A Lot Can Happen in a Month

The flood of 2008 has come and gone. It was a "bad" flood and many people suffered and continue to suffer the aftereffects of the flood. The Fred E-zone City Hall camera stayed on throughout the flood but did not capture much of the real impact. The crest of the flood brought the river up to the back of City Hall on the second of May.

While the crest took another day to reach the river at the Highway crossing at Coytown-Sheffield. You can see that the river almost covers the lower level of the bridge supports but that is as high as it got in the web cameras.

And if you can believe it there was snow in the south east part of the province at least enough to cover the ground for the last time of the year. I guess in terms of weather that winter is officially over.

After the flood crested the river stayed high for a while but the City drained fairly quickly and people started the recovery process. The Fred E-zone camera came back on the 7th of May with a synthesis of the new Officers Square camera view and the Lighthouse camera into what they call the Library/River camera. I like what I see as it has a good view of the river front drive, the river itself and the city bridge.

And the image retains its colour setting later into the evening allowing for some very nice cityscapes as the sun sets to the left of the image (so I guess the camera is pretty much looking North). This image was about 9pm on May 13th.

In the mean time the rest of the province moved along and the images of the highway cameras steadily got greener and greener as the spring progressed. At some point the cameras switched over to their summer schedule and only capture a new image every hour instead of every twenty minutes like they did in the winter. I guess that only makes sense as the safety issue is not as extreme. The exception would appear to be the MRDC cameras that pretty much provide live still images.

Today the Copp Loop Road web camera captured an image that I like very much. It has a good sky defined by nice cumulus clouds and the camera is steady. I guess I just like the composition and subject of the image.

And this is what the province looked like today at 3 - 4 pm ...