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The distinctive Bragg Creek Buying and selling Publish was practically submerged by the raging Elbow River on June 21, 2013. Not seen from this angle, the entrance of the constructing was impaled by an enormous tree trunk. The shop, which sells Indigenous crafts and clothes, reopened a 12 months and a half later after in depth renovations.
A police cruiser sits deserted in a car parking zone in Sunnyside close to the Calgary Curling Membership on June 21, 2013. Ten years later, flood mitigation work nonetheless continues within the neighbourhood alongside the Bow River.
The floodwaters of the Elbow River fill the barns and flat areas of Stampede Park on June 21, 2013. Amazingly, the Calgary Stampede went forward as scheduled, two weeks later, after a mammoth cleanup effort.
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The Bow River rose to inside ft from the underside of the Peace Bridge, which had simply opened a bit over a 12 months earlier.
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Floodwaters from the Bow River lapped towards the metal wall of Poppy Plaza on Memorial Drive. The river flowed eight instances its regular charge on the peak of the flood.
A police van plows by way of a flooded intersection at 4th Avenue and twenty fourth Avenue S.W. in Mission on June 22, 2013. The low-lying neighbourhoods of Mission, Roxboro, Rideau, Elbow Park, Erlton and Elbow Park have been among the many hardest hit by the flood.
A person stands on a flatbed trailer, stranded after his truck was submerged by the quickly rising Highwood River in Excessive River on June 20, 2013. Entrance-end loaders and combines have been used to ferry folks to security as a lot of the city was below water by the tip of the day.
