Fort McMurray - Current events

So. Roughly 13k people had to be evacuated from downtown Fort Mac due to the flooding: RMWB community notice

We've had post-riverbreak flooding before, but this is much more extreme than usual. Three rivers around the city are flooding at once, so the entire downtown area is affected, rather than just the lowest-sitting areas that usually experience this problem.

Like I mentioned before, I don't live downtown, so my house is fine. Currently I'm just mildly inconvenienced by a boil-water order.

But I feel like garbage, because not only is something like this happening in my city, there's also nothing I can do about it. Downtown is an emergency zone and well-intentioned randos need to stay away.

So there's this, and the virus/pandemic on top of that, and it's happening very close to the anniversary of 2016 fire evacuation, so it's just... it's a really horrible time for my city all around right now.

[Edit]

Someone posted a couple photos on tumblr that give an idea of the issue. That's Franklin Avenue, our main street, before and after.

[Edit 2]

The municipal twitter posted a map showing the area that's flooded + the areas under evac order. It's... extensive: here