Anyone wishing for a fast melt this spring saw their wish come true. It may have taken some time, but consistently higher temperatures have been melting the snow at a good speed as we sit in the middle of April.
The problem? The process might be going a little bit too fast.
Cropped photo of Highway 4 near Cadillac (Courtesy of Jenny Hagan Lost in Sask on Facebook/Photo via Holly Franklin/Kelly Thingvold)Intense flooding last week led to several different highways becoming flooded. Pictured above was the flooding noticed on a portion of Highway 4 south by Cadillac.
More than a few highways around Saskatchewan have suffered a similar fate, including closures on either side of Lake Diefenbaker as two stoppages affecting people locally.
The collapsed section of Highway 42 (photos courtesy of Art Ward)Local weather chaser Jenny Hagan wasn't able to watch the erosion take place in real time, but was just as excited to see the aftermath.
Hagan has been witness to some decent runoff herself, but nothing compared to the collections coming in down south. Just like everywhere else the super fast melt contributed to extremely high runoff, overwhelming some dams in the area and forcing water to rush it's way through a small space.
What Hagan is seeing at home is still nothing compared to some of the destruction happening in the southern part of the province like Cadillac. She shared that in nearby Ponteix their golf course was completely submerged in water.
"The creek is normally probably a couple meters wide, and it went to three kilometers there."
At its peak, the creek probably came up about 20 feet according to Hagan.
The chunk of Highway 4 taken out by last week's rising, charging waterChasing weather for some time now, visiting the aftermath of these floods will have to stick in Hagan's memory bank.
"Sometimes the scope of how much water actually flowed in the recent runoff is hard to grasp until flood waters recede" quoted Hagan online.
Thu, Apr 25, 9:30 AM
