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    The Flood of 2013: A Summer of Angry Rivers in Southern Alberta
    The Flood of 2013: A Summer of Angry Rivers in Southern Alberta
    The Flood of 2013: A Summer of Angry Rivers in Southern Alberta
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    The Flood of 2013: A Summer of Angry Rivers in Southern Alberta

    By Herald and Naheed Nenshi

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    The Flood of 2013 chronicles an unforgettable summer of angry rivers, unprecedented flooding and undeniable human spirit. This book looks at how the disaster irrevocably changed southern Alberta and its people. In the face of disaster, Albertans showed their true grit and rose above adversityjust like their ancestors did for generations before them.

    The flood began in southern Alberta on June 20 and led to four deaths, billions of dollars in damage and more than 100,000 people fleeing their homes to escape raging waters. More than eighty Herald journalistsphotographers, writers, editors, videographers, researchers and digital producersbecame involved in narrating the tale of the flood. Using their words and images, this stunning volume captures not only the devastation and destruction of the flood but also the emergence of heroes and heartfelt moments. Neighbours helped neighbours. Strangers helped strangers. And Albertans vowed to recover, come hell or high water.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGreystone Books
    Release dateSep 20, 2013
    ISBN9781771640343
    The Flood of 2013: A Summer of Angry Rivers in Southern Alberta

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      Book preview

      The Flood of 2013 - Herald

      The Flood of 2013

      THE FLOOD OF 2013

      A Summer of Angry Rivers in Southern Alberta

      by the CALGARY HERALD

      foreword by NAHEED NENSHI

      Storm clouds gathered near Waterton Lakes National Park on June 19, 2013, ushering in an intense rainstorm that hammered southern parts of the province the following day. Some areas of southern Alberta received more than 150 millimetres of rain in a twenty-four-hour period.

      (Leah Hennel/Calgary Herald)

      Copyright © 2013 by the Calgary Herald

      Foreword copyright © 2013 by Naheed Nenshi

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior written consent of the publisher or a licence from The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright). For a copyright licence, visit www.accesscopyright.ca or call toll free to 1-800-893-5777.

      Greystone Books Ltd.

      www.greystonebooks.com

      Cataloguing data available from Library and Archives Canada

      ISBN 978-1-77164-030-5 (cloth)

      ISBN 978-1-77164-034-3 (epub/pdf)

      Edited and compiled by Monica Zurowski, Michele Jarvie, Chris Varcoe, Norma Marr, Lorne Motley, Debbie Penno, Ted Rhodes, Darren Francey, Tony Seskus and Valerie Fortney

      Editing by Shirarose Wilensky

      Jacket design by Naomi MacDougall

      Photography by Colleen De Neve, Stuart Gradon, Leah Hennel, Lorraine Hjalte, Tijana Martin, Ted Rhodes, Christina Ryan and Gavin Young of the Calgary Herald; Craig Douce of the Rocky Mountain Outlook; and David Moll.

      For a full list of contributors, please see here.

      We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council, the Province of British Columbia through the Book Publishing Tax Credit and the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund for our publishing activities.

      FRONT JACKET PHOTOGRAPH: A woman holds a young boy as they wait to place him on a combine that was being used to evacuate people stranded at the Co-op supermarket on 12 Avenue SE in High River, Alberta, on Thursday, June 20, 2013. (Stuart Gradon/Calgary Herald)

      CONTENTS

      Foreword by NAHEED NENSHI

      1 / THE RAGING WATERS

      2 / DEVASTATION AND DESTRUCTION

      3 / THE CLEANUP

      4 / HELPING HANDS AND HEROES

      5 / HOW ALBERTANS SAW IT

      6 / HELL OR HIGH WATER

      BEHIND THE HEADLINES

      FOREWORD

      By NAHEED NENSHI

      WE WILL NEVER forget the summer of 2013.

      There are images that are burned into my mind forever. Things I never thought I would see.

      Some were awful.

      I saw the Bow and Elbow Rivers—those rivers that run in the bloodstream of every Calgarian—run higher and faster and angrier than ever before.

      I saw neighbourhoods under water and property ruined.

      I saw broken streets and bridges and hearts.

      But I also saw so much goodness. I saw the best of the human spirit. And I saw the best of public service.

      I was out of town when it became clear I would need to authorize a local state of emergency. After managing the situation by phone in the early hours, I arrived back in Calgary late that evening. After an on-the-ground briefing, I needed to see our city.

      Tha night, I drove with an incredibly patient and understanding police officer through the city. It was dark and quiet, most of the evacuations having been completed—the calm before the storm as we waited for the rivers to crest.

      I held my breath watching the Bow River nearly touch the bottom of the Langevin Bridge. Even in the police vehicle, we could not enter large parts of Bowness that were already under water. And I knew from pictures and news reports of the pain and damage upstream and downstream—in Canmore and Bragg Creek, on the Siksika First Nation and in High River.

      I spoke with incredibly tired guys who described themselves as labourers and were furiously bailing out the Glenmore water treatment plant to keep it, and our water supply, safe.

      I met police officers, in the twentieth hour of their shift, who were evacuating senior citizens in the middle of the night. There was a language barrier, people were scared and confused, and it would have been very easy for the whole situation to have gone very badly very quickly. But my police colleagues treated those citizens with such professionalism, care and love that I knew at that moment we were going to be okay.

      And in the ensuing days, I continued to see public service at its best. Colleagues at the waste water treatment plant who waded into the dark, fast water with pitchforks to save their plant. Folks who drove monster garbage trucks up and down streets to restore a bit of normalcy. Colleagues building a new road in one day and returning the CTrain to service in unbelievable time. We’re blessed to have them all.

      LEFT Mayor Naheed Nenshi joined the 2013 Calgary Stampede parade, which miraculously happened just two weeks after the flood.

      RIGHT Mayor Nenshi addressed the crowd at the Alberta Flood Aid benefit concert at McMahon Stadium.

      Certainly, I also thank the federal and provincial public servants—including full-time and

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