You may have seen this on our office cam...
Well, we had to leave because of this...
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It came out of no where. There has been a lot of rain lately. Where we are situated is at the base of the Rocky Mountains. There is a river called The Bow which is a glacier runoff of beautiful clean water from the Rocky's. The river is also fed by a few other rivers and lakes from north and west of the city.
This is what Calgary normally looks like...
Yesterday we were aware that the river had risen quite a bit. Alan and I were preparing to go to the gym when an officer came to our office and handed us an evacuation notice. There are a few dams up stream from Calgary that are unable to hold the water back any longer. They will be opening the damn and there was a concern that the city would flood.
Well, they were right... and no one expected what had happened.
I woke up this morning to this... Here is a short video from my iphone of in front of my house, and next to our office. My home currently has intermittent electricity, no gas, no hot water, no heat, and no drinkable water. Sirens are on constantly as fire trucks and police patrol the city.
We live in a beautiful city. I'm so grateful to watch the entire city work together. As homes are evacuated, everyone is offering couches to sleep on. With hundreds of thousands of people without a home and many without power, there have been no casualties. I'm very proud of our city!
Here are some photos that I had taken today near my home.
The Canadian Geese are happy
This is a very sad part. It's entirely emotional and hurts my heart. There is a great deal of destruction everywhere, however... This is the "stampede grounds". Also home of our NHL hockey arena for the Calgary Flames. The arena and grounds include historical material, such as trophies, jerseys, certificates and more. Generally, a long list of athletic records and awards. The arena (Saddledome) is currently filled with water up to the 10th row! All electronics, jumbo-tron and more are destroyed.
Now... here's facebook pics from other sources...
Here's some news sources with videos:
hope you are OK DJ
Update?
God, that reminds me of New Orleans and the US Gulf Coast during and after Hurricane Katrina back in 2005. However this looks even worse! I was a involved in all that and saw the best and worst of people come out of themselves. It's 7 years later and they are still dealing with the clean up. Best wishes for your city. I'm confident that the Canadian people have what it takes to pull together and move through this sad event. Rebuilding and clean up will be hard but your country is filled with compassionate, tough and hard working people.
When are the waters expected to recede? Any talk of needed help from outside Canada or do you guys got it covered?
apparently the military has dispatched a fair bit of troops to help. I think it's under control so far. anyone who owns a construction machine has been at work helping.
Source: new reports.
fingers crossed that some robots survive. As long as everyone is safe, ez-robot will be able to get through even tougher problems than flooding. with a supporting community of this scale, people who are in New Zealand for example that only found out via this forum are strongly supporting. No matter what hits ez-robot, we will all be able to get through it, even the hardest hit, because we're like a big, supportive, robot obsessed, family.
Hey, crazy idea coming to me.... mmmmhmmmmm... yes.... OK!
DJ, is there any way you could turn the office cameras on from your house? I know that power is an issue, but could it be possible? that way we could survey the damage.
Cameras and computers require power
Technopro, that sounds a bit morbid. Why gool over someones loss? DJ has shown lots of pictures and the news has covered the damage in the area very well. I'm sure DJ does not want his inversors, customers and friends seeing any problems (if any).
i'm afraid I never thought about it this way. sorry about that.
I guess your right about the power DJ.