Centre of the Universe just couldn’t take it any longer.
In all seriousness, stay safe out there.
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And it’s still raining. Some pix on The Weather Network too.
Yeah…well… when the OPP start breaking down doors and stealing personal property,like guns…oh wait. There are no guns at Jane and Finch. Silly me.
The comments are so typical over there climate change this and climate change that !! Rob ford this and rob ford that!! It’s just pathetic!! I feel bad for torontonians this is gonna hurt them as much as it has hurst calgary and surrounding area. I hope everyone is safe and can stay dry!
Having said that Toronto is a city not a town like high river it would be hard to justify kicking occupied homes of gun owners and seizing guns en mass high river was completely evacuated !! It never happened in Calgary just in high river so I would assume it won’t happen in Toronto but possible in some rural area that votes conservative!! Or something to that effect!!
Stood at Dundas and Spadina while the traffic lights were out and watched people co-operate and get along for a half hour. Nobody even honked.
Tremendously reassuring.
Lights are back on in my area, still raining, but nothing like it was earlier.
Just massive amounts for a long time, it almost seemed like it was drifting like snow.
Stupid Torontonians! Why would they choose to live in a place that floods? Oh wait, didn’t someone here say the same crap about Calgary a little while ago? Oh well, I guess you aren’t safe from the weather no matter where you live.
I remember during the massive East Coast blackout, when the power went out at a major intersection in K-W some guy got out of his car, put on a safety vest and just started directing traffic until the cops showed up and took over. Nobody honked, nobody tried to blow by him, everybody just went about their evening.
Oh well, I guess you aren’t safe from the weather no matter where you live.
Probably not, but I don’t expect others to be my nanny. Kiss it and make it all better for the little kids…
I live on the “Wet Coast” not in Alberta or Ontario, but now I feel left out as it’s been hot and dusty here. My son drives a tow truck in Ontario – he’ll be getting lots of overtime. Hang in there Toronto and stay safe, it will all make its way to the St. Lawrence eventually.
Stay safe. I was down in High River on the weekend helping muck out and strip out a couple of basements so I know what a filthy mess the flooding can leave. Hopefully, being simply rain water, it won’t be quite as messy, but I know it will still be bad enough. Dry out and strip out asap before the mould takes hold. All the best.
Yeah well, here near Woodstock, Morontario we expected a thunderdunder buy basically a few crows flew over…didn’t really lay the dust. One fella came by and reported heavy rain in Tavistock…just north of here…
RE the GTA….Pearson Airport recorded 123mm…(just over 4 ft) and East York 79mm…..that’s a lotta water for an urban area….roofs and pavement….zero absorption…..straight into the streets…..storm sewers…designed to drain maybe 3″ in 24 hours…maybe…Probably take a week or two to drain away. yer gettin’ back to surface drainage….
The Don Valley Parkway is a notorious sluiceway with just an inch er two…..imagine 3 ft.
Hereabouts the municipal drains are engineered for 3″/24hours….seems to be a provincial standard.
Not really unprecedented….I’m old enough to remember Hirricane Hazel…..
I’ll blame it on the wind turbines…..
Hey @sasquatch – unless my math is really really wrong – 123mm = 4 Inches, not feet. Although 4″ is still alot of rain in a concrete jungle…
sdb777, almost 5″ (123/25.4 = 4.84)
Mother nature rules, and sometimes she has a sick sense of humor. She’s enjoying this. It’s called weather folks. Not the first time and won’t be the last time.
What’s that old saying,peterj? Mother Nature can be a real beeyotch?
I was in an Calgary monsoon in summer of 2003. The water came up so fast on the street it drowned the rental car I was in and receded just as fast.
It only hit a few neighborhoods too. People have such short term memories when it comes to stuff.
“..watched people co-operate and get along for a half hour. Nobody even honked.
Tremendously reassuring.”
And that is exactly how people behave in an emergency. Contrary to Hollywood versions and media spin, folks are generally co-operative, gracious and helpful.
And yes indeed, it is tremendously reassuring.
