Incase u were wondering why there is water. The snow melted in Croatia causing sand storms in Dubai that damaged the reef in Australia and then England made toast for breakfast. And if were wondering about the water in the vid then.....idk bro
The Headwaters of both North and South Saskatchewan Rivers start in the Rocky Mountains around Rocky Mountain House. !!!!!! I've rafted sections of each for weeks at a time across southern Alberta and Sask.
It’s crazy I’ve had bad dreams about this same scenario but then either all the cars get washed away or it turns into a bridge that’s missing part of the road
I have this dream, too, where I’m driving on a bridge out into the ocean. I look ahead and it’s just water and I look behind me and it’s just water. Very creepy.
Can’t say that we get 5 to 6’ of snow. That’s a bit misleading. We can get 6’ drifts of snow, but the average snow pack is seldom more than a foot deep. Some winters we hardly have any snow at all.
Just a geographical fact. It's spring run off, snow melt, heavy rain fall that add to the high water table in Saskatchewan not to mention large bodies of water merging combined with low elevation in Saskatchewan in many places. The water that you are driving over is not from the mountains. The place or area that you were driving through there are no mountains. Saskatchewan has no mountains. I know because I live in Sask.
I laughed too. And curious to know where this was. It looks like the drive from Weyburn to Estevan. I know a place or two that could flood like that (without mountain runoff).
I was laughing when he said it was coming from the mountains considering he's in Saskatchewan. Haha! Just say you don't know. Instead of lying to your kid and giving them false information. I wonder what his wife was thinking. 😄 haha
@@waynemorrison5204 Is this how you speak in your real life? If so, I feel sorry for you and your family. I hope your day improves and free of hate and rage.
I remember in 2013/2014 in Saskatchewan after a winter of heavy snowfall a stretch of highway 14 got flooded and lakes formed on the sides of the highway that stayed there for YEARS.
This reminds me once when I was a kid here in my country there was a very old bridge that was just a one way bridge that was built on the WWll times. It was a short old concrete and rusty Iron structure that crossed a 164 feet high canyon whith a river at the bottom. Just small cars could pass through and I was in a big van with 12 people so they decided to allow us to cross and when the van were right at the middle, we heard a crack noise...
I've always been told that being a parent can give you the patience of a Saint. Dude, the kid and all the questions. I would've given up by question 4. "Son, idk ANYTHING. Just enjoy the ride, sweetie. "
I always loved kids’ questions. reminds me when I was young, I always hate it when adults don’t answer the kids’ questions correctly because they think they are still “too young”.
Well it is a massive province. It sounds like such a stereotype towards Canadians when someone says oh look at that road in Canada. You're from Canada. You must know where that road is. There are thousands of Highways across Canada. And even more roads. Chances are, you wouldn't see this road unless you travelled a lot.
I live very close to here, it’s surreal driving through, some areas the water goes all the way to the horizon and it looks like an ocean but with old fences and barn remnants sticking out. I feel sad for the people who lost their land and their family homes of generations, so much history washed away probably :(
in the 60's Alaska had a horrible Earthquake and Tsunami. It was so bad, they made a tsunami warning center there to prevent that tragedy from happening again.
They typically do not leave it like this, we had this type of road flooding west of my city in Saskatchewan, and they installed culverts to drain potential water from the road. There is a very short window of time to do road repairs in our province, due to the short summers we experience.
I live in Florida and there is this back road I have to take to school. Whenever it rains the road floods for about 100 yards. So I thought when clicking on this video it would be like that. I was wrong.
I agree with the comments made about when the dad said where the water came from. The only way melted snow from the mountains could ever cause this type of flooding, would be if the highway was next to a river. It's true, though, the water did come from lots of snow fall. Or possibly lots of rain.
@@peterrivney552 yes we got 40 to 50 inches of rain that year. About 2011 I believe. If the North or South Saskatchewan rivers flooded that could be water from the mountains.
Guys water travels...... especially when gravity happens and it goes down lol and there’s so much more to it but that requires a whole ass paragraph that I don’t want to write.
Come on up or over, plenty of room in our province, big blue skies, and you're only seeing flat land in this video. The whole north of our province is forest, it is an amazing place to live!
I'm not sure where this was taken, but some rivers such as the South Saskatchewan River are fed by runoff from the mountains in BC & Alberta. So, he may be correct by saying "The water coming from the mountains"
There's rivers that get their start in BC like you mention in Saskatchewan, but this flood is local. From the spring thaw. Lots of snow came down.The area where this is like a huge bowl. There's small hills a few miles apart. The water collects at the bottom where the highway is. Usually the water on either side of the ditch, which you can't see at the moment.The highway is usually 8 feet above the water.
Can confirm that flooding is NOT from mountains as the mountains are a solid 8 hour drive from Saskatchewan. Not sure what drugs this guy is on. My guess as to how this flooding occurs is that many ditches are filled with water which freezes over the winter, which then melts again along with the snow from the season. Sask goes from being incredibly cold to incredibly hot very fast around April/Mayish, causing a lot of flooding almost every spring in southern Sask. I'm from the middle part of the province that just touches the boreal forest so I didn't really see this growing up. But I can confirm this is not very unusual here on the prairies.
They need to do something to this road similarly what was done on the Belt Parkway in NY by actually lifting the road like that of a bridge above the area that frequently floods.
And most likely they did. We had the exact same thing west of my city here in Sask., in fact I thought it might be the same highway at first, they eventually did road work and installed diversion culverts.
Correct me if I’m wrong but this must be old footage, because if this is the place in Saskatchewan I’m familiar with, didn’t they raise the highway in the last 3 years?
