Hamptons
Wasn't Hampton's the area that flooded in the middle of the night, after the first flood when the river came back into town from the North?
If I recall it was one of the hardest hit area's with some houses being almost completely submerged. I talked to one guy who works for the Town of High River and lives in the Hamptons. He showed me an aerial picture of his house. Parked in front of his house was his 1 ton truck and 5th wheel unit. All that could be seen was the air conditioner of his 5th wheel, the rest was under the mirky water.
Miracle, that no seniors, handicapped, hard sleepers were found floating inside their houses. There was just the two that got swept away out in the streets.
Since most electrical panels, gas furnaces and such are in basements I wonder if it would be dangerous to have people going into their houses to clean without any power, then when the power/gas is flicked backed on and the basement is still full of water..would that cause a problem? Seems there was one house in the northwest part of town that blew up. Now i know the mounties have been blamed for that but I wonder if it is coincidence that when the power and gas were turned back on in the part of town that the house blew up.
After that, I bet Atco and Fortis would not turn the power/gas on until every house had been checked. I wonder how they got in?
I wonder if the 300 or so people that did not evacuate and stayed in High River were all upstanding citizens? I wonder if any of them would have looted any homes? I wonder that since the mounties were escorting the power and gas guys in the houses anyway for the aforementioned safety hazards, that it was best to take the firearms that were in plain site with them and return them to the owners when the owners were allowed back into town?
Seems reasonable to me that any firearms owner that keeps his firearms in his basement, normally under lock and key would move them to higher ground knowing there was a flood happening. Likely not much room or time to load up the kids, wife, dog, cat and guns when it all happened so quick...
Lots to ponder on this situation...
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