Wind storm slows morning commute
Posted Nov 28, 2011 7:54 am.
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Monday morning commuters headed to Calgary’s downtown core are having tough-go.
A number of downtown streets are blocked, CTrain service along 7th Avenue is still closed as crews continue to repair damage and clean-up following a wind storm Sunday.
The strong winds knocked down trees and blew-out windows, leaving debris scattered all over downtown and other parts of Calgary.
A lot of commuters at the Bridgeland LRT station tell 660News they will be late for work due to the delays, including needing to take shuttle busses into downtown instead of the CTrain.
One woman on her way to work in Mindapore says she’s frustrated with the lack of information about the delays at the McKnight Station.
“They just told me right now (at the Bridgeland Station),” she says. “If they had told me earlier, I would have taken my car to work instead.”
Some commuters did look at the lighter-side of things saying work will still be there when they get there, so it’s not a big deal.
Meteorologist David Spence says the wind-storm was the strongest in memory with wind gusts reaching 91 km/H at the Calgary International Airport.
He says that was nothing compared to the 14 locations in Southern Alberta where gusts were measured at over 100 km/H.
The strongest was in Claresholm with one gust touching 144 km/H.
Spence says the Chinook also led to seven high temperature records.
Drumheller was the warmest at 16 degrees; Calgary’s high of 14 was not a record.
