My Home Town

[*YoungGuyver]

I moved away from my home town a few years ago, and wow, what is happening there now.

 

You see, Lethrbidge Alberta is in the bible belt of Canada.  So I heard all the doom and gloom predictions of the end of the world, and how we will need a safe haven.  Even with global warming, the coastal places will be flooded, so one would think something so inland, shielded by mountains, and thousands of miles of open plains would be enough to protect people.  Hell, when I was growing up, the grass was always yellow because it never rained, it was eternal drought.  Well... things change.

 

Earlier this month, a huge rain swept through Alberta, bringing down the mountain ice and snow.  The dams had to be released in order to prevent them from bursting.  This flooded out entire towns for a few weeks.  This also caused an uproar when people found out that their insurance was refusing to cover it.

 

This isn't as new, big rains started about ten years ago (when I was still living there), something completely new happened.  A bright sunny day suddenly burst into a thunderstorm.  Huge drops of water came down in a torrential down pour, while the sun was still shining incredibly brightly.  You could see the haze of cloud in the sky, but also the sun mostly clear through the brownish orange haze.  The drops must have been an inch each, and so fast it was like a machine gun ripping into the earth.  The whole thing lasted for no more then five minutes.  No more than five minutes, and it left the underpass, and several homes flooded.  Some people tried to drive their cars through the underpass, and had to wait for it to get towed or drained.  A lot of houses has severe water damage to their basements.  The same thing happened five years later, proving that their sewer drainage connections needed to be upgraded.  My home town is not designed to handle water, it was built with droughts in mind.

 

And this last week, we have yet another huge storm that lasts no more than an hour.  The people on the outskirts of town reported a tornado that almost touched down

What I find interesting is that today, across the continent in Ontario, Quebec, and the coast, a tornado ripped through (the coast anyway) in the middle of the night.  All three provinces had major wind damage.

 

Last year, the warm front that was melting the glacier in Green land(?) pushed an ocean hurricane back into the New York coast, causing major damage.  I'm suspecting a repeat this year, if this is the new climate change weather trend.

[*Jess♥]

we're expecting thunderstorms here tomorrow.

I'm looking forward to it! I can sit in my new conservatory and watch. it's gonna be great.

[*YoungGuyver]

Oh this is just great.

For those outside my country, we used to have aboriginal schools from 1870-1990.  Basically, the government would take native children from their families, and hand them over to church run schools so that these kids could be 'civilized'.  Of course, many lawsuits over sexual assault, abuse, and such abounded.  This is on top of the eugenics programs that my home province was running, sterilizing the mentally handicapped, until they were getting sued by those that were eventually cured.  But now, back to the aboriginals, it seems we were doing 'medical testing' on them too!

 

http://news.ca.msn.com/top-stories/aboriginal-children-used-in-medical-tests-commissioner-says

 

What the hell?

[*Jess♥]

these things sound like make-believe. is this real life?

 

damn, who would have thought!

is this just in your home town or is this something that has happened across Canada?

I always thought of Canada as a progressive peaceful country.

[LordSpleach]

Yeah, same here. Hell one unofficial nickname for Canada in the States is "America's Backyard".

[*YoungGuyver]

Eugenics happened in my province, and the aboriginal medical testing was almost nation wide.  You have to remember, that technically this was very progressive.  Eugenics and medical testing were governments using science to violate peoples human rights.  I'm pro science, but not like this