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I managed to upload all them pictures last night from my little trek through the Odel Park Trails. I was actually worried that by the time I managed to make it there, all the colored leaves would have been blown off the trees. But lucky for me, there was a lot of color to be photographed.

Enjoy!

Fall in Odel Park - Fredericton NB, CA

You can view the complete Scenery Set at my Flickr account.

I have some video that I’m going to edit to some music too. I’ll post that soon too. (I hope)

I’ve had a crazy day today that involved a Skunk and myself. More on that later. (Maybe) Possibly a FNFO for tomorrow.

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New Brunswick (French: Nouveau-Brunswick) is one of Canada’s three Maritime provinces and is the only constitutionally bilingual province (French and English) in the federation. The provincial capital is Fredericton. Statistics Canada estimates the provincial population in 2008 to be 751,527; a majority are English-speaking, but there is also a large Francophone minority (32%), chiefly of Acadian origin.

The province’s name comes from the English translation for the city of Braunschweig in north Germany, the ancestral home of the Hanoverian King George III of the United Kingdom.

Not only is it New Brunswick’s Birthday, it is also CFB Gagetown’s 50th Anniversary! They are celibrating at the old government house and will be providing fireworks for the events too. Plus there will be Free Ice Cream and Lemonaid!

Hopefully the weather lets up enough so I can take a walk over and take some video. Maybe get some tanks and stuff on video.

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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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For those who have been wondering why the web cams have been turned off lately and the Buddy and Brain cam is never running, that’s because when I got my new router for networking both my PC and PS3 together my old capture software wouldn’t work with it.

Well I got some new software and it all up and running again. So you voyuers can get your kicks at whatever you might catch again.

I actually updated all the cams because I noticed a few feeds from the city cams were changed. I also added an extra one that is linked to Justin.tv for when I want to share anything that needs audio, like playing Rock Band on the PS3.

Well that’s it. I’ve wasted enough time and never got anything important completed today. I have to get ready for wok now.

TTFN

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It will also mean a very busy couple of weeks at hell work also. All the while the entire city will be enjoying a week long event, my co-workers and myself will be busting our balls trying to feed everybody’s pie holes.

The East Coast Music Association who pulls off the East Coast Music Association Awards every year in different cities, decided to hold the event in the City of Fredericton. That is unusual in itself, as events like that really don’t happen all that often here anymore. They usually hold big events in neighboring cities like Saint John or Moncton.

I’ve already got my work schedule sitting here in front of me and I have each day filled in on my calendar. I moan every time I look up at it.  Each shift is very long and start and finish times are spurratic. So there’s no point in planning on doing anything or attempting to work on any side projects since I’ll either be working or sleeping.

To top things off, I’ve been trying to shake this cold that seems to put up a good fight. I’ve been taking some Cold FX pills that seem to be keeping it at bay, but as soon as they ware off, I can feel the cold demon trying to make its way in. Cold FX IMO is a great thing to use to fight the common cold/flu.

My nephew was over since Friday and today is the first time since then that I have actually had a good chance of getting on the computer. He always playing this Online Game called Rune Scape.

So while I’ve been off for the past few days, today is my last day off and it’s back to hell again. I’m really not looking forward to the next couple of weeks either. This music awards thing is going to make things very busy at work since we’re right beside the  Delta Hotel that will probably be hosting a lot of these Musicians, and the media that wants to get their stories.

Still no word of any new job opportunities,  and nothing from the Tech Support job that I had applied to. Still have my fingers crossed though.

My head is pounding, I need something to eat. So TTFN!

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