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Calgary Storm Damage Report

We got hit by the same storm that hit you Craig only about 2 hrs later. No damage to any of the buildings that I could see but the wifes car looks like we took a ball peen hammer to it for 20 minutes...some golf ball sized stones and they were pure clear ice, non of that cloudy,mushy stuff.
 
historicalarms said:
We got hit by the same storm that hit you Craig only about 2 hrs later. No damage to any of the buildings that I could see but the wifes car looks like we took a ball peen hammer to it for 20 minutes...some golf ball sized stones and they were pure clear ice, non of that cloudy,mushy stuff.
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That's the hail we got. Pure clear ice.
 
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On sale for $40 tomorrow if anyone needs one. I'm booting it over there first thing tomorrow. Was shoveling water again last night. What's with these storms we are having this year? An hour+ of sheets of rain. I extended the down spouts 5' today.
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Got one of 5 available at the NE store. There were 4 left as of 10am.
 
YYCHobbyMachinist said:
Got one of 5 available at the NE store. There were 4 left as of 10am.
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Good for you. There's always a rush for them after a big storm.

It's pretty inexpensive peace of mind for around the house. I kind of went through this phase 10 years ago where I was buying old pumps and repairing them for fun. Not sure why, maybe because when I was young my dad and I did lots of dewatering on a 1/4 section we owned up in Lacombe. It had a spring on it and flooded all the time. So I guess I learned about them then. We used big gas ones with 3" discharges.

Having said that the ones I use the most now are like what you got. I think I've saved four basements in our block when their window wells filled up. Not sure why the owners don't do what you did. One guy I've pumped out three times. Nice that you got it on sale too. I love PA for stuff like that :) During the 2013 flood PA shipped all the pumps they had across the country to Calgary, which was pretty classy in my mind.

Hopefully you will never need it, but I bet you will. Sorry about all your damage; hope the repair cycle isn't too bad.
 
People were hauling down spouts out of Rona yesterday 3-4 at a time. I got the last two.

Were you raised in Lacombe? My uncle was a shop teacher there for years. Mostly wood working shop I think.

I guess I had better test this pump out before stashing it away eh?

…… It works.
 
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Today's Project......

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After

I figured that was a 2 day project but with the wife driving the wheel barrel and me on the shove we got her done in 8 hours. That included one trip to Rona for the well and drainage rock and two trips to Lowes to rent a hammer drill.

Craig
 
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So last night Calgary had a tornado warning and the whole neighborhood was out on the street watching a big black cloud spewing lightning and thunder pass over for a good 1/2 hour. In the end we didn't get a drop of rain out of that beast. Some where to the NE must have gotten a good dump though.
 
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Ok, looks like Conrich got dumped on with Loonie size hale and sheets of rain. That's a 5 minute drive east of us.
 
it cycled to the north of us. Awesome display of nature, but unnerving at the same time. Some of the time-lapsed photography was amazing.
 
WOW..... We got off easy. You should see the residences along Metis Trail near Country Hills BLVD. They are beat to rat sh.t, many with boarded up windows.
 
Years back, circa 1988 I lived in Calgary and we got what I recall was the first big hail storm in decades. I had just moved into a new house and the roof was destroyed. My parents were visiting and their custom built camper looked like it was a driving range target.
The next year our house insurance doubled. The reason given was that the insurance company had to recoup losses from the hail storm.
I wondered what they'd been doing with all of the money they hadn't paid out in the decades prior.
 
I don't recollect one around 1988 but I do remember one 1979/1980 ish that shot holes in all our lawn furniture and smashed the Hibachi grill. Had a Corvette convertible take refuge on our front lawn under a big tree. We were renting at the time so an insurance claim wasn't our problem.
 
Well..... the house insurance adjuster was just here. Looks like we need a new roof, siding, gutters and down spouts.

Waiting for the vehicle insurance adjuster now. Supposed to come today.

Craig
 
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