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The AccuWeather Local StormMax™ for this weekend storm is 30 inches, with the likelihood for the highest snowfall accumulations to occur across the southern Canadian provinces of southeastern ...
Total damage estimates exceeded C$5 billion and in terms of insurable damages, made the 2013 Alberta floods the costliest disaster in Canadian history at $1.7 billion, until the occurrence of the 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire. Receding waters gave way to a mammoth cleanup of affected areas, aided by a spontaneous volunteer campaign in which many ...
2013 Alberta floods: Flood southwest Alberta around Calgary Region: Prairies 5 2013 July 6: Lac-Mégantic rail disaster: Rail accident Lac-Mégantic, Quebec: Central Canada 47 2013 September 18: Ottawa bus–train crash: Rail-traffic accident Ottawa, Ontario Central Canada 6 2014 January 23: L'Isle-Verte nursing home fire: Fire L'Isle-Verte ...
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According to the Red River Basin Task Force News, the Red River Flood of 1997 "deserved the superlative, the 'flood of the century'." [10] The flood along the Red River of the North in North Dakota, Minnesota, and Southern Manitoba, in April and May 1997 was the most severe Red River flood since 1826. The International Joint Commission (IJC)'s ...
Weather service flood stages, from least to most severe, are action, minor, moderate and major. "That could all still change," Borth said. "Right now, it looks like the rivers are likely to flood.
Unlike the 2005 flood, the Glenmore water treatment facility had no difficulty treating water. City officials did, however, implement municipal outdoor watering restrictions to ensure water quality remained high throughout the incident. Government officials called the flooding the worst in Alberta's history.
The Highwood River is subject to frequent flooding. Flood events of exceptional magnitude occurred in 1894, 1899, 1902, 1908, 1912, 1923, 1929, 1932, 1942, 1995, 2005 and 2013. [ 1 ] Most recently during the 2013 Alberta floods , thousands of people in Alberta were ordered to evacuate their homes after the rise of the Highwood River, Bow River ...