A decade without her daughter: tragedy of the 2013 Calgary floods - Calgary | Globalnews.ca

A tree adorned with flowers branches out on the side of a now quiet waterway in High River, Alta. Ten years ago, it was anything but calm.One decade ago Pighin’s daughter Jacqui Brocklebank died in the swollen water of the 2013 floods, her lifeless body was found not far from the tree Janie Pighin visits often.

Brockelbank had cerebral palsy but lived on her own. When the raging water began to pour into the streets of High River, she went to wake up a friend in the flood zone. Her friend survived, but Jacqui lost her life that day.“She went into the flood to try and save someone, and she wasn’t strong enough to do that,” said Pighin “I always say, she came into this world fighting and she went out a hero.

“I did my research in 2018 and what I found was the community was still reeling from the effects of the flooding event,” said Katie Hayes a researcher who studied the mental health impacts the disaster had on people in High River.“There was still anxiety every time they crossed the bridge to come into town, every time it rained children hopped into bed with their parents, worried it would happen again. There was a lot of anxiety and eyes to the sky,” said Hayes.

Janie Pighin is hopeful but not so certain another flood won’t impact the community again. She admits floods anywhere now bother her.

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