Hot Weather in Calgary

All this week the temperature is 30 degrees Celcius. The Stampede Parade will go on as scheduled this Friday.  The Bow River is still high but is thirty feet below the river bank. It is incredible to think the river could rise so high in such a short time. Just over a week ago the the banks of the Bow where this picture was taken overflowed into China town.  The Midway on the Stampede grounds is going up quickly. Grounds crews are working around the clock. Machinery is everywhere, booths are being towed into place and giant cranes are setting up the rides. You would nver know that this area had been flooded. When the Bow overflowed its banks it was not just in one isolated spot but the length of the entire of the Bow River from Bowness , the downtown core, the Calgary Zoo, the Stampede Grounds, Inglewood and Bonny brook. The Bow River winds and loops from west to east through Calgary and eventually flows south towards Bow Island in southern Alberta where the Bow river meets the Old man River to form the South Saskatchewan river that flows through Medicine Hat that had 36 hours notice that the flood waters were in its way. Even with this notice 10,000 people  in Medicine Hat had to be evacuated from the flood plain.