How do you restore iCal calendars in Time Machine

I recently updated to iCloud from Mobile Me and when I opened iCal I noticed that the Mobile Me calendars and the iCloud Calendars were the same, so I deleted all my Mobile Me calendars and to my horror realized after reopening iCal that all the caledars were deleted in the iCloud calendar as well.
How do I restore those calendars via Time Machine? I am running OS X Lion and although I have made the terminal change so I can see my user Library folder, within Time Machine it does not show up.
Help!!

Well, I guess they're not really ical backups, per se.
When i went to migrate MobileMe to iCloud, it said "make sure you back up your calendars first" and I almost didn't do it because I figured I have TM if I need it, but decided just to be safe...
so I did file>export>export for each calendar.
Then after the migration seemed to go smoothly, I deleted them.
Then got into this snafu.
Fortunately, was able to TM back to the desktop from right before I erased them.
so I restored them, then imported them one by one, and so far it looks like everything is good.  Knock on wood.
It's still frightening to me though that an accidental deletion from the cloud turns into a day of screwing around to restore things!!  It shouldn't be that easy to just permanently erase so much important data. I shouldn't have to manually export all my calendars every day if I want a backup...

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