Saturday, June 22, 2013

SIR RICHARD’s CALGARY FLOOD 2013


SIR RICHARD’s CALGARY FLOOD 2013
These are my photos of Calgary’s now historic flood. Only as a kid in the 1960’s
did it flood like this and in the 1920’s as the ice flows during Spring break up on the Bow and Elbow rivers.
In the 1960’s to around 1970’s the town of Bowness and Montgomery where flooded quite bad from the bow river and since then, only Spring rains and mountain snow runoff seemed to flood the poor Homes and Apartments along the Elbow River below the Glenmore Reservoir.
Though I am only an amateur photographer my health (Heart Disease) makes it hard to walk down to the river. Also the Police had the area blocked off and with good reason. It would just take falling into an open man-hole or driving into one to ruin your day big time!
I hope you like my photos and here is a song to go with my Eye Candy.
Stevie Ray – Texas Flood:
To give those an idea of how bad the damage is I added the below video, though we are not bad off as Katrina (which I assisted in clean up) or the poor folks who suffered through Hurricane Sandy.
Stampede grounds and Macleod trail, Calgary downtown flooding:
Sincerely and with LOVE to you all!
AND THE WATERS RECEDED…
THE SUN ONCE AGAIN SHONE UPON THE LAND.
AS LIFE SLOWLY RETURNED TO THE NORM.
From,
Sir Richard…

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