The Bow: List Edition
Super boring to everyone who’s not up here, but:
ITEM ONE: they’ve finally fixed the path that got washed away in The Great 2024 Calgary Water Main Break last June.
The geese are mad because that was a prime “eat ALL the grass” spot.
ITEM TWO: we just got hella rain (Friday and Saturday were the rainiest days Calgary’s seen since the 2013 flood) and the Bow is really muddy and fast right now. Ignore my terrible camera skills.
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STROM
OH GOD IT’S STORMY HERE and I have to go for a run.
We’re on like maximum flood alert because there’s a chance the Bow might get a mega-surge of water from the mountains and from surrounding rainstorms.
Edit from later: that was a super windy run, but no Bow overflow!
Scary River Fun
So today I had to call 911 for some rafters who ran into trouble on the Bow River.
Technically I wasn’t the only one who called 911 – people further up the river who had witnessed the raft capsize had called first, as I learned later – but the people who had been dumped by the raft were moving REALLY FAST down the river and were yelling for help as they were passing where I was walking, so I called 911 just in case no one had done it yet.
Bystander effect, right?
Anyway, I think I was able to help a little bit, because I was able to tell the operator approximately where the people were in the river (based on the street I was by) and give an idea of how fast they were moving so that rescue could possibly intercept them.
And completely unrelated: I was perhaps the most dehydrated I’ve ever been by the end of my walk today. I didn’t bring enough water and our heat wave is starting to pick up today, so that was fun.
Edit: pic of the raft that had caught on the bridge by Edworthy Park. It doesn’t show up very well in the pic, but the water was REALLY moving.
I Love Calgary
So because I felt like death after my shot the other day, I forgot to post some pics I took of downtown. So here ya go!
River Knee Knee River
So the Bow is really high.
That’s part of the River Walk that runs under Centre Street. They’ve got it closed off because of the amount of water that’s pooling in that low portion.
IN OTHER NEWS, I think I gave myself runner’s knee. I had no idea runner’s knee was a thing, but ever since I did the dumb of jumping from “run a 10k every other week or so” to “let’s run two half-marathons in a week because we can!” my left knee has been giving me some issues. Not enough issues to make me stop walking (it would basically take my entire leg falling off to make me stop walking, let’s be honest), but it starts to hurt after about 12 miles or so.
At least, I’m assuming it’s runner’s knee. Hopefully not something more serious.
‘Cause like hell I’m seeing a doctor.
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