MumsieK9

Onyx's mom

[MumsieK9 @K9Mumsie]

@Martyupnorth Typically locations I’m driving to are in hours. Everything else is in blocks (in the city) or km

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@servicerotties Although it’s not as much fun as a new fur friend, your future self will be thanking the humans in January when it’s super cold outside

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@NightShiftMD The way I see it, an e-scooter is motorized. Where I live you must be 14 to operate motorized vehicles. Why is this different?

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@bunsenbernerbmd They won’t let you out of their sight for the next week!

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@StevesThrillers People are assholes! A family member contracted bacterial meningitis as a baby. This resulted in serious scarring on all their limbs. Wearing shorts draws attention as a teen and adult. My answer is that is an honor to keep your legs - some don’t!

[MumsieK9 @K9Mumsie]

@HeyPistol He was such a handsome boy 🐾❤️

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@servicerotties Oh the injustice! @DairyQueen I get your crew needs time off, but Chesnyy needs her ice cream!

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@servicerotties I’m excited to see you show Kenji all the cool stuff at the trials!

[MumsieK9 @K9Mumsie]

After the tornado hit the trailer park, the mall was a place of refuge fore many people, however we were all instructed to go to the basement level, so no access to food and limited water. The phone lines were down (no cell phones then) so trying to contact people was difficult.

[MumsieK9 @K9Mumsie]

There are few days I remember with such clarity, but this was one of them. I was working in Londonderry mall 4-9 and as I waited for the bus around 3.30 I recall how hot and still the air felt, but the clouds were green and stirring. Little did I know what was coming.

[YEGWAVE @yegwave]

🌪️ Thirty-nine years ago, almost to the day, a summer storm did far more than soak the ground. What happened on July 31, 1987 is still the deadliest day in Edmonton’s history.

The morning felt like any other summer day, hot and hazy, with holiday traffic already building for the long weekend. A low-pressure system had been dragging warm, humid air up from the south for days, and by early afternoon the sky had turned an unsettling shade of green, the air heavy and strange. Just before 3pm, a man on an acreage near Leduc became the first person to spot the funnel and call it in.

At 2:55pm the funnel touched down and started tracking north into the city, intensifying almost immediately into an F4, the second highest rating a tornado can receive, with winds reaching around 418 km/h. Some later analysis of the ground scarring even suggested pockets of F5 strength, though the official rating stayed at F4. It briefly weakened crossing the North Saskatchewan River, but the worst was still ahead.

It tore through southeast Mill Woods first, dropping hail up to ten centimetres wide, then cut through the industrial core of the city, passing directly between two operating oil refineries and narrowly missing a chemical plant, a power station, and a second trailer park entirely. Freight trains were derailed, one of them hauling hazardous materials, and vehicles were thrown through the air. By the time it reached Clareview in the northeast around 4pm and finally lifted, it had been on the ground just over an hour, cutting a path of destruction roughly 37 kilometres long.

The worst of it hit the Evergreen Mobile Home Park, where a two-block stretch of destruction killed 15 people and destroyed close to 200 homes, some trailers left piled three high on top of each other. It remains the single deadliest location anywhere along the tornado’s path.

Another 12 people died along Refinery Row, bringing the total to 27, though early reports that afternoon feared it could reach as high as 36. Hundreds more were hurt, and hundreds of families lost their homes entirely. Crews spent the next 24 hours searching collapsed buildings and wrecked vehicles for survivors, working through gas leaks, fires, and flooding the storm left behind.

Mayor Laurence Decore declared a state of emergency that evening, once the scale of it became clear. The Canadian Red Cross opened a relief centre for those displaced, with Canadian Forces members joining local crews in the cleanup. Total damage came to more than $332 million in 1987 dollars, close to $800 million today, making it one of the costliest natural disasters in the country’s history at the time.

It’s still the second deadliest tornado ever recorded in Canada, behind only the 1912 Regina Cyclone, which killed 28. As of the most recent count, it remains the deadliest and most destructive tornado Alberta has ever seen.

Black Friday exposed how little warning people actually had once the weather turned deadly, and it led directly to Alberta’s Emergency Public Warning System in 1992, the forerunner to today’s Alberta Emergency Alert. It reshaped how the country invested in severe weather radar and warning technology for decades after.

If you were here in 1987, or grew up hearing about it from someone who was, drop your memories in the comments.

[MumsieK9 @K9Mumsie]

@zakwilliams As someone who grew up with Robin’s comedic genius, I’ve grown to miss him more recently. His quirky style hasn’t been replicated since and I think the world can use more of Robin Williams’ humor. If only the world was more like his type of humor ❤️

[MumsieK9 @K9Mumsie]

@servicerotties @cloe_the_bear Onyx likes the way you think Chesnyy!

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@DoodleNessa How devastating! Sending you all the love to get through this difficult time. I’m sure Nessa is showing Macie all the fun places to play on the other side 💔🌈🐾

[MumsieK9 @K9Mumsie]

"My area is inundated with mosquitoes after record rainfall this summer. I started with just my ankles and legs to see how it worked. Not one bite on the lower part of my body! It works and smells great https://t.co/Ew8MvOIgLh

[MumsieK9 @K9Mumsie]

This is such heartbreaking news! I didn’t know the Bandal’s personally but have seen them numerous times in the neighborhood
May they rest in peace 🕊️

[Edmonton Police @edmontonpolice]

Two confirmed dead, one located safe in northeast apartment fire: Both missing people have now been accounted for in Monday’s apartment fire in Northeast Edmonton.

An 82-year-old female has been confirmed deceased in the fire, bringing the fatalities… https://t.co/jqxCrhws3A

[MumsieK9 @K9Mumsie]

@Kerr_BJ14 @YEGMilkman The 7/11 & Petro Can is in the NE corner of this intersection. This is the SW corner

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@SteveSkojec What happened to the other person that was with the man? He never came out of the bush!

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@servicerotties All the 🐾🐾
When I first got Onyx, people said she doesn’t belong in the city. She needs space to run - well my yard is bigger than most and just a couple blocks away is a large field with lots of room to play!

[MumsieK9 @K9Mumsie]

Since when has the Alberta flag become a political symbol?
Give me a break!
Yes, I have Alberta pride, but I am also Canadian!
Both things can be true

[YEGWAVE @yegwave]

A Bonnie Doon Safeway in Edmonton is facing criticism after a customer complained about the store using Alberta flags to promote Alberta-made products.

Sobeys, Safeway’s parent company, says the flags are used to identify locally made products and are not intended as a political statement.

[MumsieK9 @K9Mumsie]

@sheshem I love hoe everyone on here is debating whether or not to stick it to the UCP
No matter the party, I don’t get that opportunity
No federal food payout nor the Dani bucks for me! I pay my taxes just as much as the next person and would love the opportunity to worry about it 🤯