This is what an angry river looks like. These were taken this morning standing just west of the 10th street bridge looking toward downtown Calgary. This swirling brown muck is actually the Bow River, full of silt and traveling at an amazing rate of speed, carrying with it anything it can yank up or swallow up. There is no traffic on what normally would be a very busy intersection into downtown. Calgary's downtown core is completely shut down and without power and likely will remain that way until the middle of the week. It is spooky looking at it, spooky standing beside it and knowing just how much damage has been done in the last couple or three days by this river alone. All the rivers in this province seem to be running amok!
The emergency continues - cleanup can't begin until the water levels go down and that doesn't appear to be very soon. Some districts in the city are still under water.
This afternoon, Libby - intrepid Border Collie and I ventured out toward our favourite dog park, which is right on the Bow River. She needed exercise desperately, and I needed to know just how bad things are down there..
The paths are all either under water, or filled with a slippery brown muddy silt that I sank up to the top of my boots in.
This beauty is all gone - disappeared under the raging brown water. No clean water to wade in for Libby who was devastated that all her favourite paths had disappeared. I don't know if this lovely old fallen log will even still be there when the Island appears again.
Nature does indeed have a mean streak. The crisis continues, and I stay glued to the TV looking for updates, for positive stories among this tragedy....and I crochet-
-a new design - a scarf using the loveliest pima cotton, Linen lace weight blend from Diamond Yarns Luxury collection called Pima Lino Lace....gorgeous stuff. This will be my flood scarf.
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