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It's morning in Calgary! Sunny, water levels are down, and our spirit remains strong. We're not out of this, but maybe have turned corner. — Naheed Nenshi (@nenshi) June 22, 2013

An estimated 75,000 people have been forced from their homes in more than two dozen neighbourhoods along the Bow and Elbow Rivers in the city.

Residents in a section of one of those neighbourhoods — the high ground in Discovery Ridge — have been allowed back.

Officials were hoping to be able to open up portions of six more neighbourhoods that didn’t flood. The names of those neighbourhoods will be posted on the city’s website.

Officials said it would probably be midweek at the earliest before access to the city’s downtown core is fully restored.

The flood has hit some of the city’s iconic structures hard. The 19,000-seat Saddledome, home to the NHL’s Calgary Flames, was flooded up to the 10th row, while water lapped at the roof of the chuckwagon barns at the grounds of the Calgary Stampede, which is scheduled to start in two weeks.

Nenshi has said the city will do everything it can to make sure that the world-renowned party goes ahead, saying it “may look different, but the show will go on.” He said he needs a new pair of brown boots in time for the start of the festival in 13 days.

The federal Conservatives were to hold their convention in the city next weekend, but announced Saturday that it would be postponed to a later date.

“After being in discussions with various authorities regarding the situation, it became clear that holding the national convention at this time would not be in the best interests of the people of Calgary,” said Conservative Party president John Walsh.