Stay Safe!

[genericmoniker]

With all the flooding going on, I'd just like to take a minute to wish everyone is safe and everyone's well-being in-tact.

[sudz]

Avoid: 427. DVP. Any "Underpass"

Don't count on the subway - Most cars stopped.

Also, the majority of sauga is without power - Traffic light means: 4 way stop. Most people are treating it as pure chaos.

[ace_master]

Best to stay off the roads all together if you can. Just because you change your driving habits to match the weather doesn't mean everyone around you will.

[peterm15]

Wow. Glad im in NLFD still. It's a little chilly but I haven't seen rain yet. Knock on wood.

[The Wolf]

Radar is showing a huge cell ready to run over KW. Gonna sit on the porch and watch the world die lol

[r4mi5awi]

Best to stay off the roads all together if you can. Just because you change your driving habits to match the weather doesn't mean everyone around you will.

Agreed, hearing sirens every 2-3 minutes. Backyard is getting flooded, never ever happened before. Heard a loud crack and boom, a big branch off my neighbors willow tree fell off. If it continues to rain the rest of the week, basement might be in jeopardy.

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/07/09/dy2y6yju.jpg

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/07/09/e8ynyty4.jpg

Think I'll invest in a raft

[asyed]

I was pulling weeds when the rain started and thought it was only a little rain so continued to pull weeds.....



then some lightning hit about 90 meters from where I was :whoa and went inside....



I hope it doesnt rain for long as these weeds need to be pulled before wednesday and I have alot of them. :(

[proDJtege]

WOW check out the photos here... http://www.blogto.com/city/2013/07/massive_rain_storm_hits_toronto_causing_flooding_a nd_power_outages/

[coriolis]

http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/5729/2xop.jpg


Jeez...

[leecheefoto]

I've been stuck in traffic for 2 hours to go to school and nobody is there so here comes another couple hours

[mazda_gurl]

http://images.scribblelive.com/2013/7/9/efd6dc0b-688d-4e40-b549-89c586487bf1_500.jpg

Mazda 3 Sighting :D

[ShibaYuki]

My girlfriend got off work, now shes stuck in Islington and Dixon. Her phone is now broken cause some jerk ran into a puddle really fast and she got splashed by the dirty water including her phone. I can't even call her, or text her. Last time I heard from her is 1 hour ago. I'm really worried for her. -_-"
She doesn't know how to get home. She's a lost puppy out there!

[Mr Wilson]

http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/5729/2xop.jpg


Jeez...

Only a California. Owner most likely thought this was a perfect occasion to right the wrong.

[leecheefoto]

4 hours later I'm still not home ..

[Kamikazee]

http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o96/fixxxer_11/1043988_10151580190599724_1880910396_n_zpsf8406a56 .jpg (http://s118.photobucket.com/user/fixxxer_11/media/1043988_10151580190599724_1880910396_n_zpsf8406a56 .jpg.html)

[sudz]

My buddy was on 427. He got off the first exit south bound after 401 Thankfully he's in a Honda element, so he was able to get through some of the flooding without wrecking his car. (its actually got a decent amount of ground clearance!)

[Kamikazee]

cant edit post here's one more pix

http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o96/fixxxer_11/530302_501081439972653_40137709_n_zps08dc46b7.jpg (http://s118.photobucket.com/user/fixxxer_11/media/530302_501081439972653_40137709_n_zps08dc46b7.jpg. html)

[gotak]

http://images.scribblelive.com/2013/7/9/efd6dc0b-688d-4e40-b549-89c586487bf1_500.jpg

Mazda 3 Sighting :D

Oh CBC they have that girl as well they said her car stalled. You guys know what that could mean... water in the cylinder likely = engine rebuild or new engine....

[SomeGuy]

http://www.thestar.com/photos/2013/07/08/heavy_rain_floods_hit_toronto.html

More pics of mazda 3 chicks...a blue second gen too.

[leecheefoto]

cant edit post here's one more pix

http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o96/fixxxer_11/530302_501081439972653_40137709_n_zps08dc46b7.jpg (http://s118.photobucket.com/user/fixxxer_11/media/530302_501081439972653_40137709_n_zps08dc46b7.jpg. html)



Ha ha 3 stooges ?

[Thrizzl3]

hope no one got stuck today...

also for people with CAI's hope you didn't go through any deep puddles.

[r4mi5awi]

Still in the dark here in Mississauga south. Settin the mood with them candles.

[Mazdy]

Finally power!

[sudz]

sorry dbl post.

[sudz]

Mazdy, do you live near medela? (my work?) had to shut down all the servers before I left - UPS's don't last that long.

[Mazdy]

Mazdy, do you live near medela? (my work?) had to shut down all the servers before I left - UPS's don't last that long.

Oh hey man...long time...

No I live by thomas/tenthline

[S.F.W.]

Left work at Bathurst and king at 5:30 via transit. Arrive home at 10:30pm.
Normally takes one hour.
Had no power until 12:30am .

