Jun 272013
Hydrologist finds prediction efforts crippled by poor monitoring systems.
from The Tyee
"Canada's greatest flood, which has severely crippled Alberta's infrastructure and forced the evacuation of more than 100,000 homes, caught flood prediction authorities unprepared, says one of the country's top hydrologists.
"'We were caught flatfooted on this,' says John Pomeroy, the Canada Research Chair in Water Resources and Climate at the University of Saskatchewan and a resident of Canmore.
In the Rocky Mountain town, creeks overflowed their banks, destroying scores of homes and parts of the TransCanada highway before a flood warning was even issued.
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