Justthinkin >
“…oh wait. There are no guns at Jane and Finch. Silly me.”
They could start going door to door and confiscating pressure cookers. You just know there’s plenty of pressure cookers in little Abu Dhabi.
Of course that will never happen, the enemy’s out west with a cowboy hat, bible in hand, and a deer in the freezer.
We got about 3″ spread over about 90% of our basement mainly from the neighbour’s brick patio and walkway draining into two of our window-wells! Luckily our basement ground drain worked very well and it had all drained away over about four hours. It dried fairly well overnight although the (cheap) 50-year-old parquet floor is a write-off. Everything else is fine. Our street sewers were fine throughout, I checked on their water level several times, and we didn’t get any backflow into the basement. Thanks for the kind thoughts here and the insults too for giving me a smile.
So if you have an electric car in a thunderstorm and deluge, will it short out and electrocute you in your seat? Just asking…
You know, when we get a few inches of snow out in here in Vancouver and we’re plunged into chaos, the rest of the country smirks at us and makes smart remarks.
But you pansies on the wrong side of the Rockies get a few inches of rain….
Sasquatch, thanks for the update on the low rain handling capability of city storm sewers. Probably time to rethink that specification. As you noted, there’s a huge area of asphalt and concrete with few places for water to go. Sounds like large cities are going to have to do some major upgrading of their rain removal systems but it’s so much easier to blame it on “global warming” instead.
When I was in Florida a couple of months ago had a tropical storm come by for 2 days and during those 2 days 10″ of rain fell. What amazed me was how quickly the water disappeared and the deepest puddles were just ankle high. Of course, Florida, at least on the coast, appears to have equal portions of land and water so there were quite a few places for that rain to go including recharging the fresh water lenses where the fresh water floats on salt water.
I had an arch 1/2 built, and the rain stopped:-))))
Yeah well, I had a senior momment…I’m allowed.
Funny that….seems somehow mm and cm got mixed….I’ll blame the media……
Thought about that after I had gone ta bed…..I figured one of you fella’s would catch that.
And it’s still raining. Some pix on The Weather Network too.
Yeah…well… when the OPP start breaking down doors and stealing personal property,like guns…oh wait. There are no guns at Jane and Finch. Silly me.
The comments are so typical over there climate change this and climate change that !! Rob ford this and rob ford that!! It’s just pathetic!! I feel bad for torontonians this is gonna hurt them as much as it has hurst calgary and surrounding area. I hope everyone is safe and can stay dry!
Having said that Toronto is a city not a town like high river it would be hard to justify kicking occupied homes of gun owners and seizing guns en mass high river was completely evacuated !! It never happened in Calgary just in high river so I would assume it won’t happen in Toronto but possible in some rural area that votes conservative!! Or something to that effect!!
Stood at Dundas and Spadina while the traffic lights were out and watched people co-operate and get along for a half hour. Nobody even honked.
Tremendously reassuring.
Lights are back on in my area, still raining, but nothing like it was earlier.
Just massive amounts for a long time, it almost seemed like it was drifting like snow.
Hey, another chance to raid the public treasury…
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/severe-thunderstorms-cause-major-flooding-traffic-nightmare-in-southern-ontario/8953/
Stupid Torontonians! Why would they choose to live in a place that floods? Oh wait, didn’t someone here say the same crap about Calgary a little while ago? Oh well, I guess you aren’t safe from the weather no matter where you live.
I remember during the massive East Coast blackout, when the power went out at a major intersection in K-W some guy got out of his car, put on a safety vest and just started directing traffic until the cops showed up and took over. Nobody honked, nobody tried to blow by him, everybody just went about their evening.
Oh well, I guess you aren’t safe from the weather no matter where you live.
Probably not, but I don’t expect others to be my nanny. Kiss it and make it all better for the little kids…
I live on the “Wet Coast” not in Alberta or Ontario, but now I feel left out as it’s been hot and dusty here. My son drives a tow truck in Ontario – he’ll be getting lots of overtime. Hang in there Toronto and stay safe, it will all make its way to the St. Lawrence eventually.
