Flooding Rain Shuts Down Major Roads And Transit In Toronto

Multiple rounds of thunderstorms on Tuesday brought one of the wettest days this summer across parts of southern Ontario. Flash floods stranded many drivers and commuters, while power was cut to hundreds of thousands of customers. The Weather Network's Kim MacDonald has more.

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[koolerpure]

Finally the city can wake up with how bad it’s designed

[conradmcdougall]

Im glad that $600K was ised to rename Dundas square

[stephenstaeger]

Let's change the names of the roads!

[justincase]

Sure the government has ignored infrastructure and flood control for years in toronto. But at least we have well-maintained bike paths and safe injection sites, right?

[MJ-fmwb]

Speechless seeing all this. No word to describe how badly we are prepared for a major disaster

[phillydisc]

When you invest more time and energy building condos instead of working on the infrastructure.

[NEKRWSPHERE]

I've been so lucky in regards to the floods. So far anyway. Sometimes I think I live on a different planet altogether. Living and working North of the Green Line - I haven't even seen a single puddle, never mind a flood. Haven't been caught by the rain yet, somehow it always happens when I'm indoors, and by the time I head out, - even the asphalt is dry. Reminds me of the Covid situation, - you open your browser and people are dying in great swaths left and right, my neighbor's TV is screaming how it's practically the end of human civilization, the virus is going to kill us all, each province competes in who comes up with the most idiotic restrictions, (Quebec and Ontario and other provinces who enforced curfews or banned camping or non-team outdoor sports like tennis or archery, - I'm especially referring to you) and I, no never mind not knowing anyone who died or was seriously ill, I don't even know of anyone WHO KNOWS anyone who died or got seriously ill!

[VS]

Toronto infrastructure is just weak on all fronts. It thinks it's a world class city but it's not.

[RokoDumnjak]

I’m sorry Mrs Mayor! But it’s not climate change! Don’t blame the weather, maybe be prepared, spend money cleaning sewage, better planning for these situations, the water needs to flow/ discharge properly!

[AlAl-bj]

Why do we pay taxes? The government should reimburse us for the road we pay for.

[all_pro]

When they don’t have a drain on the main road or they made the road the low ground.

[Chris]

You would think that no one ever thought of building canals through the city to accommodate the occasional floods... Ohh wait!

[DJTheUnwanted]

All these people just blaming the city? Sure it's a craphole filled with some bad people, but hey when you have a few days warnings of possible flooding and you take the risk whose fault is it really? Do you complain of a hangover after a night of drinking too?

[lauraborabeee]

I had no power or cellphone reception from 12pm until 12am yesterday… none of the traffic lights worked people were crashing into each other it was crazy!!

[JimMacintosh]

This is what happens when you waste tax payer’s money on renaming places and woke causes vs spending on serious infrastructure

[skeetssaer]

I hope that you will agree and not put the wool over the situation. This is not relegated to Toronto or a engineering flaw. The water vapour has gotten so pervasive in the upper atmosphere that these events have been happening consistently for the last 10+ years around the World. We foolishly complain about a Carbon tax without seeing that there is nothing we can do to stop what we have started. What am I talking about? A couple years ago, in May a snowstorm hit Winnipeg. The Storm was so strong that it started to rotate, it was also so big that the top of the rotation turned it to snow and Winnipeg got 245 Cm of snow over a 4 day period. A new reflection that will become more common will be Hurricanes coming from Antarctica into the Caribbean Sea over Central America. It has mostly been rain to create mudslides over the last 20 years but Hurricanes have been and will become more of a feature. I know for a fact that I have watched the Weather Network and seen full rotation of Storms running across Canada. Just like how Hurricanes have just enough power to pummel the Mari times now. It could explain all the Volcanic activity. Hurricane Sandy hit Kitty Hawk and Manhattan at the same time. There was a circle in the sky a few months back. I spoke to my father about it, He was in Barbados and saw it too. Think about that. Water Vapour is the unspoken danger to us all and we keep going with our hubris. I remember coming back from Barbados a few years ago, the winds were blowing at 80 to 90 KM/H. We circled the same building 7 times, by the 4th time not a sound could be heard on the plane. When we came to land the pilot had the throttle open as we descended. If you have ever seen a mercantile market you would understand the Customs experience as 5 planes landed in that 5 minute Window and by the time I left the Airport it was 2:45 AM from a 11:45 arrival but it took 2 minutes to go through customs.

[plantsoverpills]

No way that a city like Toronto should have this problem.

[Eddyyc]

Quickly folks just pay more taxes and all of this will be better, rainbows and green fields

[franciskswong]

I remembers you! Hello Kim! Long time no see.! Glad to see you well!

[herschelwright]

Urban sprawl and climate change did this!