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Explore Disaster!

Apparently “this data is shared in order for individuals (Calgarians and visitors), businesses, and organizations to understand and prepare for potential disaster risks in the city.”

All cities should have something like this publicly available, really. It’s super interesting and informative. Also:

A nice little summary. I’m surprised the risk for critical infrastructure failure/disruption isn’t higher in the winter than the summer. I guess we’re more prepared for winter. Or maybe this is based heavily on last summer’s heat dome when our power grid was about to fail due to all the electricity used for cooling.