Let’s Check In On Regina

31 Replies to “Let’s Check In On Regina”

1. You gotta be a mouth breather if you don’t know your car is an air breather.

   1. L – + + +

   2. But, but, but … there’s an oxygen molecule in water! SCIENCE! … says it’s safe to drive through there. Right?

2. OMG! It looks like Nepal! Run!
   So sad … too late.

   1. Yeah… Run Karen, Run!!!

      But for those not very familiar with Saskatchewan it doesn’t look TOO much like Nepal.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a44JX4wdC8

3. Is that actually the 1, Canada’s sole East-West corridor?

   1. L – What are you saying? Has elbows up P.M. “the Banker” Carney tanked the Canadian economy? Being a wit by half, he blames the crisis on a foreign leader. When, if truth be said, he is that foreign leader, by proxy.

      1. I blame the Trade crisis on a foreign leader … Dear Leader Xi

   2. Number 1 Highway does have road signs with feeders in cities with ON and OFF ramps, one of which appears to be flooded in Regina.
      I haven’t driven on it for years, but last time I did it was a 4 lane highway leading into the foothills of the Rockies and then to Canmore.

   3. Nope. Albert Street at South Railway (now Sask Drive). One of several CPR underpasses. There are also more than a few level crossings that bisect Regina.

      Number One highway by-passes Regina well to the South now, although a really wet year may raise the specter of that flooding.

      1. Thanks.

4. A vehicular metaphor for Canada’s leaders. Clearly seeing disaster ahead, and yet continuing full steam ahead on the same route ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

5. Knees Up, Saskatchewan!
   As for that boat launch, if God had intended Regina to have a lake…

   1. https://www.esask.uregina.ca/entry/proglacial_lakes.html
      “Proglacial lakes covered thousands of square kilometres of Saskatchewan; many, such as the former Glacial Lake Regina, lasted less than 1,000 years. Today the silts and clays from this former lake support rich agricultural soil but pose considerable engineering difficulties: the clays, dominated by montmorillonite, have a tremendous ability to expand with the addition of water and to contract on its absence. This results in heaving and cracking of sidewalks, roads, and foundations. It is believed that when Glacial Lake Regina drained, it did so quickly and catastrophically, eroding a large channel now occupied by the much smaller contemporary Souris River.”

      1. Thanks for the info. I’ve been to Wascana Lake, Diefenbaker Lake, and Meadow Lake, so I knew the province has at least one that wasn’t man-made.

   2. … and the traffic engineers made one!

      Now … I’m no scientist or engineer … but couldn’t the overpass have been made taller? And the roadway underneath not sunken? As I said … I’m no government engineer or scientist.

      1. Ask a Canadian railway to give you an inch and they’ll charge you for a mile.

         1. And speaking of government workers … or railroad management …

            Isn’t there ANYONE from the Public Works Dept. with a couple portable barricades? With flashing warning lights? Or was it raining … and they didn’t want to get wet?

            Or has this NEVER happened before … because climate change caused it?

            1. It’s a Regina tradition.

      2. That’s the CPR line that has been there since the 1880s. Just a few cabins back then. The city grew up around it. To raise it three feet or so would require a rebuild of at least a couple of miles of railbed, since railroads can’t handle steep grades, and that would mess up the whole rail yard to the east and a couple of overhead road crossings to the west. Think billions of dollars. Ain’t gonna happen.

         There would be a storm drain in that underpass that is clogged with debris washed into it by the rain. Better maintenance might help, but the real solution is to simply not try to boat your way through it with a car.

         1. Fair enough. How about a 5,000 gpm pump and hardline drain discharge? Cheaper than a road grade change and all those other inconveniences?

            Again … I’m no government scientist or engineer.

6. Funny that.

7. From a distance you can tell this isn’t in Calgary, as they’re not on fire.

   When I lived in Regina (the city which rhymes with “fun”) this railway underpass would flood each year after any serious rain, this isn’t new nor the first time, I think the residents actually expect this after a real rain.

8. Perhaps a fish pictogram underneath the 4Metre height arrow might’ve helped.

9. https://www.tiktok.com/@oldcountryandweste/video/7496316323115322667

10. “O Canada! My moist and drenched land!!!!
    True patio flood, from all the storms command;
    With leaky boots and soggy socks, we proudly take our stand…”
    …and so on… it could be worse, we ain’t in Nepal (God help them all, living and otherwise).

11. lacking clear access past the new X screening process (l momentarily forgot my fake ID)
    l did a YT search. seems the flooded underpasses happens a lot.
    way ta go Vagina SK !!! civil engineering at its finest?

12. I wonder how deep the water is. Only one way to find out. Crap …

13. https://x.com/arlasko/status/2094448609303630247?s=20

14. This underpass is now sacred to Thunderfish. Adjust your reconciliation practices accordingly.

15. GYM loves the moist underpants of Regina.