16 Replies to “Panic In The Streets Of Calgary”

  1. The panic has faded, as Calgary is about to receive 3 more inches or the wet stuff.

  2. I understand a lot of realty inventory has been temporarily pulled of the MLS market while the sellers repair leaky roofs and basements 😉
    What a great time to buy a cow town FSBO…I’m on my way

  3. Ummm, that posting on Bumf was for tuesday the 14th. As I sit here in my downtown office right now it is absolutely POURING rain like it was Vancouver in November or something.

  5. Turner Valley is in the midst of another deluge as are the towns of Black Diamond, Okotoks and High River. The Sheep River is as high as it was a week ago and this rain is coming down in torrents. Not supposed to let up till tomorrow some time. Some streets are like rivers with drains on both sides not able to handle the volume, so the water is running down the middle of streets. Don’t know about houses on the low lying areas but for sure there will be basement flooding before this one is over.
    We live on a hill but today our drains all blocked up and the water was rising steadily, then one of the drains thankfully cleared itself.
    If its this bad in Turner Valley how bad is it in High River where flooding is a way of life. There will be many homes ruined tonight. Last week one couple had their basement totally flooded, and went to their cottage in Hidden Valley to find it was flooded too.

  6. Global Warming!!…Global Warming!!!
    Turn your car off, it’s melting the ice!
    /sarc off
    This cycle happened before, about 20-25 years ago, but it was a little further north. Guess drought in southern AB is over.

  7. Hey everyone… I got an ark going over at Exposed Agenda if anyone needs a dry place until we can get Moses to part the mighty Bow.
    Aizlynne
    Wet & Dry in Calgary

  8. 40 days and 40 nights, I guess God was a little pissed off.
    Wheres Noah, we might need him?
    I live in a basement in calgary, so far dry.

  9. tried to save what remains of my garden last night, soil hard as rock and my sweet peas are drowning..sob..I love my sweet peas and hate to see them distressed, any suggestions??
    Redux,
    I saw a couple of for sale signs along the Elbow River last week, those signs are under water today!

  11. Wow, there are a lot of us Calgarians in here. The rain has been truly crazy this Spring. On the plus side, we didn’t get our late-Spring heavy snow deluge this year, did we?
    Perhaps those homes along the Elbow should install portholes and then treat the high water as a feature in order to sell their homes?
    The folks in High River should have considered the name of the town before moving there, no? (Actually, I’d love to help them out down there – they must be plenty devastated).
    I’m not sure about the sweet peas, Kelly – I haven’t ventured outside to check on mine with this crazy rain.

  13. The Sheep River levels here in Turner Valley are down from last night and the rain stopped over night. Looks like Black Diamond got the worst of it, in this area and this morning I noticed many Vac Trucks cleaning out basements. But as Doug said Okotoks main street still under water and many folks in High River had to be evacuated. The good news is the heavy rainfall warning is over.

  14. The houses in Calgary along the elbow are 3/4-1.5 million dollar properties…all from location demand..they are really not constructed or maintained any better than a Haysboro bungalow…I bet there’s lotsa wet basements and leaky roofs in what the realtors used to call the golden mile : Elbow Park and Riverdale.
    There may be some rain damage sales for people with up to a mil$ to throw around on a DP 😉
    Myself,I’m more in the market for a HighRiver river side bungalow with a floating garden or an Okotoks sheep river frame bungalow with an indoor pool. ;-0

  15. We’re in the Three Hills area and we got a couple inches last night. I visited Pincher Creek last weekend and even though the worst was over then there were high water marks where there never should be high water marks.
    I guess the farmers are going to get rich this year not just the oilpatch.

  16. Well, my friends had a small leak in their basement last week when the first of the heavy rains came.
    I helped them demolish the walls and pull up the carpeting, which was ruined.
    This weekend, they had to go out of town to attend a family function, and asked me to “keep an eye on the place.”
    This morning, I arrived at their house to find the basement completely flooded, with hydrostatic pressure from the water column in the ground pushing water up from the middle of their basement floor (not to mention every other place there was even the tiniest flaw).  I’ve just spent the last eight hours pumping, draining and wet-vacuuming the place, and my wife’s spelling me off so I can get some food and rest.  My friends are on their way back from their function, having abandoned it early, and hopefully can take over from my wife in a couple of hours.
    And to top it all off, their house “insurance” company sounds like they’re refusing to cover any of the damage.
    My friends didn’t need this.  Nobody here needed this.

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