown core which is original(old) Calgary is impossible.

If spring would bloody well start in April instead of May this wouldn't be an issue. Just last month local "experts" were preaching to the "Global Warming" congregation that southern Alberta would run out of water because the mountains were getting smaller snowpacks.

More bullshit.

[jj2424]

Lemmy Lemmy:

Thanos Thanos:

City's about fifty times the size now that it was when this thing last happened eighty years ago. The last several days have been a one-off mix of heavy mountain rain accelerating the ongoing snow-melt. In two months it'll probably be so dry that the flooded river running through downtown will be a trickle and the farmers downstream along the Bow will be bitching like crazy about their crops needing rain.

Yes, greater and more frequent extremes.

We haven't had a dry summer in 10 years, it's been consistant so has the complaining from the farmers.

[HaRdLy]

saturn_656 saturn_656:

Quite a few folk are going to find out if their insurance is worth anything.

No insurance company in Canada offers flood insurance under a home policy.

[Alta_redneck]

The Red Deer River event never happened there was some minor flooding, the water came up to with in 2' of the 2005 level.

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[bootlegga]

Thanos Thanos:

In two months it'll probably be so dry that the flooded river running through downtown will be a trickle and the farmers downstream along the Bow will be bitching like crazy about their crops needing rain.

It's just going to get worse in the coming years - most rivers on the Prairies are glacier-fed and they are receding at an incredible rate.

[jeff744]

HaRdLy HaRdLy:

saturn_656 saturn_656:

Quite a few folk are going to find out if their insurance is worth anything.

No insurance company in Canada offers flood insurance under a home policy.

The provincial and federal governments will foot a good chunk of the bill.

[jeff744]

jj2424 jj2424:

Lemmy Lemmy:

Thanos Thanos:

City's about fifty times the size now that it was when this thing last happened eighty years ago. The last several days have been a one-off mix of heavy mountain rain accelerating the ongoing snow-melt. In two months it'll probably be so dry that the flooded river running through downtown will be a trickle and the farmers downstream along the Bow will be bitching like crazy about their crops needing rain.

Yes, greater and more frequent extremes.

We haven't had a dry summer in 10 years, it's been consistent so has the complaining from the farmers.

Which area do you consider "we"? The prairies have areas that are still begging for rain and other areas that are begging for none. Hell, I can drive about an hour north of my location and be in dry country despite being in wet country right now. And if I went a few hours south I would pass through some dry and then into some wet again.

[ShepherdsDog]

Manitoba and Saskatchewan are preparing for flooding as Alberta drains eastward

[jj2424]

jeff744 jeff744:

Which area do you consider "we"? The prairies have areas that are still begging for rain and other areas that are begging for none. Hell, I can drive about an hour north of my location and be in dry country despite being in wet country right now. And if I went a few hours south I would pass through some dry and then into some wet again.

"We"
try reading the headline..it holds a clue.

[martin14]

Story's gone international, being carried over here.

Good luck to our Alberta peeps.

[Freakinoldguy]

Thanos Thanos:

Some of the CBC comment folks were apparently being their usual classy selves, saying we deserved it because of all the oil companies here. Oh well, not my duty to worry too much about what the petty and the small of character think.

It's good to know that unlike the rest of the world the CBC has a direct line to mother nature because, I thought the floods were God's way of saying that as a democratic, white, Christian country we should never allow anyone to elect a Muslim as Mayor.

(sarcasm off)

When the CBC says ignorant things like this all it does is point out why they shouldn't be allowed to suckle on the taxpayer teat, especially since they seem hell bent on only representing the vocal minority of Socialist leaning Canadians that they agree with.

[Lemmy]

Dude, people who post comments on stories on the CBC website aren't CBC employees.

[jj2424]

Lemmy Lemmy:

Dude, people who post comments on stories on the CBC website aren't CBC employees.

You're right. They're paid party members of the LPC and so are their moderators. Read some of their crap here.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2 ... loods.html

Nothing but the usual left wing shit, post after post.

[Thanos]

To counterbalance the shit-headery from the left, some GOP/TeaBircher-echoing trog got onto one of the SUN stories and started commenting that the government shouldn't do anything to help anyone who chooses to live next to a body of water. Good to see that the left-wing pratfalls are always counterbalanced from one of Ron Paul's ultra-rightist bastards who are also very reliable at inevitably showing they have no class, no heart, and no soul.

The middle of the road is all the usable surface. The extremes of left and right remain in the gutters.