[m3rk]

Holy shit... even though I didn't go through any major floods or high water roads, I'm glad I got a aem bypass valve for my cai... unless it's really high and everything is submerged.

[asyed]

good thing I didnt have any college classes in the summer or I might have gotten stuck and got my car damaged due to flooding in the highway 27 area.




Also had to go to toronto with cousin to go pickup his brother in his car. saw no flooding but alot of lights were out ( yorkdale was almost blacked out) and we had this one idiot with his high beams on right beside us :bang

[Pacman]

I want my power and AC!! Still out where i am in etobicoke. :(

Also, got some flooding in the basement :(

I hope my car is alright, I went through some high water today. I know my horn got wet as it sounds different. Hope all else is ok.

[r4mi5awi]

Power came back to GTA residents south of the QEW around 4 am this morning.

[Aitch]

Yesterday was one of those days I'm thankful I leave work at 4:15. Was on the bus home when the rain started. If I'd left an hour or two later I'd definitely have been stranded.

My wife walks 20 minutes home with the kid from daycare everyday. She got in the apartment about 3 minutes before the deluge began.

Very sorry for anyone that was stranded yesterday!

Oh and I decided to work from home today (instead of tomorrow as usual) to avoid any transit problems. Love my flexible workplace.

[Metal Wing]

Yesterday was one of those days I'm thankful I leave work at 4:15. Was on the bus home when the rain started. If I'd left an hour or two later I'd definitely have been stranded.

My wife walks 20 minutes home with the kid from daycare everyday. She got in the apartment about 3 minutes before the deluge began.

Very sorry for anyone that was stranded yesterday!

Oh and I decided to work from home today (instead of tomorrow as usual) to avoid any transit problems. Love my flexible workplace.

I would have worked from home today as well if not for the very important meeting (which I will be pissed if cancelled...)

I went through some fairly high water. Felt like at one point my car kind of dipped down into water all the way up to headlights. Parked - was a bit of foggy-steam. Opened the hood - all seemed fine (alas was some water drops here and there)

Drove to work fine today though. Last night was super boring for me =(

[omalak]

was caught on bayview extension just about 20 minutes after the rain started, at that point bayview already had water half way up my tires, i was losing my shit thinking i'm going to suck water. Put my flashers on and made it through. I think it's only after 6 that things got really bad!

Boggles my mind how GO Transit was continuing to run trains over pottery road, doesnt surprise me that it got stuck.

And why was there no official announcemnts from the city of Toronto???

[Metal Wing]

And why was there no official announcemnts from the city of Toronto???

Maybe they think if they don't announce it - no one will notice the floods, etc and it will all just go away? *shrug*

[Pacman]

Sigh still no power. Hopefully my fish don't die

[Chrisinski]

Can anyone tell me how brutal the 401 is today? Like is travel just stupid going through t.o?

[ShibaYuki]

Anyone know if the transit in Etobicoke is still running? At Kipling and Dixon?

[Aitch]

Can anyone tell me how brutal the 401 is today? Like is travel just stupid going through t.o?

Quick check of the MTO cameras (http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/traveller/trip/traffic_cameras.shtml) reveals that 401 is a bit backed up coming from the West (say around the 427) but most of the rest looks ok.

[Chrisinski]

Quick check of the MTO cameras (http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/traveller/trip/traffic_cameras.shtml) reveals that 401 is a bit backed up coming from the West (say around the 427) but most of the rest looks ok.

Never thought to check that. Thanks!
Just figured with the flooding and all it may be bad so I prefer to ask the people who live there.

[Aitch]

Never thought to check that. Thanks!
Just figured with the flooding and all it may be bad so I prefer to ask the people who live there.

Further investigation reveals it is an accident at Dixon road. 2 lanes closed (http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/traveller/trip/map.shtml?ll=43.696424,-79.459648&z=10). So nothing flood related.

Dammit, I need to do some real work.

[ShibaYuki]

Quick check of the MTO cameras (http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/traveller/trip/traffic_cameras.shtml) reveals that 401 is a bit backed up coming from the West (say around the 427) but most of the rest looks ok.

Wow. Thanks a lot. I'll be able to check up the traffic. I was just asking people that lives there. If the busses are cancelled, I'm gonna have to go and pick up my girlfriend early. Thanks again. =P

[6strings]

Just goes to show you how unprepared we are as a society.

[Chrisinski]

Just goes to show you how unprepared we are as a society.

+1

This will only get worse due to global warming. Once the world has a +2 degree increase everything will go haywire. I hope everyone learns from this and prepares for this to happen more frequintly through out the next few years.

[krimsalt]

I was at UTSC throughout the evening. It was decent amount of rain and no power went out. I heard that the city was in utter chaos and I thought to myself "What? It's only a bit of rain". Opened up Facebook and saw the plethora of posts of the city underwater. I was lucky where I was we had no power outage, and still internet

[pwdunmore]

The power goes out and the water rises... ohhh "global warming" ahhhemmm... I mean climate change... man up, society is full of unprepared people living close to water with luxury cars and no flooding protection. Why do you think insurance companies don't cover natural floods?!?! It's bloody common sense to me...

