Cougar Creek was originally an Alluvial fan. When the town of Canmore was developed, an artificial creek was built to capture the water coming down from the mountains. When there's lots of water coming down from the mountains it wants to spread out over the fan as it would normally but it's instead forced into a small artificial creek.
Update: Thanks to a night of back filling by almost every available dump truck in town the bridge and road area saved from blow out. HUGE THANKS to all those who have worked crazy hrs and to the excavator operators. From a resident just down stream.
Its weird to think that while some feel like their little world is being torn assunder, those up the valley are (although sympathetic to the flood victims) are enjoying a work reprieve and mini survival exercise on how to make coco puffs go the distance.
Are you trying to win an Oscar with that music?
Cougar Creek was originally an Alluvial fan. When the town of Canmore was developed, an artificial creek was built to capture the water coming down from the mountains. When there's lots of water coming down from the mountains it wants to spread out over the fan as it would normally but it's instead forced into a small artificial creek.
Update:
Thanks to a night of back filling by almost every available dump truck in town the bridge and road area saved from blow out. HUGE THANKS to all those who have worked crazy hrs and to the excavator operators. From a resident just down stream.
Unbelievable!! prayers and thoughts are with those people
I used to play hockey at that outdoor rink there, So sad to see that & so many properties fall away.
Canmore is a beautiful town and part of the world. Sad to see this
Its weird to think that while some feel like their little world is being torn assunder, those up the valley are (although sympathetic to the flood victims) are enjoying a work reprieve and mini survival exercise on how to make coco puffs go the distance.
How quickly it can all just be washed away!
this is the 2013 for ya the time were the world will shift and this is only making us adapt, good luck and god bless yall
what does downtown canmore look like
wow i used to live in alberta :( so sad i feel bad for them
damn ...that is sucks ...how many days did it rain storm like that??
49bern13 it rained for like 12 days here
Agreed. This isn't some kind of fiction movie, what was the point of the audio?
what bridge is that?
looks fine except for by the hospital. the higschool intersection is a bit of a river but it should dry up soon.
That's crazy!!!!!
exshaw??
It's now coming to Calgary hole it's not to bad.
Badass
holy shit this is intense
Found it on google maps easily, runoff from the mnts. Crazy
It was the same thing with New york
the irony of the user's username
not a millionaire. that's a family of three they have a son who goes to my school. They just lost everything i think it's worse then you think. "lol"
wow looks like shit. glad i moved just before this.
sux 2 b that millionare lol