Troops will help battle Man. flooding: PM

Wow..



(Corral Center in Brandon, MB)

Manitoba, Saskachewan, the whole Mississippi river, Vermont and a small part of Qu�bec... that I know of. What IS happening this year?

It has nothing to do with polar ice caps melting, greenhouse gas, or climate change. Stick your head back in the sand, and repeat after me.. "Everything is great"

Oh gods....flooding in Manitoba during the spring...... how unprecedented. OK Chicken Little.

Oh my lord, they were right about the Conservatives putting troops in our streets!

Yeah a flood of the century every year, gets old fast I guess.

I was at the last one. This one doesn't look as bad... yet.

Great pictures though.








(Photos by Dale)

These pictures were from 3 days ago too. Apparently its gone up quite a bit since.

How long have we been keeping records on these rivers? The prairies also experience cyclical moisture patterns. Hell, there are rivers(Valley and Wilson specifically) around the Parkland, where my maternal grandmother and grandfather grew up, that I could walk across without getting wet. When they were younger, they swam in them, fished and were able to canoe up the river all the way from the Gilbert Plains region to Lake Dauphin.

Yeah there's a reason that there is a "Grand Valley" here on the prairie too. But it seems to be happening a lot these days.

There are also broad river valleys created by the Little Saskatchewan, Red and Souris rivers. people settle on flood plains, they are great for growing and transportation during dry cycles. The Dust Bowl was created by those who settled on marginal land, during a wet cycle, and hadn't developed farming techniques like zero tillage to help maintain and extend soil moisture. They exacerbated a natural event.

Again, I'm very grateful for Duff's Ditch.. It saved us in '97 when downtown Grand Forks flooded and burned, and I'm well insulated from the flood on the Red this year as well.

Our place up near Grandview had some flooding, but it was all in the pasture where our neighbour keeps some mares. Our place in Winnipeg, although only a few(a handful actually) blocks from the Assiniboine is definitely safe.