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Calgary floods trigger an oil spill and a mass evacuation
2013-06-25 23:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Epic floods forced more than 100,000 people to flee their homes last week in Calgary, Alberta, the tar-sands mining capital of Canada. More than seven inches of rain fell on the city over the course of 60 hours. Now the floodwaters are subsiding throughout the province, leaving in their wake an oil spill, power outages, and questions about how climate change might affect flooding. Alberta Premier Alison Redford said the crisis was like nothing that weve ever seen before, the Calgary Herald...
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At least three dead as Canada floods force large-scale Calgary evacuation
2013-06-22 16:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: At least three people have been killed by floodwaters that devastated much of southern Alberta, leading authorities to evacuate the city of Calgary's entire downtown. The Canadian prime minister, Stephen Harper, called the level of flooding "stunning" and said officials don't know yet if it will get worse. Harper also said the water had peaked and stabilized and noted that the weather has improved. Overflowing rivers washed out roads and bridges, soaked homes and turned streets into dirt-brown...
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Canadian floods prompt evacuation of entire downtown Calgary area
2013-06-21 22:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Flooding forced the western Canadian city of Calgary to order the evacuation of the entire downtown area on Friday, as the waters reached the 10th row of the city's hockey arena. About 230,000 people work downtown on a typical day. However, officials said very few people need to be moved out, since many heeded warnings and did not go to work on Friday. Twenty-five neighborhoods in the city, with an estimated population of 75,000, have already been evacuated due to floodwaters in Calgary, a...
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Raging wildfires force evacuation of two Colorado towns
2013-06-21 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Three wildfires sparked by lightning raged out of control in rugged Colorado mountain terrain on Friday, prompting the evacuation of two towns and menacing a third. The West Fork Fire Complex - consisting of two separate fires in Rio Grande County in southern Colorado - forced 600 residents of South Fork to flee as high winds helped the blazes grow from 12,000 acres to 30,000 acres overnight. "The fire behavior we saw yesterday was so extreme, it was ... unprecedented," said Eric Norton, a...
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Fire Prompts Please Touch Museum Evacuation
2013-05-24 04:21:23| Real Estate - Topix.net
SkyFOX was over the scene at the museum, located in Fairmount Park, after the fire happened around 3:30 p.m. In one of their most dramatic choices in a century, local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America vote to ease a divisive ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted into the nation's leading youth organization.
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