Stay safe. I was down in High River on the weekend helping muck out and strip out a couple of basements so I know what a filthy mess the flooding can leave. Hopefully, being simply rain water, it won’t be quite as messy, but I know it will still be bad enough. Dry out and strip out asap before the mould takes hold. All the best.
Yeah well, here near Woodstock, Morontario we expected a thunderdunder buy basically a few crows flew over…didn’t really lay the dust. One fella came by and reported heavy rain in Tavistock…just north of here…
RE the GTA….Pearson Airport recorded 123mm…(just over 4 ft) and East York 79mm…..that’s a lotta water for an urban area….roofs and pavement….zero absorption…..straight into the streets…..storm sewers…designed to drain maybe 3″ in 24 hours…maybe…Probably take a week or two to drain away. yer gettin’ back to surface drainage….
The Don Valley Parkway is a notorious sluiceway with just an inch er two…..imagine 3 ft.
Hereabouts the municipal drains are engineered for 3″/24hours….seems to be a provincial standard.
Not really unprecedented….I’m old enough to remember Hirricane Hazel…..
I’ll blame it on the wind turbines…..
Hey @sasquatch – unless my math is really really wrong – 123mm = 4 Inches, not feet. Although 4″ is still alot of rain in a concrete jungle…
sdb777, almost 5″ (123/25.4 = 4.84)
Mother nature rules, and sometimes she has a sick sense of humor. She’s enjoying this. It’s called weather folks. Not the first time and won’t be the last time.
What’s that old saying,peterj? Mother Nature can be a real beeyotch?
I was in an Calgary monsoon in summer of 2003. The water came up so fast on the street it drowned the rental car I was in and receded just as fast.
It only hit a few neighborhoods too. People have such short term memories when it comes to stuff.
“..watched people co-operate and get along for a half hour. Nobody even honked.
Tremendously reassuring.”
And that is exactly how people behave in an emergency. Contrary to Hollywood versions and media spin, folks are generally co-operative, gracious and helpful.
And yes indeed, it is tremendously reassuring.
Justthinkin >
“…oh wait. There are no guns at Jane and Finch. Silly me.”
They could start going door to door and confiscating pressure cookers. You just know there’s plenty of pressure cookers in little Abu Dhabi.
Of course that will never happen, the enemy’s out west with a cowboy hat, bible in hand, and a deer in the freezer.
We got about 3″ spread over about 90% of our basement mainly from the neighbour’s brick patio and walkway draining into two of our window-wells! Luckily our basement ground drain worked very well and it had all drained away over about four hours. It dried fairly well overnight although the (cheap) 50-year-old parquet floor is a write-off. Everything else is fine. Our street sewers were fine throughout, I checked on their water level several times, and we didn’t get any backflow into the basement. Thanks for the kind thoughts here and the insults too for giving me a smile.
So if you have an electric car in a thunderstorm and deluge, will it short out and electrocute you in your seat? Just asking…
You know, when we get a few inches of snow out in here in Vancouver and we’re plunged into chaos, the rest of the country smirks at us and makes smart remarks.
But you pansies on the wrong side of the Rockies get a few inches of rain….
Sasquatch, thanks for the update on the low rain handling capability of city storm sewers. Probably time to rethink that specification. As you noted, there’s a huge area of asphalt and concrete with few places for water to go. Sounds like large cities are going to have to do some major upgrading of their rain removal systems but it’s so much easier to blame it on “global warming” instead.
When I was in Florida a couple of months ago had a tropical storm come by for 2 days and during those 2 days 10″ of rain fell. What amazed me was how quickly the water disappeared and the deepest puddles were just ankle high. Of course, Florida, at least on the coast, appears to have equal portions of land and water so there were quite a few places for that rain to go including recharging the fresh water lenses where the fresh water floats on salt water.
I had an arch 1/2 built, and the rain stopped:-))))
Yeah well, I had a senior momment…I’m allowed.
Funny that….seems somehow mm and cm got mixed….I’ll blame the media……
Thought about that after I had gone ta bed…..I figured one of you fella’s would catch that.