I should have posted about this quite a few days ago, but never got a chance to sit down to do so.
Canada Day was an interesting day in Lethbridge. The City of Lethbridge declared a state of emergency. We had quite the downpour. Grandma and Grandpa Yeomans (and Uncle Matt) had all ran to the store to get some groceries. While they were gone, there was the craziest of rain. It just started suddenly. Grandpa Yeomans said that when he came out of the grocery store it looked like everyone in the parking lot had flat tires, only once he was out there did he realize it was several inches of water on the ground. Many of the streets in Lethrbidge flooded, quite a few of them up to mid-door of people's cars. Luckily we live on a high street, but many neighbouring streets you now see piles of carpet on the curb. It's crazy what 45 mm of rain in 90 minutes can do. The morning had been quite nice, it just happened around noon, very suddenly.
Here's a link to a news story - we made National News that day!
Pretty well all the Canada Day activities were cancelled, there was also lightning that struck the local baseball stadium lights (luckily the game was cancelled as well).
Josh took a few pictures as well, not sure if they turned out, but I'll get him to link them if they did. It was like standing under a waterfall outside.
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