In June 2013, when the city warned Bowness residents a flood was coming, Brenda Ferris initially thought her house would be spared any damage.
"I said, 'Well, it's fine. We're fine. Like, the river's high, it's coming up but we're, you know, we're fine,'" said Ferris.A few hours later, friends convinced her she should leave,"Just in case."
"And then a neighbour said, 'Mary's Corner Store is gone.' I remember thinking, 'I live beside Mary's Corner Store.'""Got the last one Home Depot in Red Deer, drove home, got here about four o'clock and went down into my basement and went, 'Holy mackerel!'" said Ferris.Like so many people, she kept valuable items and heirlooms in storage downstairs.
"It affected me for quite some time. And it was hard to acknowledge that it affected us. Kind of like we had trauma. And there was a number of people that had trauma," said Ferris. "We didn't get overland flooding, because the downtown got all of that water. It was our storm sewer that was overwhelmed," said Ashton.
"I think everybody was just walking around in disbelief. It felt like it wasn't really even happening to us. But it was. It definitely was.""It's not an easy feeling to get over. I think that those first few years were the toughest. Every time the rain came, , 'Are all my troughs clean or my downspouts down?' You're going and looking in those corners of your basement where the water first appeared, asking yourself, 'Is it coming in again?' said Ashton.
"I remember that first afternoon, a big red truck pulled up with some young, I want to say early 20-year-old males in it, and they said, 'Hey, we're from Red Deer. We wanted to help.' And they pulled out I think three flats of water," said Ashton.
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