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Strong storms hammer southeast Alberta Thursday

Parts of the southeastern part of the province got slammed with a line of thunderstorms Thursday, which resulted in flooding in some areas, including in Medicine Hat.

Photos posted to social media showed water as high as the tops of vehicle tires in that city and piles of hail which made it look more like snow.

The storms started moving through the southeast just after the noon hour from Montana. Wind gusts were clocked at more than 100 km/h across that region as well.

Photo credit to Medicine Hat Fire Dept on Twitter

The Medicine Hat Fire Department posted a photo online showing fire fighters wading through some flooded streets. There was so much water, one video posted online showed a man floating down a street on an air mattress.

The storms even caused power outages around Medicine Hat. There was so much water, parts of the Medicine Hat Hospital dealt with flooding in its basement.

There were no injures reported from the powerful storms and all the electricity was restored across that city late Thursday evening.

The nastiest of the weather spared Lethbridge, with the worst conditions from Bow Island east to the Hat. Lethbridge received a good dump of rain in the morning, before things tapered off Thursday afternoon.

Conditions are forecast to improve dramatically heading into the Canada Day long weekend right across southern Alberta.

Patrick Siedlecki
Patrick Siedlecki
Pat has been a mainstay in the CJOC News department from the time the station launched in 2007. He's been in the position of News Director since then and has been anchoring daily news casts as well as reporting and working behind the scenes. Community is important to him and keeping CJOC listeners and readers informed about what's happening across southern Alberta and beyond. Pat has been in radio broadcasting for the past 24 years, starting in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island in 1997 and then moving up island to Nanaimo for another few years before heading to Lethbridge in 2007. Pat grew up in the small Saskatchewan farming town of Foam Lake. After high school, he went to Western Academy Broadcasting College (WABC) in Saskatoon prior to moving to the island. Pat also spent several years broadcasting hockey in the BCHL as well as seven years as the radio voice of the Lethbridge Hurricanes in the WHL. Pat has been working at Cornerstone Funeral Home in Lethbridge as a Certified Life Celebrant and Funeral Assistant since 2016. News and sports have always been Pat's passion from the time he was a teenager and he's always been grateful to have had the opportunity to make that part of what's been a fun and long radio career!
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