This is incredible video... the first I've seen showing that kind of damage to Hwy 1. For those not familiar, that's our national "interstate" highway that goes right across the country. So much devastation to the region, but it looks like Canmore has been hit hardest. Thoughts are with you all there.
I drive on this area of the highway every year. Canmore is a beautiful town and it's hard to believe this small creek can do so much damage. When I drive over it, it's more rocks than water. The creek is normally a small trickle. Because I have been to this town numerous times, my prayers are with them, as well as my home town, Calgary. Downtown is totally underwater. It's so sad.
Insider news: at least 8 houses have been washed away, hundreds of people were evacuated this morning and are staying in the larger buildings in town. Not only is there the road damage you see here, but the West side is closed off as well, we're isolated. All access to Banff is also closed, Exshaw is being evacuated too (at least one home gone there), and so is Harvie Heights, which has ran out of water and has major mud slides. I hope the flood stops soon and we can all recover from the damage.
I lived in Banff and Canmore for years and never saw anything like this. I hope all my friends in the area are unaffected by this. Good luck all of you. You're all strong people with great respect for nature and home. You'll do fine!
Canadians are the most resilient people in the world - they will overcome this with great strength and fortitude. They're out there making the most of this and better yet, they see the same kind of behavior in winter conditions, this is just the summer version of a blizzard. GO CANADA!
BC is pulling for you as well, we had a whole bunch of this last year!!! Recovery is slow and painful and very expensive, but it will happen. Good luck with everything!
I lived in canmore for 20 years, and I'd only saw Cougar Creek with water in it maybe 2-3 times per year. We'd always had trouble with the Hwy 1 culverts plugging up with rocks when the creek got moving. Always knew in the back of my head that one day this might happen, but never imagined this kind of destruction. I know a dozen people that live along the creek in Eagle Terrace and further down.. Hope this stops soon...
i lived in canmore, actually not far from the creek but way up on the hill, for close to 20 years, and never saw anything like this before.. that creek rarely ever even had water in it. mostly just for spring runoff.. this is sooo bad...
What part of Calgary is she in.. We are across from the COP NW in Greenwood just above Bowness which has had some evacuations by the river and the park. so we are OK up on a hill..and the river is below us I hope you reach her and she is OK
HOLY CRAP !! .. I just found this bridge on Google street view .. incredible how the "Creek" just decided to run right down HWY #1 and wash everything out ! .. What is the next bridge like for West? that creek must be a massive river to have caused all this damage !
You see what I mean?...it does not matter who is right...Do you want to be right or happy. Do you want to fight with your wife or have a happy marriage...? Love is the answer to all of our problems and the beauty of our souls will prevail....selfishness transmuted to selflessness....Until we all learn this lessons we keep coming back again and again..We are offered million of chases to smarten up until we eventually become love... Love you all Stefan from Coventry Hills Calgary
Didn't they just finish that section of highway. Why would they put runoff in between the roads. Seems pretty obvious especially in that part of the province.
I live here, you can actually see my house in this video,we've been evacuated earlier this morning, but I am safe now. Not sure if the same can be said for my house.
Wow, well done video. I don't know how many times I took that road in the past, so I know the spot and it is not recognizable except the bridge. This is horrible, the engineers really have their hands full thinking of a way to redirect all the water in future. Lots of diggin' needed there. I can't believe the amount of water flowing this year (world wide). Should we build an Ark?
Excellent camera work showing the devastation. That's going to cost a few barrels of oil to repair and give the engineers and hydrologists a big challenge. Nature always teaches us big lessons. Hope everyone in Canmore is OK.
The storm system was bottled up against the mountains by a high pressure system, and abnormal easterly winds. Environment Canada: "As of 6:40 a.m. Friday, a storm system bringing rain to southern Alberta was trapped there by the Rocky Mountains, easterly winds and a high pressure system hanging over the northern part of the province." Climate scientists agree these conditions are encouraged by a warmer atmosphere. Incidentally, warmer air is less dense and holds more moisture.
I really hope nobody gets hurt in all of this. I didn't realize that the trans-canada got hit so hard. Stay safe everybody. Keep on your local news reports for updates.
