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November 4, 2011

Dauphin Sinkhole/Landslide – Late Fall Pictures

Reid Dickie I ventured up to Dauphin in late October and took a few shots of the Dauphin sinkhole which I first reported on back in mid-June. Today the earth has settled even more, the timothy field above it has … Continue reading →

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July 7, 2011

Another Manitoba Sinkhole

Reid Dickie Our engorged rivers are reshaping the Canadian landscape to the extreme this year. Water, in its eternal compulsion to conform to gravity, etches its slow-hewn language through valleys and onto flatlands. Now a new sinkhole has opened up along … Continue reading →

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June 16, 2011

Giant Manitoba Sinkhole Is Getting Deeper! Update June 16

Reid Dickie Compared to my visit to the sinkhole south of Dauphin a week ago, it is much deeper today. The hole covers at least three acres, the size of two Canadian football fields, and in some spots is now a hundred feet … Continue reading →

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June 13, 2011

Giant Manitoba Sinkhole Update – June 13

Reid Dickie ReadReidRead is no longer the only place you can get fresh information about the 50-foot-deep sinkhole south of Dauphin. (Updating my opening statement on June 25/11, the only place to get pics and info is my blog and youtube … Continue reading →

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June 13, 2011

Signs Along the Road

Reid Dickie Three signs from my two-day flood tour. The first can be found just as you are leaving Gladstone heading west on Hwy #16. There is a group of Old Order Mennonites west of town that use horses and buggies necessitating … Continue reading →

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June 12, 2011

Be Happy on the TCH

Reid Dickie Since her death nearly 18 months ago, Linda has communicated one simple and helpful message to me repeatedly: Be Happy! It has come in many forms – from her beautiful gentle voice saying it in my head to … Continue reading →

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June 11, 2011

Giant Manitoba Sinkhole Update

Reid Dickie I saw this giant sinkhole just outside Riding Mountain National Park south of Dauphin, MB firsthand on Thursday evening. Here is my initial post about it. Today I have some new information about the pit. Already fifty feet deep, … Continue reading →

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June 11, 2011

Manitoba Flood Update June 11 – My Driving Tour

Reid Dickie Last Thursday I took a drive into rural Manitoba, destination Dauphin, to check out the aftermath of the torrential rains we received at the beginning of the week. There’s still water everywhere! I travelled out the Trans Canada … Continue reading →

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June 11, 2011

Giant Sinkhole in Manitoba

Reid Dickie The Fisher boys thought they had a pretty good crop of timothy for hay coming along with the wet weather and all. One morning last week a large portion of the crop sank fifty feet straight down leaving a gaping … Continue reading →

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April 25, 2011

My Weekend

         This is a very bloggy thing for me to do but I’m reporting on what I did this weekend. I rented a Ford Fusion from Enterprise (a company I recommend) and drove 800 kms in rural Manitoba since Friday morning, visiting two cousins, making new friends … Continue reading →

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