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Calgary Zoo flood rebuild now complete
An adorable meerkat family is huddling around its new babies just born at the Calgary Zoo’s Destination Africa building. Five of the wide-eyed, furry creatures create a rounded, living shell with their...
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Academics to gather lessons learned from flood survivors
As the June 2013 flood engulfed the town of High River, neighbours and support groups turned to nearby resident Caroline McDonald-Harker for help. “They started calling me: ‘You’re a sociologist; we...
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Drone reveals how floods rearranged river
Flying over a stretch of the Elbow River with a drone before and after the massive flood two years ago has allowed researchers to learn how the event widened and straightened the meandering watercourse...
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McLean Creek dam best option for protecting city from large floods
The province’s own modelling shows Calgary would be better protected from large floods by a dry dam that would halt most of the Elbow River’s peak flow rather than the favoured diversion canal that...
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Damaged home coming down as Canmore flood mitigation inches forward
As the town of Canmore continues flood mitigation work along Cougar Creek, which turned into a raging torrent during the 2013 floods, one of the last visible reminders of the natural disaster is being...
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Keeping the faith: Family living a full life in wake of tragedy
The house is smaller and the neighbours are closer, now next door instead of across a field. So much has changed for the Nelson family since their world was turned upside down during the worst flood in...
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Three years later, lessons being learned from the 2013 flood
As the Bow River runs through the Rockies, it moves from a lake at the bottom of a glacier high up in Banff National Park through a steep valley, winding through stands of century-old Lodgepole pine....
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Calgary outlines flood readiness plans as the rainy season looms
Flood forecasters with the city say conditions are wetter than they’ve been for the past two years, but add Calgary’s unique geography makes it impossible to predict whether citizens should break out...
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CLUNY, Alta. — Some residents of an Alberta resort community destroyed by flooding two years ago are going to court to try to recoup some of their losses from an insurance company. Hidden Valley, about...
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After the Deluge: Five years later, people are still dealing with the aftermath
Florence Laycraft and her adult son, Ken, were at their High River home when the flood came. The water first filled the streets, then rushed in a foot-high wave across the schoolyard behind their...
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