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That's awful. My niece just suffered a similar flooding in the area she lives (Huntsville, ON).

I hope nobody suffers any losses that can't be easily replaced.

Stay safe.

:fingerscrossed:

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I believe both lanes of the motorway have been washed out at Canmore

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Best of luck everyone out there.

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Over 100,000 people evacuated. All schools closed for the day. Downtown core partially flooded and now closed off to everyone except emergency personnel.

Map showing Calgary flood evacuation areas: http://www.cbc.ca/news/interactives/map-calgary-floods/

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This was the Bow River in Cochrane at about 8.30pm last night. It's due to crest by early this morning. Haven't seen the river today yet but I know they were about half an hour away from evacuting one neighbourhood last night.

Amazing images coming out of Calgary this morning - my heart just sinks for the mess to be cleared up.

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I seem to remember someone saying that the main problem in 2005 was that one of the dams downriver got blocked up with debris, and that caused a backlog of water that caused all the flooding. Hopefully that won't happen again, and it won't be as severe.

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CBC Radio are broadcasting the Calgary morning show from my work - they were evacuated. Our campus also housed nearly 200 evacuees last night in the college residence. It's a mess out there.

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Pretty much everywhere near a river has been evacuated, all along the Bow and Elbow rivers, and all the bridges over the rivers have been closed, so basically stay home.

This is the reason why when people ask on here where they should look for housing I say to check whether you're in a floodplain or not.

Looked from the news like there had been serious property damage along the Bow River in Canmore. Not to mention flooding in Black Diamond and Turner Valley.

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http://www.envinfo.gov.ab.ca/FloodHazard/

Look at High River - it becomes obvious why it got it's name. I have a building I engineered going up right where highway 2a forks east, north of the town. Haven't heard anything from the site yet, but I'm guessing they have some water issues.

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That looks worse than the floodplain map for Calgary, but on the other hand they might be being cautious. I bet that guy who bought Jarome Iginla's house for $3.9 million the other day is properly pissed off.

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That's really useful, much better than the city maps.

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I think most of the damage in Canmore is along Cougar Creek.

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+1. except the niece bit...

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Estimated three times the amount of water as the 2005 flood they just said on the news. But the dams are in better shape.

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Police still out looking for speeding canoes and boats.

Doesn't look good out there from the tweets that are tweeting