Quick_Sylver
June 23rd, 2013, 09:03 PM
HIGH RIVER, Alta. - As Cheyenne Lowry, 18, waited to be rescued from rising floodwaters in High River, Alta., she frantically phoned her father. "I said if helicopters don't come, I love you," Lowry said Friday from the Red Cross evacuation centre in nearby Blackie, about 40 km south of Calgary.
"I'll try to see you when I see you. I was bawling ... it was just disaster."
When the Highwood River started swelling, Lowry moved as many belongings as possible to the top floor of her brother's house, where she had been living for a few months. But as water started lapping at the front door, she put on flip flops and rushed out with only the clothes on her back.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/06/21/high-river-flooding-2013-residents-flee_n_3481619.html?utm_hp_ref=canada-alberta
Before anyone cracks a joke about it now being a "High" river, please don't. This is literally less than an hours drive down the road from me, and my town is an evacuation point at present. We're having to boil our water right now to be sure none of it has been affected by the flooding, and my mother was working in High River on Thursday when the evacuations started.
"I'll try to see you when I see you. I was bawling ... it was just disaster."
When the Highwood River started swelling, Lowry moved as many belongings as possible to the top floor of her brother's house, where she had been living for a few months. But as water started lapping at the front door, she put on flip flops and rushed out with only the clothes on her back.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/06/21/high-river-flooding-2013-residents-flee_n_3481619.html?utm_hp_ref=canada-alberta
Before anyone cracks a joke about it now being a "High" river, please don't. This is literally less than an hours drive down the road from me, and my town is an evacuation point at present. We're having to boil our water right now to be sure none of it has been affected by the flooding, and my mother was working in High River on Thursday when the evacuations started.