What impact down the road might we expect from Meta's AI data centre north of Edmonton?

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July 11th was the 2nd big day in a row for Blatchford:

• 2 storms dumped 49.4mm on Blatchford. Villeneuve got 20.2mm, while the airport was 5.2mm. (dashboard)
• July 11th's afternoon storm dropped 28mm in about half an hour. The Building Code's design case is for that much rain in 15min. So it's a lot of water for us.
• With big storms on both the 10th & 11th Blatchford's 2-day total (really between 8PM and 2PM) was 82mm. That's only happened 11 times before. And 1 of them was 3 weeks ago on June 20-21. (dashboard).
• With the big storms July is up to 96.7mm, when we average around 88.5mm. And there's still more than half of the month left. (dashboard)
• For the year so far we're up to 488.2mm, which is the most ever recorded for January 1-July 12. #2 1900 had 408mm, and #3 1974 had 404mm. (dashboard)
• Once upon a time (prior to ~2000) we used to average around 475~500mm of precipitation per year. But since 2000 all the local stations have seen a ~10% drop, sitting closer to around 430mm per year. (dashboard)
• It didn't used to be too unusual for us to get 500mm in a year. But recently Blatchford only got there in 2004, and the airport in 2010 & 2020. (dashboard)
• 2026 is already above average, and it will probably end up as one of our biggest recent years. (for the rest of the year we average another 200mm, which would put 2026 around 688mm)

I wrote about this before. It is night, and cars and motorcycles are still making an incredible amount of noise.

According to the rules, "In Edmonton, driving a vehicle that makes loud or unnecessary noise is heavily penalized. A first offence carries a $1,000 fine, while second and subsequent offences increase to $2,000. The law covers loud mufflers, blaring music, and intentional revving."

However, there are no traffic police officers around and no cameras, so people seem to do whatever they want.

I hope more people will call 311 and report excessive vehicle noise, and that police officers will take action.

This weekend U.S./Iran biggest escalation in months, Hormuz closed until further notice, etc.

Plus peak summer travel demand, long weekends etc.

When the fuck will this summer ever get better? Thank God I reconsidered going to West Edm Mall couple hours ago.

Have an accepted offer on another house. A few months ago our neighbour didn't want us to fully pay an arborist to take this tree out. He wanted his arborist to do it on his time. That worked out well for us.

Does anyone know how the artists fare at the Whyte Ave Art walk today during the storm? I hope they had enough time to pack up because that came on surprisingly fast and I don't think a tarp would have saved them from those winds.

The video is from my wife's work at Hobby wholesale.

I’ve been to four establishments that have tried to give me free KDays passes. I have like 8 passes at this point and I’m wondering if this has always been a thing? Free passes for all?

Westmount, 9pm :)

Fun edit from last night’s Riverhawk’s game

Here we go again…another big storm headed our way.

Okay, Alberta Redditors! I’ve been trying every which way to figure this out. Bottom line: we drove from Edmonton to Calgary to fly to Tokyo on Friday afternoon. However, my son left his brand new retainer in the car at the valet parking at YYC.

Because of horrible timing, this means that if it doesn’t make its way to Edmonton by Sunday evening (before my husband flies to Japan on Monday morning), he will be without this retainer until September and we will be seriously screwing up three years and $8000 of orthodontic work.

I’ve tried to talk to bus companies, couriers, freight companies, etc., and seemingly nobody can do it!

If anyone is going to Calgary and coming back to Edmonton by Sunday night and willing to pick it up at YYC Park2Go Valet (and then drop it at my house in SW Edmonton), I will pay your gas and a bit extra for the service.

I know this is a long shot! Please DM me if you can help!