Edmonton suffered a freak flood/hailstorm earlier this week. From a report prepared by CTV's online staff: “The heavy rainstorm started Sunday afternoon, dumping 150 millimetres of rain on the city. The storm blew in with little warning, flooding homes and turning roads into lakes. Environment Canada called it “a one in 200-year storm. It also created flooding inside Canada's largest shopping centre, the West Edmonton Mall. Around 20,000 people out for a day of Sunday shopping were evacuated.” My CTV colleague Todd Battis did a piece on this for CTV National News. The link to Todd's piece is at the link above. Meanwhile, a friend of my aunt, who lives in Calgary, sent along these photos. Freaky, man, freaky. And then, just a few days, later, Ralph Klein declares that Alberta is debt-free. Coincidence?