Holy Flooding - Toronto under water

[zinfamous]

I just figured that's what Canada always looked like. :|

you're confusing Canada with Russia, where it is perpetually snowing.

 

[rh71]

I just figured that's what Canada always looked like. :|

yup, after all the igloos melt, that's what happens.

 

[dank69]

yup, after all the igloos melt, that's what happens.

That's what I figured. All that snow has to go somewhere during the two weeks of summer.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Usually summer passes by fast enough that not much snow has a chance to melt. It actually makes the buildings stronger as the slight surface melt then turns to ice.

 

[Slew Foot]

When it freezes over in a month itll be time for the worlds largest curling game, eh

 

[BoomerD]

Wait...the frozen north has liquid water?

That's one of the signs of life the scientists are always talking about. Maybe Canada will be next for exploration.

 

[dennilfloss]

Heard they got 90mm of rain in one hour and it overwhelmed the drainage system.

 

[sdifox]

Driving last night was just hell. Power outage in lots of places so no traffic light, coupled with road closures due to flooding and trapped rush hour traffic, and traffic hell was born.

126mm of rain...worse than Hurricane Hazel back in 1954.

 

[Eug]

Pix, including an underwater Ferrari:

Total rain by 10 pm was about 0.125 metres.

 

[sdifox]

Pix, including an underwater Ferrari:

Total rain by 10 pm was about 1.25 metres.

… 1.25 meters would be biblical. It was 0.125m

 

[Jodell88]

Total rain by 10 pm was about 1.25 metres.

If this was true the water would be half-way up the buildings.

 

[silverpig]

… 1.25 meters would be biblical. It was 0.125m

Yup. This amount of rain isn't bad if you're in a high zone - it just rolls downhill. Down by the lake and in the valleys is where you get all the accumulation and it could raise the water level above the street by 1.25m

I wonder how high the Humber river got. I know there's a line in all the valleys here where no one is allowed to build below because it's the flood line from hurricane Hazel. Everything below the line got wiped out by the flood. I wonder if it got as high.

 

[Eug]

Yeah, my bad. 0.125 metres.

P.S. Everything looks fine today, although the lawns and gardens are pretty waterlogged, and it's humid. On the news, they said the storm drain water levels are basically back to normal already.

My basement is dry as a bone, probably for two reasons:

1. We have a backflow preventer valve in our sewer pipe.

2. Back in 2011 we redid the slab. It was about 2-4" of cement sitting right on the soil, in an area known for lots of underground rivers, with several of my neighbours getting basement flooding from time to time. (These homes were originally built in the 1950s.) So we dug down one foot, put in 6 inches of crushed rock fill for drainage, and 6 inches of cement.

 

[Imp]

Pix, including an underwater Ferrari:

Total rain by 10 pm was about 0.125 metres.

Story I heard on the news was that one guy already got his car stuck under that bridge going in the opposite direction. He sees Ferrari coming and tries to wave him off. The Ferrari driver then continues on in his expensive and low riding vehicle........................

 

[Eug]

How much is that car worth?

 

[Imp]

News and random comments said $300k. News showed it live and rear lights were still flashing.

 

[silverpig]

How much is that car worth?

Before? About tree-fiddy. $350k

Now? About tree-fiddy. $3.50

 

[Imp]

There's a youtube video about that Ferrari. Google "toronto flood ferrari idiot".

At work, so can't see if it's during or after.

 

[MontyAC]

The guy is stupid driving that into the tunnel. He's probably so rich, he'll just buy another one.

 

[Eug]

Before? About tree-fiddy. $350k

Now? About tree-fiddy. $3.50

I'll pay 100X that for it: tree-fiddy. $350.

There's a youtube video about that Ferrari. Google "toronto flood ferrari idiot".

At work, so can't see if it's during or after.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BCDHcJjeGI

I literally just witnessed some idiot drive his ferrari directly into a flooded underpass on simcoe stree in Downtown Toronto! Everyone up the street was pulling U-Turns and then out of nowhere this guy decides to attempt the impossible and thrust his Ferrari into the water at like 60 KMPH! the thing stalled almost instantly and he had to swim out through shit-filled sewer water because the water was rising fast!

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I wondered why there were no other cars around. Now I know. Almost everyone else was smart enough to stop well away from the flooding for that underpass. Meanwhile this guy tries to go through it, even when an unfortunate guy with a flooded stuck truck on the other side of the road was waving him down.

 

[mmntech]

Driving into deep water is a good way to fry your electrical and damage your engine. The Ferrari is just one example of this. Saw a lot of people trying the same stunt. In a hurry to go nowhere.

Power is still out to about 50k people in the city. I guess surges from all the AC units kicking in is knocking power out as soon as the feed gets restored. We dodged a bullet where I live, in the far west end. It rained but nowhere near as hard as it did in the city.

I pulled some footage from my dash cam showing lightning and power out in Mississauga. My internet has been really flaky over the past week so I couldn't upload it this morning. Will do it when I get home.

 

[Iron Woode]

we didn't get any where near that much rain. It did rain for nearly an hour here.

 

[Imp]

Seriously... Even if insurance covers it, how is it a good idea to wreck a >$10k item and have to walk/bus/taxi/tow truck home in order to save a few hours? F**king idiots now have to go all the way through the insurance process and go shopping for a new car, do all the registrations, etc. "I'm so god damn important"....

 

[mmntech]

Seriously... Even if insurance covers it, how is it a good idea to wreck a >$10k item and have to walk/bus/taxi/tow truck home in order to save a few hours? F**king idiots now have to go all the way through the insurance process and go shopping for a new car, do all the registrations, etc. "I'm so god damn important"....

Saw at least three cars trapped on the DVP under about 4ft of water. Always floods at Dundas because all the storm water comes down the Don River and the banks aren't that high as you approach the lake. Scores more tried to go under bridges that were flooded. You can see the water is 4 or 5ft deep. Your car isn't a submarine. What did they think would happen.

 

[Eug]

My backyard patio was flooded, but that's a common occurence after a big rain, and it usually drains in about 20 mins or less. I'm on pretty sandy soil. That was about it for us.

The rain intensity was dramatic though. I've only encountered rain like that before in the tropics.

P.S. I think I've used my sprinkler system maybe once this entire year. Very wet spring and summer so far. In fact, I've got mushroom growing in my lawn now, dammit. The good news though is that I don't have a tree-fiddy k $ junker car.

P.P.S. We are indirectly paying for the insurance on those submerged cars.