We are stronger together — Voices of the flood: Naheed Nenshi yyc
I don’t want to go home. Not yet. I can’t be out of reach on a plane for four hours until I know everything is under control. We authorize the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history – almost 100,000 souls. We turn off the power to great swaths of the city as a precautionary measure. I allow myself a moment to marvel at the incredible work of the public servants. They’ve never seen anything like this either, but they get to work with incredible professionalism and dedication.
We arrive at YYC late at night. I’m met at the airport. I’m never met at the airport. I’m told to get in a truck and proceed directly to the new Emergency Operations Centre. I’ve actually never been there. I had missed the grand opening and hadn’t got around to booking a tour yet.Article content Standing on the north bank of the Bow River in the dark, I listen to the water. I grew up here. Those rivers are in my bloodstream, as they are for every Calgarian. I have never heard them so loud, so angry. In the dark, I can make out the level and speed of the water. And for the first time since I got the call some 20 hours earlier, I feel scared.
First, we told people everything. There is a school of thought in emergency management that you need to tightly control the flow of information, telling people only what they absolutely need to know to make decisions. We went the other way. We told people everything we knew, in multiple settings and channels, and explained why we made the decisions we did. It was important to me that people also heard hard news from me.
When a quick turnaround call went out for people to volunteer to help with flood cleanup, the city thought 50 or so folks might turn up. Instead, the number was in the thousands. Here. volunteers wait at McMahon Stadium to board buses and head out to flood damaged communities. Tijana Martin/ Calgary Herald
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