(continued..) Now in Jan 2013, a group of 20 "Apollo era NASA retirees" has put together a rudimentary climate "report" and issued a press release declaring they have decided human-caused global warming is not "settled" and is nothing to worry about. The project is headed by H. Leighton Steward, a 77-year-old former oil and gas executive. The press release also links the NASA group to his website, "co2isgreen", which also has an extensive history of receiving fossil fuel industry funding.
From the same wikipedia page you're cherry-picking from: "97-98% of the most published climate researchers say humans are causing global warming. In another study 97.4% of publishing specialists in climate change say that human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing mean global temperatures."
That is dreadful. Not just for the local area but all the businesses that rely on the transcanada. But if anyone can find a way to create a workaround until repairs are completed; it's Albertans.
WELL to all my hommies back in alberta hope u guys are all ok KINDA GLAD I MOVED 2 years ago now LOL... just kidding wish i was there with u all everythign will get better soon don't worry ALBERTA....
The OISM petition was never independently verified. It's results and methodology were kept secret, unlike legitimate polling of the scientific community which is open peer-reviewed. Only a handful of accredited climatologists have endorsed the petition, which only required BSc qualifications to sign. Peer-reviewed studies which demonstrate scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change: Oreskes 2004, Oreskes 2007, Doran and Zimmerman (2009), Anderegg et al. (2010), Cook et. al., 2013.
Academia Brasiliera de Ciencias (Brazil) - Royal Society of Canada - Chinese Academy of Sciences - Academie des Sciences (France) - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (Germany) - Indian National Science Academy - Accademia dei Lincei (Italy) - Science Council of Japan - Academia Mexicana de Ciencias (Mexico) - Russian Academy of Sciences - Royal Society (UK) - National Academy of Sciences (US). All have issued statements confirming consensus on anthropogenic global warming.
From the same wikipedia page you cherry-picked that from: In 2007, Harris Interactive surveyed 489 randomly selected members of either the American Meteorological Society or the American Geophysical Union for the Statistical Assessment Service (STATS) at George Mason University. The survey found 97% agreed that global temperatures have increased during the past 100 years. [...] Only 5% believe that human activity does not contribute to greenhouse warming."
William Soon has received over a million dollars in funding from the petroleum and coal industries, multiple grants from the American Petroleum institute totalling $274,000 between 2001 and 2007, and grants from Exxon Mobil to the tune of $335,000 between 2005 and 2010. Thirteen scientists have published papers explicitly refuting his "Climate Research" publication. Refutations included selectivity in datasets, deliberate obfuscations, and climate models rendered from already disproven data.
You are distorting what has been said. Increases in atmospheric temperatures have these effects: 1) Air holds more moisture 2) High pressure systems persist longer in northern latitudes 3) Jet streams fluctuate less often in northern latitudes Together, these effects increase the frequency and severity of major flooding events. These conditions can assemble without a warmer atmosphere, but a warmer atmosphere means they will assemble more often and to a greater extent. Go get an education.
Supposedly, yes. However, the region has had two events popularly regarded as "the flood of the century" within 8 years of each other. Climate scientists--who are more qualified to comment on matters of climate than politicians, CEOs, and ordinary people--said in 2005 that the region can expect such flooding events to increase in frequency and severity because of anthropogenic global warming. Unfortunately, it seems that ignorance and denial are forces more powerful than these raging waters.
This must be devastating to the fishing ! How can they survive anything like this ? Human Beings we are! And we know how to rebuild better than it was . But Fish ? Can they make it through this ?
Yes, we are talking about the same William Soon, astrophysicist at Harvard, whose climate claims have been explicitly refuted in 13 separate papers, and who accepts funding for his research from the fossil fuel industry, which has an obvious financial interest in suppressing the scientific consensus of 13,000 peer-reviewed papers over the past 20 years, signed statements issued by the foremost climatological organizations in the world, and a petition signed by 31,000 scientists and Ph.Ds.
National Geographic Magazine, speaking about J. Taylor: "By suggesting a survey of industry geoscientists can be generalized to scientists as whole, Taylor has demonstrated the intellectual dishonesty inherent in denialist argumentation. You might as well make claims about the consensus that tobacco causes lung cancer by surveying scientists in the Altria corporation headquarters."
You are making an erroneous inference. Papers which do not draw conclusions on the causes of global warming are typically focused on measuring certain effects, and documenting the means by which those measurements are taken such that their merits can be subjected to peer review.
