You wonder when the the people of Alberta will throw up collective hands and delare “No Mas!”
It’s been a tough year.
Already suffering from a giant plunge in oil prices leading to widespread unemployment, the entire population of the northern city of Fort McMurray– 90,000 people–had to flee in the face of a gigantic, raging wildfire.
Less than two months after residents were allowed to return home, the city was forced to activate its emergency operations centre again last weekend when 85 millimetres of rain fell in two hours, prompting wide-spread flooding.
Just another episode in Alberta’s summer from hell–a summer marked by tornadoes, wind, hail, thunderstorms and often unbearable humidity
Calgary, for example, received 206 millimetres of rain–the most since 1927–and there were 19 thunderstorms on top of it.
And that was just July, when the city got a grand total of eight dry days.
Environment Canada’s senior climatologist, David Phillips, says nobody’s had it worse than Alberta when it comes to bad weather this summer.
I spoke with Phillips and asked him what the heck is going on.
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