Does your place of residence make you immune from climate calamity? I think not! (Opinion)
by Larry Powell UPDATE...The Rivers dam mentioned in this story has now been declared by government engineers to be safe. I wish I had a nickel for every time I heard one of my fellow "prairie dogs" remark, how "lucky" or how "blessed" we are to be spared the kind of brutal weather that may be pummelling another part of the country or the world at the time. Occasionally, I'll try to remind them, we've already experienced disastrous conditions in our own "neck of the woods" (the eastern prairies) in recent years. They seem either unaware of what I say, or believe they're nothing worse than we've ever had. So are they or aren't they? The examples I list below (starting last fall up to the present) are extreme weather events which have broken records or are unprecedented in the human record. They'e not born of this writer's imagination, but from Environment Canada, the body of record on such matters. (E