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Idiots. "Is the engine still running???" NO kill switch!! Wakum life jackets designed for 23mph wakeboarders!! Boat blewout 20 times before??? And he didn't think changing the setup was a good idea?? Pair a freakin MORONS. Oh, hi everyone. ?

I feel for all the people that are looking at there homes and the damage that it has caused by flooding. Unfortunately its a price you have to pay to live by water. Growing up on Lake Huron 30 years ago I can remember when cottages along the water got wiped out because the ice and water rose so much. As the years went on the water dropped, and dropped... Everyone remember the -Stop the Drop- campaign, blame Lake St Clair dredging. So, all this water was gone.. so hey build cottages and houses back close to the water for the view... put a nice big deck close to the beach. Last high water mark most of it was wiped out again. When you do the building plan they only require drainage based on 100 year event. They should just change that to .. your living by water its going to flood at some point.

Seemed like a decent boat, you must have easy money to think losing it was worth taking a chance on losing it?

Totally insane on a public waterway. Anything over possibly 80 kph or 50 mph should not be allowed on a public waterway only on a closed course racetrack. Same as our roadways, want to race, take it to a track. edit: same with snowmobiles

Water levels over in my corner of the Kawarthas haven't really been too bad until about a week ago but now they're starting to rise pretty fast. The water flowing thru the dams at Burleigh Falls, Young's Point & Lakefield is going very fast now and the Otonabee River is looking like the Lower Niagara. I went down to Youngs Point today and took a couple pictures but naturally they don't show what it's actually like but to take this 1st picture I was standing on a bridge and could actually feel it vibrating with all the water rushing under it. This is the Youngs Point lock and you can see the water is about 5" above the concrete wall where boats get tied up so probably at least 2' higher than normal. The barge has been in the lock all winter after doing some work in the fall but if the water rises much more it'll be sitting on the concrete. Haven't seen any homes in any real danger yet but the water is definitely starting to creep over some lawns and it sounds like we're all in for another deluge over the next few days.

A report on CBC news this morning talked of a First Nations community on the Albany River in northern Ontario that has had to be evacuated each and every year for the past 17 years. Their Chief said that they have been requesting that the entire community be relocated to another area for years. The cost to the taxpayers has been 15 to 20 million dollars per year for damages and temporary lodging for an entire town. The definition of insanity comes to mind.

DAYUM!!! Surprised they had no injuries.

You actually have to submerge them to soak the paper type bobbin before they will inflate. A little dampness probably won't do it. Rain falling from above won't do it either.

Says the Sens and Habs fans. LOL you guys kill me.

First I have to say that those guys had someone watching their backs otherwise they should be dead. Now I'll say they are idiots and deserved to lose the boat. The dump truck incident happened regularly at the plant. Drivers would leave the box up and drive away. Once a guy hit a high pressure natural gas and oxygen line and split them in half. That was fun. I suggested a limit switch be installed so when a driver puts his rig in drive with the box up a device would protrude from under his seat and insert into an area of the body where nothing should be inserted. They won't do it again. Some may recall a few years ago when a driver hit the upper span of the Skyway Bridge in Hamilton with the box up doing 100K. Shut the bridge down for over a week. Another idiot.

Watching the Jackets play i doubt the leafs would've been able to withstand the punishment alone. Theyre gonna need more than just a couple of defencemen and Doobass is the wrong guy job the job cause intangibles dont chart on a graph.

That will buff right out.

A comment like "we can laugh about it" tells me everything I need to know.

just cuz you can, doesn't mean you should. definitely darwin candidates.

I'm dating myself but I remember the early 80's when the pro BASS circuit was limited to 150 horse.

Almost Darwin, almost!

Yeah once you hit 70 miles an hour things can go bad real quick anything over that is just crazy

Too fast for me.....

We have some local areas along the Lake Erie tributaries that seem to flood every couple of years, horror and tragedy stories on the news about the home losses and such, but they keep on allowing them to rebuild there. It's not like those areas are unknown, or the risks and dangers of living or building there? Flood me once? shame on you! flood me repeatedly? shame on me?

Senkos are more then heavy enough to easily use with a baitcast setup.

I cannot imagine choosing a rod any other way than going into a store with a good selection and holding the rod in my hand and asking to pair it with a reel they have in store, either the same as the one I intend to use or similar, but Fenwick, St.croix and Shimano rods have always been a good choice for me.

I bet he runs for cover in a lightning storm

I got a call from an old friend that moved from Hamilton to the Ottawa River ( Westmeath) after he retired. His wife and he had to evacuate their riverside home on Lake Coulonge that they built 4 years ago. The basement is full of water and the water and ice is 1/2 way up their 1st floor. He says it's a wright off. We live on the waters edge on Lake Erie. We haven't had a beach for the past 7 years. The water is even higher this spring as it is right to the breakwall where we once had 25 feet of sandy beach. That has caused severe erosion all along the lake. I paid $3500.00 last year to repair the armour rock breakwall as the fall storms of 017' undermined the hill behind the breakwall and the erosion was only 15 feet from our deck. That makes for some sleepless nights.