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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 ...
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 ...
Floods: Manitoba Emergency Measures Act [13] 2013 Floods: Alberta Emergency Management Act [14] 2014 Assiniboine River flood: Manitoba Emergency Measures Act [15] [16] 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire: Alberta Emergency Management Act [17] Opioid epidemic: British Columbia Public Health Act [18] [19] 2017 Wildfires: British Columbia Emergency ...
While other flooding lakes tend to gather more attention, Neptune's Lake Alberta is troubling many people along its shores.
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.
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 ...
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. [ 16 ] 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 ...
On June 21, 2013, during the 2013 Alberta floods Alberta experienced heavy rainfall that triggered catastrophic flooding throughout much of the southern half of the province along the Bow, Elbow, Highwood and Oldman rivers and tributaries. A dozen municipalities in Southern Alberta declared local states of emergency on June 21 as water levels ...