Mandatory evacuation in Calgary right now: Mission, Elbow Park, Stanley Park, Roxboro, Rideau and Discovery Ridge!

IF ANY MEMBERS NEED A PLACE TO STAY: Please post to the listserv and we'll try to find you homes.  Subject: Home needed! 

Include this information: 

- number of people in need of a home

- pets: specify species, space requirements, whether it/they get along with other animals. 

- any allergies, i.e can you stay in a home with pets and/or smoking

- whether you have a vehicle or need help evacuating

- any contact information you're willing to share to take conversations off the listserv (email address suggested)

ANY MEMBERS WILLING TO OPEN THEIR HOMES: Please post to the listserv. Subject: Home offered: [part of city]

Include this information in your reply: 

- number of available spaces in your home

- any pets

- can you take pets (specify species you're willing to accept, space availability)

- are you smoking or non/smoking

- whether you have a vehicle to help evacuate

- what part of the city you're in

- contact information you're willing to share to take conversation off listserv (email address suggested)

1.  Calgary has imposed mandatory evacuation for Mission, Elbow Park, Stanley Park, Roxboro, Rideau and Discovery Ridge neighbourhoods.

2. A reception center is being set up in Southland Leisure Centre:  2000 Southland Dr SW Calgary, AB. 

3. Any resident living in an area affected by the 2005 flood, please prepare yourself to evacuate. Gather your bug out bags, prescription medication, valuables. You may be asked to evacuate and head to high land. 

4. Any resident in the 2005 affected areas can self-evacuate. You can ask the city to shut off your utilities. The utilities will not be put back on until the event is over. 

 

Please see the press release here: http://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=951237

The whole thing is important, but skip ahead to 5:30 for more details on the evacuation plan for Calgary. 

From the video: 

"We will see a significant amount of water show up late tonight, through the nighttime hours, and into tomorrow morning. It will be in the magnitude of the 2005 floods or greater." 

"We will probably see water come over the top of the Glenmore dam, in a rate that probably exceeds the 2005 rates." 

Stay safe everyone.