Daniel MacPhee 🔬🧬🧫🇨🇦

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Massive avalanche closes Alberta’s Icefields Parkway until at least Saturday
#Alberta #Canada #Parks #Icefields
https://globalnews.ca/news/11742715/massive-avalanche-closes-alberta-icefields-parkway-until-at-least-saturday/

Massive avalanche closes Alberta’s Icefields Parkway until at least Saturday

A massive, 500-metre wide avalanche triggered by Parks Canada staff during avalanche control work on Highway 93 over the weekend shutdown the Icefields Parkway.

Global News
Mar 25 at 3:22amWeb
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@dmacphee

“The avalanche itself was close to 500 metres wide and traveled a total distance of about two and a half kilometres downhill to reach the highway — and then ended up putting a pile of debris on the highway that’s about 250 metres long and six to eight metres high,”

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Show threadPaul Turnbull 🇨🇦Mar 25
@crispius @dmacphee And it was the second this year on that slide path to reach the highway. A lot of snow there.
Show threadPaul Turnbull 🇨🇦Mar 25
@dmacphee No oops here, better this than having it all come down on its own.