Yesterday's storm in Ontario caused flash flooding. Here are the pictures from CP24. I recognize many of the streets in the pictures - particularly the underpass on King Street in the Liberty Village section - full of water.
Etobicoke was hit and I looked to find out if our street Orchard Crescent was flooded. It backed onto Mimico Creek which was a source of flooding in Hurricane Hazel and then a serious one in 2013 - two years after we moved.
Specific questions like this seem hard to answer. News media cover what is most dramatic and show-worthy. Like the skyline above over Toronto, or the car in the flooded highway ramp close to our old neighbourhood in Toronto. There are pictures of GO Trains in water and flooded subway cars flooded with people sitting in their seats. There's dramatic coverage at the Toronto Star site. This was a couple trapped in an elevator with water rising.
This wasn't a major flood like Hurricane Hazel in which 81 people killed in that surprise flood and much work was done on storm water management afterwards, but it is hard to win with water. Anyone with a pond knows this story.
And our picture of the day is a Grimsby garden that is noteworthy. Is it the intense plantings of flowers and shrubs, filling every single space? No, it is the artificial turf. Once you look at it, you realize it is too perfect to be living grass. It looks like one of the premium brands - Namgrass Serenity Artificial Grass. I can't imagine there actually is serenity - you must sweep and vacuum it to keep it grass-like. That would likely have to happen every day.