This is incredible video... the first I've seen showing that kind of damage to Hwy 1. For those not familiar, that's our national "interstate" highway that goes right across the country. So much devastation to the region, but it looks like Canmore has been hit hardest. Thoughts are with you all there.
I drive on this area of the highway every year. Canmore is a beautiful town and it's hard to believe this small creek can do so much damage. When I drive over it, it's more rocks than water. The creek is normally a small trickle. Because I have been to this town numerous times, my prayers are with them, as well as my home town, Calgary. Downtown is totally underwater. It's so sad.
Spent last 15 winter seasons in Canmore. This is unbelievable! I hope all my friends are safe and managing to get the necessities they need!
I can't believe this we just drove through here on Monday on our way to Calgary to fly home after vacation. WOW incredible.
Insider news: at least 8 houses have been washed away, hundreds of people were evacuated this morning and are staying in the larger buildings in town. Not only is there the road damage you see here, but the West side is closed off as well, we're isolated. All access to Banff is also closed, Exshaw is being evacuated too (at least one home gone there), and so is Harvie Heights, which has ran out of water and has major mud slides. I hope the flood stops soon and we can all recover from the damage.
I lived in Banff and Canmore for years and never saw anything like this. I hope all my friends in the area are unaffected by this. Good luck all of you. You're all strong people with great respect for nature and home. You'll do fine!
This video is really well filmed.Sitting here in Ontario it's simply astounding to see the wild rushing of the water and its noise.
Astonishing to think that they had a problem with too much water, usually the problem is not enough water.
Canadians are the most resilient people in the world - they will overcome this with great strength and fortitude.
They're out there making the most of this and better yet, they see the same kind of behavior in winter conditions, this is just the summer version of a blizzard.
GO CANADA!
Looks like i'm finding an alternative off-road route to bypass the mess. Heading to BC in five days :o
BC is pulling for you as well, we had a whole bunch of this last year!!! Recovery is slow and painful and very expensive, but it will happen. Good luck with everything!
I lived in canmore for 20 years, and I'd only saw Cougar Creek with water in it maybe 2-3 times per year. We'd always had trouble with the Hwy 1 culverts plugging up with rocks when the creek got moving. Always knew in the back of my head that one day this might happen, but never imagined this kind of destruction. I know a dozen people that live along the creek in Eagle Terrace and further down.. Hope this stops soon...
Water is an unbelievable force and nature at it's worst! Thinking of everyone in Canmore .... beyond words but I pray everyone is safe.
CF Troops all the way here in BC are ready to go on a moments notice Alberta.... God be with you and bless!
Be Strong and courageous
Our hearts are with you, Alberta! The power of nature, eh!
that bridge is for a road, the creek runs parallel to the highway about 400-500 meters away
thanks for the video and good job on date stamping the video!!
i lived in canmore, actually not far from the creek but way up on the hill, for close to 20 years, and never saw anything like this before.. that creek rarely ever even had water in it. mostly just for spring runoff.. this is sooo bad...
What part of Calgary is she in.. We are across from the COP NW in Greenwood just above Bowness which has had some evacuations by the river and the park. so we are OK up on a hill..and the river is below us I hope you reach her and she is OK
any help is wanted we are shutting down school in calagary and in airdre we are tough and will fight through it
1: Always "High" Hopes!
2: Life sure is a highway when you make a good video!
HOLY CRAP !! .. I just found this bridge on Google street view .. incredible how the "Creek" just decided to run right down HWY #1 and wash everything out ! .. What is the next bridge like for West? that creek must be a massive river to have caused all this damage !
Good luck getting to Canmore any time soon
Was this as result of a 1 in 200 year storm or even more??
Had the same concern, drove past today and it looks like it's intact.
You see what I mean?...it does not matter who is right...Do you want to be right or happy. Do you want to fight with your wife or have a happy marriage...?
Love is the answer to all of our problems and the beauty of our souls will prevail....selfishness transmuted to selflessness....Until we all learn this lessons we keep coming back again and again..We are offered million of chases to smarten up until we eventually become love...
Love you all Stefan from Coventry Hills Calgary
i wounder when the highway will be repaired.. cuz kids from my school on a week long trip are trapped there
Holy crap!!!! That happened today!?
I wonder why there are no cars?
My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone affected! Stay safe my fellow albertans!
