City of Fredericton NB - Flood of 2008
May 2nd, 2008 by MacBros - 529 Peepers read this post.
Well I did a lot of walking around town today (May1st) and I actually enjoyed it. I will have to do that more often because I felt really good and full of energy when I got home. So good I decided to grab 8 cans of Keiths Beer.
While in town, I got to the bank as it was one of two main reasons to walk into town today. The bank was closed due to the flooding, but fortunately the ATM’s were working. I had to make a deposit so I could pay rent. But that’s to boring to get into.
The second reason for walking the streets was to take some pictures and video of the flooded areas of the city. I believe there are 35 pictures that I took and another 5 1/2 minutes of video, which you can watch here.
The pictures were uploaded to both of my galleries. You can view the pictures in my web site gallery’s Fredericton NB - Flood of 2008, or you can go to my Flickr Pro account and view the ultra hi-rez photos in my Flickr’s Flood Set.
I used Google Earth to make an aerial view if what I witnessed to be flooded. Now there is probably flooding in a lot of other places, but I just marked in what I saw. Maybe Corey can add to the image if he feels like it.
Click on the image to open it up in flickr so you can see the large image.
Sorry for posting this so late, but I had to watch my Favorite TV Shows. CSI, Survivor, and LOST were on and I watch these shows ritualistically. I have to say I’m more LOST with LOST now BTW.
When I went into work Wednesday, they decided it was do dangerous to leave the power on in the city in the parts the flooding is the worst, so the clubs were shut down and it was pretty quiet at work. But I guess it was pretty busy in the day since most of the restaurants in the center of town were shut down.
The water started to flood the basement of the restaurant by coming up through the sewer pump that pumps the water from the sinks out. They have to have it because it’s below the water table, hence the flood water coming up through the floor.
The power was off all day Thursday in the flood zones, and apparently will be until the water recedes. They even had to boot all the folks out of one of the Hotels in the Flood Zone. I bet a lot of vacationers were pissed off.
There was Media all over the place. I had a hard time staying out of the camera view. It was crazy watching them every place trying to milk every possible disastrous moment they could.
This actually happens every year, but unfortunately it hasn’t been this bad since 1973.
They’re saying it will peak tonight, but that can change at any hour, so you really don’t know what to expect.
A lot of folks down river from me are probably going to have it worse since they drop a bit lower to sea level and are in the major flood plains. Just hope mom and Dad do alright. Mom was saying that the water is actually right at the back steps of one of my brother’s place. And if it peaks tonight, he will probably need his hip waders for sure.
UPDATE:4:30pm May 2nd.
CTV has put up a section on their site to display the pictures submitted by other New Brunswick residents.
I took the airplane up and took some video so it’s available if you have 30 or so extra minutes to watch video of the City of Fredericton Flood Areas, or you can skip through it too if you want to watch certain spots. No I didn’t actually take the video in the airplane, just kidding, it’s from the City Web Site. 
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May 2nd, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Well, I hope it DOES peak and get over with already. That’s a lot of water to get dried up in time for Summer! Sheesh.
May 2nd, 2008 at 6:03 pm
Yes. I hope so too.
I hate to think about working tonight and having to wade through water when going to the basement.
OH SHIT! Just as I wrote that I remembered that the power room is down in the basement.
I hope they got through the worst of it yesterday, or if it is as bad as it was Wednesday, they probably had to close.
I have to MSG a co-worker..
the communication at that hell hole is terrible.
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:41 am
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:47 pm
The Smythe exit off the bridge was open today and the road was clear of water. I’d say it dropped about 8 feet.
May 4th, 2008 at 2:19 am
May 4th, 2008 at 11:35 am