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Sorry I have to post this quickly, but they've just issued an evacuation and we have to prepare. It's been raining for a while here in Calgary, and we've got some bad flooding. These pictures take a while to upload because they're so large, so here's a few.

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I'm at my parents friends house, it's up a very large hill so we'll be fine. So far they're saying we have to wait 78 hours to go back, but hopefully it'll be less. We still don't know the state of our house. They say the river should peak at around 3 in the morning. Everyone's kind of worried about the dam upstream bursting. It's really bad just up the river. And yeah, it seems that this is only along the Bow River. But it's really bad in Bragg Creek, Canmoor, and Highriver.

Edit, here's a bit of a before and after. The non flooded one isn't my picture.

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Edit 2 - the news just showed the river near my house. Oh jeeze it's a lot higher. I can say with almost certainty that at least my basement is underwater. Hopefully nothing else.

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So my parents went to our house this morning, and amazingly, it hasn't flooded yet :D

The river is still rising apparently, but I think we've gotten through the worst of it. Of course even if I do have to wait here for a few more days, my parents brought my computer so I can play KSP.

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Don't mind me asking, but they are not "so large".

For me, they appear to be only 800x532. Maybe the forums aren't loading them fully?

Just letting you know.

Imageshack is a dumb so it resizes the pictures. They still take a long time to upload because they're like 2008*1500 or something originally.

Anyway, thanks for all of the support. We've just gotten back to our house today. Everything's fine, but but the river's even higher now then it was when I took the pictures. Just a few blocks from my house the streets are full of water. But the weather's better now, and unless the dam bursts (which is probably never going to happen), everything's over now.

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