Field Trip Near Ottawa to Fitzroy Harbour Town Flooded Out by Ottawa River Spring Freshet
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
- While I visited my friend in the small town of Fitzroy Harbour west of Ottawa I walked around with Newton to assess the 2023 Ottawa River flooding. I could not keep Newton out of the flood waters, since there were numerous sticks floating around that he found irresistible to gather.
Record flooding on the Ottawa River occurred in 2019, followed closely by this year (2023) and then 2017. Within the past 7 years, the three most extensive floods of the Ottawa River have occurred, according to the record books.
This year, the Ottawa River first crested last week, after a mini-heat wave over several days wiped out a deep snow cover in Ottawa and the northern river basins in Ontario and Quebec. There was a lag of a few days for this rapid snow melt derived water to work it’s way into the river and flow downstream to Ottawa and surrounding regions, causing the initial peak.
Then, on Monday this week, we had prolonged heavy rainfall in Ottawa (over 50 mm or two inches of rainfall) and in the northern drainage basins feeding the Ottawa River. Again, there was a time lag of about 2 - 3 days, and the river crested even higher on May 4th when I filmed this video. Thankfully, the spring rains held off after Mondays deluge, so the river flooding should subside and we should be through the worst of it.
We were quite lucky that the heavy rainfall event did not happen the previous week in combination with the heat wave. If this has happened, then I think we would have had a record flooding event in Ottawa, surpassing both the 2019 and 2017 events by a wide margin.
I hope that all the sandbags that have been put around properties along the river are left in place permanently, and covered over with rocks and soil, to this act as earthen berms to mitigate future flooding that is bound to happen frequently in future years. This seems like common sense to me, which is not as common in reality as I would expect. Maybe I should refer to it as uncommon sense?
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While I visited my friend in the small town of Fitzroy Harbour west of Ottawa I walked around with Newton to assess the 2023 Ottawa River flooding. I could not keep Newton out of the flood waters, since there were numerous sticks floating around that he found irresistible to gather.
Record flooding on the Ottawa River occurred in 2019, followed closely by this year (2023) and then 2017. Within the past 7 years, the three most extensive floods of the Ottawa River have occurred, according to the record books.
This year, the Ottawa River first crested last week, after a mini-heat wave over several days wiped out a deep snow cover in Ottawa and the northern river basins in Ontario and Quebec. There was a lag of a few days for this rapid snow melt derived water to work it’s way into the river and flow downstream to Ottawa and surrounding regions, causing the initial peak.
Then, on Monday this week, we had prolonged heavy rainfall in Ottawa (over 50 mm or two inches of rainfall) and in the northern drainage basins feeding the Ottawa River. Again, there was a time lag of about 2 - 3 days, and the river crested even higher on May 4th when I filmed this video. Thankfully, the spring rains held off after Mondays deluge, so the river flooding should subside and we should be through the worst of it.
We were quite lucky that the heavy rainfall event did not happen the previous week in combination with the heat wave. If this has happened, then I think we would have had a record flooding event in Ottawa, surpassing both the 2019 and 2017 events by a wide margin.
I hope that all the sandbags that have been put around properties along the river are left in place permanently, and covered over with rocks and soil, to this act as earthen berms to mitigate future flooding that is bound to happen frequently in future years. This seems like common sense to me, which is not as common in reality as I would expect. Maybe I should refer to it as uncommon sense?
Please donate to PaulBeckwith.net to support my research and videos as I join the dots on abrupt climate system change.
Hi Paul, your vids are important, more people should watch them and subscribe. work on your presentation to help with this. just a little bit of style goes a long way. love n peace.
Thank You Paul and Newton. 🌍🙃
Oh yes, your photo smiling and the flooded street behind you. Beautiful 😊 I mean for years you have been sounding the alarm.
I live not far by drive from Fitzroy Harbour but haven't walked around there in years. I didn't realize so many houses were up on stilts, but not suprised given the levels the Ottawa River has been reaching in spring the last few years.
Newton is too cute. And full of energy 😊
Weather weirding and whiplasing everywhere because of the meandering jet stream as you've pointed out many times. Cool to see you go down to ground level and film it up close. How people go about their lives and continue living as if none of this is happening is beyond my comprehension. Who would buy that piece of land knowing it'll be flooded any moment? Uncommon sense is a new word!
...I think when things get troubling might be when we hold tight to old habits all the more fiercely..some of us, more over some of us are in the habit of winging it.
Maybe a thoughts also. As Paul has said, 'the new normal' is abnormal while the masses go la, la, la in the west. The terrorist invasion of Ukraine seems a reflection of what we've perpetrated upon our earth. It's an odd time to be living.
@@bordermaven Agree
Newton's a handfull! Just like a young kid (which he is!) Very funny😁😁
Hi Paul. Patron. Hang in there. Your work is important, to me. There is not many like you telling the truth scientifically. People know but they don’t want to hear. Canada like so many Democracy don’t tell the truth, like Covid-19. Thanks Paul. I also Patreon Roger Hallam.
Hoping your real estate disclosure requirements will properly warn prospective buyers. It will only get worse.
What would Newton do if you took him off his leash? Is there a leash law in that tiny peaceful town?
In the context of this location now consider what the Ontario provincial government has done to effectively eliminate the input and controls by the Conservation Authorities in Ontario particularly related to flood plain mapping and development controls coupled with their appetite for Ministerial Zoning Orders to permit housing construction and land development. The insurance sector will protect their interests. Now the leader wants to ramp up electricity generation with natural gas. It would be a very helpful analysis if someone who had access to the right resources to overlay farmland and floodplain mapping in Ontario.
I was waiting for this video when I heard of the flooding in Quebec. You Canadians are getting CLOBBERED! So sorry ! Water is so destructive! Newton is such a cute goof! 💓
Living on an isthmus, ice convert to water world blink of Neptune's eye.
I'm not a scientist so i rely on the infomation put forth by those who are doing the research on the issues of climate change and our ecosystems. It makes it dificult to see what is going on when the evidence is coming from different sources and dots must be connected by those who don't know about this stuff. I think that's why many people fail to see the dire need to act. I try to have conversations with people at work about this topic and they're not even interested and don't care. They say earth goes through changes and many of them are reigious so it's god's plan and there's nothing we can do. We have to look at the evidence but the evidence needs to be presented in such a way that it shows scientists are all on the same page about this. Many species have become extinct already because of human activities. The situation is past dire for them and the co2 levels are higher than ever. On a side note I've always wondered about cyanobacteria and how such a small organism produced oxygen and changed the planet forever and poisoned life previous to it. I wonder how long it took to do that. I don't understand how people can deny the things we do can't have the same effect.
Pleased to hear about Newton, and not the culpable billionaires. I hope Newton is not eating too much dog food, nor enjoying a large dog house, nor sleeping in an excessively comfortable doggie bed, with the resultant totally unjustifiably enormous carbon paw print. Perish the thought.
Walk along the road, filming? Someone going to call the police,maybe not this is not the U.S.