CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) – By last Friday morning in Canada’s oil capital, the scope of the disaster facing Calgary was becoming clear, and the reputation of the city’s first-term mayor was rising along with the floodwaters.
As the two rivers in the city of 1.1 million reached new heights in the worst flooding the province of Alberta has ever seen, a growing list of neighborhoods were evacuated and the downtown home to Canada’s largest oil companies was shut down as electrical substations failed.
In the chaos, Naheed Nenshi, the first Muslim elected to the office in a major North American city, was a ubiquitous presence – at media briefings, on Twitter, updating the status of city services, reminding Calgarians to stay safe and praising emergency workers. His well-timed jokes lightened the mood.
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