2013/06 NWT trip - Okotoks

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Friday June 28th
We drove through Didsbury and rejoined Highway 2, the Deerfoot Trail around Calgary’s east side.  We didn’t realize that we’d been lucky to miss yesterday’s disaster.  A train of tanker cars had derailed nearby because a bridge had been undermined by the flooding, and the Deerfoot had been closed, causing complete chaos.  The tanker cars’ fuel had now been pumped out and they’d been winched off the bridge.

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