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Residents of this small U.S. city along the Canadian border were assessing damage from flooding that hit an estimated three quarters of homes, as Washington state and British Columbia tried to dry ...
In a 1973 City of Calgary flood plain management report by Montreal Engineering Co. Ltd., estimates of flood-frequency of the Bow River upstream of the Elbow River in Calgary provided the following results: There is a 10-percent annual exceedance probability (AEP) flood or a 10-year flood return period with a peak flow or flood discharge ...
The 2019 spring floods in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick were exceptional floods in eastern Ontario, southern Quebec and from the St.John River region to New Brunswick, Canada. In fact, flooding along the Ottawa River has been recognized as the most important weather event of the year 2019 in Canada, and the one along the Saint John River as ...
The 2024 British Columbia floods were a series of floods, debris flows, and mudslides caused by an atmospheric river that struck Southwestern British Columbia from October 18 to October 20, 2024. Four people were killed during the event, two in the Lower Mainland and two on Vancouver Island .
The heavy storms left 167,000 customers without power at its peak, led to road closures, and resulted in more than 700 calls regarding basement flooding, the city said in a news release.
That one storm could within hours shut down a key engine in one of the world's biggest exporting nations highlights Canada's unique economic fragility. ... The massive rains that unleashed floods ...
The 2023 Nova Scotia floods were a series of floods in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. [2] [3] Areas in Nova Scotia received 250mm (9.8 inches) of rain in a 24 hour period, causing flash floods. [4] On July 22, 2023, a state of emergency was declared in the province, scheduled to last two weeks, ending on August 5.
Bridge closure, flooding cuts off Cambria neighborhood. At mid-morning, the San Luis Obispo County Public Works Department, Cambria Fire Department and other first responders put a hard closure on ...