Toronto Flooding - NF

[woodenboater]

I'm glued to Accuweather's radar...scroll and zoom and see if your area wins the prize

 

http://www.accuweather.com/en/ca/ontario/weather-radar

[Sinker]

Wow.....not a drop here!

 

Take care folks!

 

S.

[woodenboater]

ha ha, someone hates the GTA lol

[Roy]

i'm 5 mins away from erin roy.. we're on high ground but its coming down good.

 

Thanks Raf, his house is on higher ground so they should be ok. How's your area Raf? I mean is there a chance of flooding?

[Christopheraaron]

had a feeling that would happen considering the flooding was bad at the highest hills in town today...

[dhickey]

Hey Roy its only the centre of the universe that's hit hard.

Other than that Angus/ Milton and Georgetown are on high ground for the most part.

East York is genneraly high ground as well.

Don..

[backbay]

Over 100 mm of rain in an hour at Pearson. Saw a report that there is concern that the banks of the Don River may collapse in Hogg's Hollow. (York Mills and Yonge).

[wallacio]

Some pretty incredible pictures here:

 

http://storify.com/blogto/toronto-weather-gets-wet-and-wild

[Raf]

Thanks Raf, his house is on higher ground so they should be ok. How's your area Raf? I mean is there a chance of flooding?

 

Not too concerned Roy, we're atop a hill... and the areas in the valleys are well drained. The upper Grand will be flowing and I could see some areas around Grand Valley have flooding issues.

Edited July 9, 2013 by Raf

[HTHM]

We are dry in Hamilton.

[DRIFTER_016]

There's a gnarly cell heading straight for TO.

It ain't gonna be over for a while.

[jedimaster]

It's raining now but not hard. I am at 401 and 404. Pretty crazy right now. If anyone here has flooded family pm me. I can make some room and squeeze some people in if need be.

[Christopheraaron]

That's very generous of you Jedi!

[ehg]

They are saying Pearson airport received 123 mm of rain which set a one day record rainfall.

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It mostly fell between 5-9 pm. Still light rain here.

[woodenboater]

radar shows the worst is over for now. Hope they get all the riders off the GO train safely.

[irishfield]

Thanks Jedi! Finally got ahold of wife and daughter. Taking 3+ hours for cell phone texts to go through and they were out eating. Not even a puddle on Lansdowne.. apartment dry and power is on. Hope it stays that way....

[Freshtrax]

Mud lines should be Pretty good on the north shore

[lew]

My daughter called last night and said it was nasty around her area too (QEW & 427) and the power was out and according to this morning's news there's still around 35,000 without power in the west end.

 

I'm up in the east Kawarthas and we only had about 15 minutes of very light rain last night, hardly enough to wet the ground.

[Roy]

Has the flooding subsided somewhat overnight? I have no news this morning from my people.

[fishindevil]

They are saying to call ahead Roy !!! Some transit is still not running the lakeshore west trains Richmond hill and the Milton lines are still down just heard all that on the news just now

[fishindevil]

And some bus routes are down too mostly along the lakeshore and bay view areas debris and cars abandoned have to be removed first !!!! Hope this helps

[Roy]

Thanks for the news, Bud.

[bigugli]

Much more of this flash flooding, and produce is going to get really expensive.

[misfish]

They say that more rain came down,then it did during hurricane Hazel.

[lew]

They say that more rain came down,then it did during hurricane Hazel.

 

I was in Toronto for Hazel and it was definitely nasty.