How are folks getting OUT of Canmore?? I just am so sad to see this and to know you have to deal with this. Be safe and we're thinking of you.
Good Lord, what a mess, hope it doesn't take long to get back to normal for everyone.
Winnipeg Manitobians are here praying everyone is safe.
Please tell me that the grizzly paw brewery is ok...
Is that any where near Lodges of Canmore??
Wow, that and the rail line is really going to screw up shipping. Yikes.
I can't believe this! The flooding got so bad it ruined the Calgary Flames rink! This just keeps getting worse and worse for them!
Didn't they just finish that section of highway. Why would they put runoff in between the roads. Seems pretty obvious especially in that part of the province.
I live here, you can actually see my house in this video,we've been evacuated earlier this morning, but I am safe now. Not sure if the same can be said for my house.
Saskatchewan is pulling for you guys. We have some flooding and washouts in areas, but nothing like this.
high pressure means good weather so I am confused by your story.
holy crap! My school is there for a trip and they cant leave! all that way from Manitoba.
the actual culvert that the water is supposed to go through is actually really big, under that bridge is another road, well it used to be....
Wow, well done video. I don't know how many times I took that road in the past, so I know the spot and it is not recognizable except the bridge. This is horrible, the engineers really have their hands full thinking of a way to redirect all the water in future. Lots of diggin' needed there. I can't believe the amount of water flowing this year (world wide). Should we build an Ark?
OMG i hope all are ok
Excellent camera work showing the devastation. That's going to cost a few barrels of oil to repair and give the engineers and hydrologists a big challenge. Nature always teaches us big lessons. Hope everyone in Canmore is OK.
The storm system was bottled up against the mountains by a high pressure system, and abnormal easterly winds.
Environment Canada:
"As of 6:40 a.m. Friday, a storm system bringing rain to southern Alberta was trapped there by the Rocky Mountains, easterly winds and a high pressure system hanging over the northern part of the province."
Climate scientists agree these conditions are encouraged by a warmer atmosphere. Incidentally, warmer air is less dense and holds more moisture.
best wishes to Canmore. Amazing place
I used to live in red deer alberta and i remember the river flooding but it was nothing like this.
Wow! Mother Nature can be a mean ol' broad. GREAT FOOTAGE!!
Where are you posting from, USA? I think I have heard of that country....lots of murders every where right? :P
I really hope nobody gets hurt in all of this. I didn't realize that the trans-canada got hit so hard. Stay safe everybody. Keep on your local news reports for updates.
I wish I was there. I would be shooting "the end of the world" short film for school. Dammit!
Stay safe, Canmore~
(continued..) Now in Jan 2013, a group of 20 "Apollo era NASA retirees" has put together a rudimentary climate "report" and issued a press release declaring they have decided human-caused global warming is not "settled" and is nothing to worry about. The project is headed by H. Leighton Steward, a 77-year-old former oil and gas executive. The press release also links the NASA group to his website, "co2isgreen", which also has an extensive history of receiving fossil fuel industry funding.
WOW! Mother nature!
Actually I was kind of worried about that too. Beaver tail FTW!
Oh. my god. I didn't realize it was that bad!!
From the same wikipedia page you're cherry-picking from:
"97-98% of the most published climate researchers say humans are causing global warming. In another study 97.4% of publishing specialists in climate change say that human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing mean global temperatures."
Wikipedia and facts lol
Thanks Genny! I'll put it to the floor, second gear pull and tear through to the other side.
That is dreadful. Not just for the local area but all the businesses that rely on the transcanada. But if anyone can find a way to create a workaround until repairs are completed; it's Albertans.
Glad I am retied from trucking, pity on the drivers stuck on that strip of road...
I actually live in this town, so I know what's going on around here... I was talking about the oil/gov't taking care of it...
There is a chance that Highway 1 and 3 will be closed for the time being. Unless you plan to drive up past Edmonton...
now thats a real divided highway
Holy hell that's nuts!
WELL to all my hommies back in alberta hope u guys are all ok KINDA GLAD I MOVED 2 years ago now LOL... just kidding wish i was there with u all everythign will get better soon don't worry ALBERTA....
