(Brandie Weikle/ CBC News) — Sadie Vipond was just seven years old when she first experienced the negative effects of extreme weather, the kind expected to happen more often with climate change.
Her Calgary neighbourhood was evacuated because of severe flooding in 2013, the most destructive in Alberta’s history.
“I remember being woken up in the middle of the night by my grandmother saying, ‘We have to go.’ And I remember driving up to a family friend’s house and staying there for three days, I believe, and school had been cancelled at that point.”
Though their family home survived, Sadie, now 15, told White Coat, Black Art host Dr. Brian Goldman she was old enough to sense the danger in the situation and “definitely was very worried.” (…)