For those of us that are "lucky/smart (they go hand in hand)" you would live on higher ground and have a small pump + backup power.

The flooding on the roads was caused from clogged storm sewers being over burdened, I unclogged 2 them on my street by pulling off the leafs and twigs to get rid of huge puddles. Some people did this on the highway by wading through waist deep water to pull crap from the top too... so maybe people just need to be smarter and depend on themselves rather then expecting someone else to do something... bystander effect anyone? I have no idea why I see crews picking up garbage but not keeping the storm sewer covers clean.

The river swelling obviously can not be prevented as easily so the best way to stay safe is to stay away.

Hope everyone is safe and sound + this might teach people a lesson to be a little more ready for bad weather to happen... society is soft don't dependent on it.

[Jsquared]

Holy shit... even though I didn't go through any major floods or high water roads, I'm glad I got a aem bypass valve for my cai... unless it's really high and everything is submerged.

So happy I invested in the AEM bypass as well on the CAI. Hit a few puddles last night.

[ZeroChalk]

So happy I invested in the AEM bypass as well on the CAI. Hit a few puddles last night.

Don't worry you can wrap your CAI in this and all should be good..... :(


http://www.phpbb.cc/templates/images/helpful/hydro-shields-1.jpg

[trulankan]

Don't worry you can wrap your CAI in this and all should be good..... :(


http://www.phpbb.cc/templates/images/helpful/hydro-shields-1.jpg

or avoid it all completely and get an SRI lol less performance but i'd rather not have a dead engine

[r4mi5awi]

Just goes to show you how unprepared we are as a society.


+1

This will only get worse due to global warming. Once the world has a +2 degree increase everything will go haywire. I hope everyone learns from this and prepares for this to happen more frequintly through out the next few years.

This city can't even agree to build new and expand existing transit infrastructure, notice I didn't say afford.

How can you expect Toronto to have the fiscal responsibility for natural disaster contingencies.

[pwdunmore]

This city can't even agree to build new and expand existing transit infrastructure, notice I didn't say afford.

How can you expect Toronto to have the fiscal responsibility for natural disaster contingencies.

DING! I like this guy :)

[Tuscani01]

Got power back at 8:30 last night in Liberty Village and thought we had survived despite the flooding that occurred throughout the neighbourhood. This morning I got to my car, and the plaster, drywall and drywall tape all over the ceiling was hanging down, or on the ground. Luckily nothing above my spot, as it is entirely concrete.

Also lost power again at 11:30 this morning, and now Toronto Hydro says it will be out until tomorrow morning. Dreading my drive home and lack of a warm shower.

[S.F.W.]

Also lost power again at 11:30 this morning, and now Toronto Hydro says it will be out until tomorrow morning. Dreading my drive home and lack of a warm shower.
I work not far from the area , King & Niagara. We lost power around 11:30am, but got it back around 2pm.

[Proudfoot]

I had my car parked at the curb and saw the torrential rain flow around my wheels. I could see that it looked like water went up and over the plastic engine cover on the underside of the car and then seemed to come out of the front part of the car. As I watched, I thought 'shit, my new fogs will be water logged.'
It seems as though they were fine and lit up afterwards. I hear there is more rain coming though and it has put off my camping trip with my son.
http://i1147.photobucket.com/albums/o559/proudfoot4/Toronto-20130708-01227_zpsb7ba32c8.jpg (http://s1147.photobucket.com/user/proudfoot4/media/Toronto-20130708-01227_zpsb7ba32c8.jpg.html)

[Chrisinski]

Spray down any wet electrical with wd 40. It will remove all moisture.

[acrossthec]

I'm in Etobicoke at Kipling/Bloor, still didn't have any power this morning when I woke up, but it's back now. Feel sorry for the building next to me, it's less then 100m away and still doesn't have power back. Word has it the Subway is still down from Jane to Kipling and won't be back up until sometime tomorrow.

[rzapata]

Stay safe folks, make sure you get your emergency gear ready.

I hope your families are safe and the 3s/speed3s are ok. :)

[STeeLy]

Definitely stay safe, don't be idiotic and go near raging rivers like idiots in Calgary did. (I hear the Don is over flowing, how bad is it though?)

[krimsalt]

Apparently a sinkhole destroyed some segment of road in Mississauga

[iconicrocket]

TTC car crapped out 4 blocks from my house, had to walk in the rain.

lol. count me in as lucky on that day, seeing as other people had it worst.

[Slade]

I didn't want to make a whole new thread, but here is what we got in Burlington Friday evening.

I plan on speeding the video up into a 30-60sec clip to send to the weather network once I get the others converted.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eRxecvwT0Y


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bRYoGkgEnE

[cwp_sedan]

Yeah I drove through this from TO to Niagara on Friday. The lightning was incredible!