That is gonna take a long time to fix.......A lot of people use that highway, i wonder what they plan to do
I used to live in Canmore
The OISM petition was never independently verified. It's results and methodology were kept secret, unlike legitimate polling of the scientific community which is open peer-reviewed. Only a handful of accredited climatologists have endorsed the petition, which only required BSc qualifications to sign.
Peer-reviewed studies which demonstrate scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change: Oreskes 2004, Oreskes 2007, Doran and Zimmerman (2009), Anderegg et al. (2010), Cook et. al., 2013.
Awesome videoing...so sad
disaster! how will people cross the mountains now??
Academia Brasiliera de Ciencias (Brazil) - Royal Society of Canada - Chinese Academy of Sciences - Academie des Sciences (France) - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (Germany) - Indian National Science Academy - Accademia dei Lincei (Italy) - Science Council of Japan - Academia Mexicana de Ciencias (Mexico) - Russian Academy of Sciences - Royal Society (UK) - National Academy of Sciences (US).
All have issued statements confirming consensus on anthropogenic global warming.
Wow
From the same wikipedia page you cherry-picked that from:
In 2007, Harris Interactive surveyed 489 randomly selected members of either the American Meteorological Society or the American Geophysical Union for the Statistical Assessment Service (STATS) at George Mason University. The survey found 97% agreed that global temperatures have increased during the past 100 years. [...] Only 5% believe that human activity does not contribute to greenhouse warming."
Thats what Hwy 93 is for!
Shows the #1 and the semi's trapped coming from Calgary direction, and the 1A under the #1. and the tracks beside the 1A.....sheesh!
look like my truck still on the highway not wash away
My thoughts are will all of you up there!
William Soon has received over a million dollars in funding from the petroleum and coal industries, multiple grants from the American Petroleum institute totalling $274,000 between 2001 and 2007, and grants from Exxon Mobil to the tune of $335,000 between 2005 and 2010.
Thirteen scientists have published papers explicitly refuting his "Climate Research" publication. Refutations included selectivity in datasets, deliberate obfuscations, and climate models rendered from already disproven data.
You are distorting what has been said.
Increases in atmospheric temperatures have these effects:
1) Air holds more moisture
2) High pressure systems persist longer in northern latitudes
3) Jet streams fluctuate less often in northern latitudes
Together, these effects increase the frequency and severity of major flooding events. These conditions can assemble without a warmer atmosphere, but a warmer atmosphere means they will assemble more often and to a greater extent.
Go get an education.
Theres fish in rivers, and rivers have been flooding since there was rivers to flood. The little fishies will be fine.
awesome videography. of the massive devistation
Stay safe!
Looks like ur in an apocalyptic situation need help?
God bless and stay safe. Not much else to say. :/
omgosh......
the 1A is toast too,.. damned
Supposedly, yes. However, the region has had two events popularly regarded as "the flood of the century" within 8 years of each other.
Climate scientists--who are more qualified to comment on matters of climate than politicians, CEOs, and ordinary people--said in 2005 that the region can expect such flooding events to increase in frequency and severity because of anthropogenic global warming.
Unfortunately, it seems that ignorance and denial are forces more powerful than these raging waters.
This must be devastating to the fishing ! How can they survive anything like this ? Human Beings we are! And we know how to rebuild better than it was . But Fish ? Can they make it through this ?
Izzy Nobre me trouxe aqui!
Yes, we are talking about the same William Soon, astrophysicist at Harvard, whose climate claims have been explicitly refuted in 13 separate papers, and who accepts funding for his research from the fossil fuel industry, which has an obvious financial interest in suppressing the scientific consensus of 13,000 peer-reviewed papers over the past 20 years, signed statements issued by the foremost climatological organizations in the world, and a petition signed by 31,000 scientists and Ph.Ds.
Very sad indeed!
National Geographic Magazine, speaking about J. Taylor:
"By suggesting a survey of industry geoscientists can be generalized to scientists as whole, Taylor has demonstrated the intellectual dishonesty inherent in denialist argumentation. You might as well make claims about the consensus that tobacco causes lung cancer by surveying scientists in the Altria corporation headquarters."
Gooood luck bypassing..
oh shit i wouldnt wont to go thier.
👍
Unreal
thats crazy!
You are making an erroneous inference. Papers which do not draw conclusions on the causes of global warming are typically focused on measuring certain effects, and documenting the means by which those measurements are taken such that their merits can be subjected to peer review.
Becouse of this my school is closed