Seems like a good topic (not climate change)  

 

and I was just wishing that we could have rain at the moment because of the spring like weather....and now we're going to pay for it, March can't come soon enough

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/alberta-clipper-manitoba-weather-1.7432819

Edited January 16, 20251 yr by iHeart

Boy that Blizzard is nasty, good thing I opted to cancel my doctor's appointment

19 minutes ago, iHeart said:

Boy that Blizzard is nasty, good thing I opted to cancel my doctor's appointment

Woot! You’re free to do my driveway now.

Just when I thought I've seen everything weather wise BOOM dust storm

so anyone got storm photos to share?

It’s not over. The tornado still needs to come.

Edited yesterday at 12:49 AM1 day by Goalie

It is over. Weak.

I never heard the emergency alert go off on my phone so many times since it was introduced

15 minutes ago, Goalie said:

It’s not over. The tornado still needs to come.

Clouds circled overhead here and I thought I better record this. YouTube views = money

2 hours ago, iHeart said:

I never heard the emergency alert go off on my phone so many times since it was introduced

At least 30 - 40 times for me. I am guessing the system is broken/glitched because it would send like 5 in 5 minutes through out the night.

We are gonna have some amazing videos in the morning to wake up to.

My back lane got flooded all over again I had to dig my rain boots out of storage

I got 11 notifications. If you don’t answer it it goes off every few minutes but it was going off till 2am here.

6 hours ago, Goalie said:

I got 11 notifications. If you don’t answer it it goes off every few minutes but it was going off till 2am here.

That's when it's time to turn off your phone.

9" of rain out here. Local state of emergency

Skeeters will be out in a week or so once it warms up. We got 5 inches of rain here in Calgary over a 3 day period 2 weekends ago. Stavely, AB got 10 inches of rain, though.

A few friends on mine got great videos, the one lives in stonewall and the other in st Anne. It’s to bad I can’t post them. Basically can see the tornado in one and the other is just extensive backyard damage and field flooding. Stonewall got the most rain at 255 mms in 1 hour. Winnipeg number 2 and it was less than half of what stonewall got. Crazy.

Not that it matters, but we probably got more or the same amount at Peterfield. Gauges that stop at 8" were overflowing.

2 hours ago, Mark H. said:

Not that it matters, but we probably got more or the same amount at Peterfield. Gauges that stop at 8" were overflowing.

I don’t doubt that. Just didn’t make the list. Maybe not big enough for the list they used. I mean swan river got pretty much destroyed also and they also didn’t make the list. Woodlands near my cabin sorta kinda , crazy weather phenomenon zone there was 4 and got 100 mm. St Anne wasn’t even top 5.

Stonewall airport forks woodlands was top 4 rainfall I saw but ya maybe they didn’t include places.

Regardless tho, that sucks for anyone who got any sort of damage. We got lucky here. Minor little bit of water in downstairs bathroom but we know why and that’s being fixed this summer. Just a minor little bolt in the wall there. Some ppl I know got 6 inches of water in their entire basement. Trees were down 2 houses away, ours were ok. Just crazy stuff. Good luck out there.

Edited 4 hours ago4 hr by Goalie

Worst part for me was the damn phones going off. It got to the point where my daughter and I went outside and were like where is the tornado cuz it never happened but damn phones kept making it seem like it was above us.

1 hour ago, Goalie said:

Worst part for me was the damn phones going off. It got to the point where my daughter and I went outside and were like where is the tornado cuz it never happened but damn phones kept making it seem like it was above us.

Yeah no ****. And you can't turn the thing off, people are probably calling to see if you need help.

The worst one I know of is the neighbours up the road - got 3 feet of water downstairs, which is a 90 year old lady's apartment.

People are pretty devastated around here

15 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

That's when it's time to turn off your phone.

In that situation? Hell no

Better safe than sorry and it's better than nothing, you can always turn the sound down on your phone.

Mother nature in her sometimes crappy way reminds us we're all in this together on planet earth.

My corny remark of the day.