Many of you will have no idea what happened at the course last night. Aside from another storm bringing the standard heavy rains and hail we also were hit with extremely powerful, damaging winds. Very weird as it was almost 5? years to the day when the Edmonton river valley was hit with the "Push Wind" that caused severe damage to all the courses along the river.
Regardless of whatever the winds are called we have a long day or 2 ahead of us. Every hole has debris to remove from greens, tees, bunkers and fairways. Some are worse than others. The plan is to remove all debris with greens, tees and aprons being priority. The path from 8 green to 9 tee is impassable. Several trees from the City side fell south onto the course, crushing the fence and blocking access . In fact 2 members were lucky to escape injury as their power cart was hit by a falling tree. There are also other large trees that have fallen on holes 1, 3, 7, 9 and 18. ArborCare Tree Service may have to take care of some of the work on Monday. One positive: There appears to be very few if any large branches broken and hanging from above.
Water removal from fairways and bunkers as well as bunker sand adjustment will be the final step of the cleanup procedure. The forecast is calling for heavy showers and/or rain tonight so until we know for sure I don't want to waste valuable time and labour.
Unfortunately being a weekend we have reduced staff numbers but we have managed to contact some of them that had it off to come in and help out. The Golf Shop/Member Services guys will also be helping out which will be much appreciated.
I'm sad to say that the course is closed again until we can make it playable.
All for now,
Wade
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