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This water-logged snow globe, left out by a dumpster, brought to mind the floods which hit Calgary, Alberta, this last week. Click the image to enlarge it.[/caption]
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Calgary is 970 km from Vancouver; ideologically farther.[/caption]
In the Canadian Province of Alberta, next door, and to the East of British Columbia, the city of Calgary is just beginning to clean up after five days of flash flooding caused be heavy rains. The city centre was hit hard enough to raise doubts about the fate of this year's Calgary Stampede, a signature rodeo event which draws tourists from around the world.
Displaying the can-do spirit typifying Calgarians' response to the natural disaster, Stampede President Bob Thompson announced today the 101st Calgary Stampede will run as scheduled from July 5-14. Sometimes I think of Albertans as reactionary rednecks, thick as the oil sands crude they're promoting for American petroleum self-sufficiency, but, this week, I've been really proud of them.
This water-logged snow globe, left out by a dumpster, brought to mind the floods which hit Calgary, Alberta, this last week. Click the image to enlarge it.[/caption][caption id="attachment_2492" align="alignright" width="187"]
Calgary is 970 km from Vancouver; ideologically farther.[/caption]In the Canadian Province of Alberta, next door, and to the East of British Columbia, the city of Calgary is just beginning to clean up after five days of flash flooding caused be heavy rains. The city centre was hit hard enough to raise doubts about the fate of this year's Calgary Stampede, a signature rodeo event which draws tourists from around the world.
Displaying the can-do spirit typifying Calgarians' response to the natural disaster, Stampede President Bob Thompson announced today the 101st Calgary Stampede will run as scheduled from July 5-14. Sometimes I think of Albertans as reactionary rednecks, thick as the oil sands crude they're promoting for American petroleum self-sufficiency, but, this week, I've been really proud of them.
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