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Toronto floods
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JP is fine - we actually left town just as the rain started. Drove up to Bracebridge, 2 hours north of Toronto in Cottage country. Anyways, the rain was torrential! For about an hour (in rush hour traffic to boot) we got maybe 3 miles. Then it cleared up and drizzled as we made our way along. Didn't even realize it was so bad till we drove home two hours later. Got home - no power till about 2 am. But, fortunately, the basement was dry - we are very close to the lake and do have a sump pump. (Interestingly, 10 minutes before I left I "reboxed" a box of old family photos from plastic (we needed the tub) to cardboard (it was handy) and left the box on the floor next to the pile on the floor with pretty much all my Vauxhall documentation & manuals <phew>
My aunt lives ten minutes away at the top of a steep ravine - the steps were at the bottom of the hill, her basement is wet and the park at the bottom of the hill is actually a flood plain so was impassable.
Interestingly, Hurricane Hazel in 1954 (81 people in Ontario lost their lives) came onshore about three blocks from our house and in the same time dropped 138mm of water to the 127mm (5 inches) we received yesterday.
As an aside, months ago I was listening to an engineer talking about climate change and its effect in infrastructure, I could never understand the connection (except for potential AC &/or furnace use.) He explained it in terms of the sewers, that the capacity of sewers is determined by a "on in 50 years or one in a century" storm. He made the point that storms of this magnitude can happen once or twice a year now. (Union Station was flooded last year, June 1 and again yesterday) . In May the Don Valley parkway (a floodplain) was closed for flooding, and again yesterday.
My aunt lives ten minutes away at the top of a steep ravine - the steps were at the bottom of the hill, her basement is wet and the park at the bottom of the hill is actually a flood plain so was impassable.
Interestingly, Hurricane Hazel in 1954 (81 people in Ontario lost their lives) came onshore about three blocks from our house and in the same time dropped 138mm of water to the 127mm (5 inches) we received yesterday.
As an aside, months ago I was listening to an engineer talking about climate change and its effect in infrastructure, I could never understand the connection (except for potential AC &/or furnace use.) He explained it in terms of the sewers, that the capacity of sewers is determined by a "on in 50 years or one in a century" storm. He made the point that storms of this magnitude can happen once or twice a year now. (Union Station was flooded last year, June 1 and again yesterday) . In May the Don Valley parkway (a floodplain) was closed for flooding, and again yesterday.
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I saw it on the news last night... you guys got hammered! Glad all is well with you.
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So, a quick update - my daughter works at a nearby mall which is still closed - and they just issued a thunderstorm warning for today (not as bad though - they say!)
anyways, here are some pictures
https://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2013/07/your-photos-of-gta-floods.html
and this is big news - the abandoned Ferrari
https://www.wheels.ca/news/flood-aftermath-who-will-think-of-the-ferrari/
and of course bureaucracy never sleeps
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...o_injury_after_rising_water_disables_car.html
anyways, here are some pictures
https://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2013/07/your-photos-of-gta-floods.html
and this is big news - the abandoned Ferrari
https://www.wheels.ca/news/flood-aftermath-who-will-think-of-the-ferrari/
and of course bureaucracy never sleeps
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...o_injury_after_rising_water_disables_car.html