Traycer
New Member
Did something newsworthy happen along Commissioners today? A CityTV reporter was on the bridge this afternoon at 6 pm. I thought maybe I had missed something about the north plug being removed.
max
Active Member
They just look for any excuse to park on the sidewalk
ChesterCopperpot
Senior Member
drum118
Superstar
You can see part of the north plug gone on Sunday that I shot.
They could had parked where the new Don Roadway connects to Commissioner or the close bike lanes at the east end of the bridge or a layover further to the west, but too lazy and thinking they are more important using the sidewalk.
hawc
Senior Member
Missing north plug section quickly becoming the most photographed thing on Urban Toronto!
rdaner
Senior Member
^That is until cladding starts going up on King West Condos! 
skycandy
Senior Member
Was curious in the aftermath of Beryl’s significant and widespread rainfall, how our new partially ‘unplugged’ river would look. First map is one reliable source for daily rainfall measurements. Significant 40 to 60 mm across the entire Don catchment basin seems to have had the (unsurprising) effect of raising water levels to perhaps the highest we’ve seen, and murky!
Digging continues on the south side of Lemon..
Digging continues on the south side of Lemon..
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unrealestate
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i could see the owl being slightly terrifying if you spot a glance through the trees at night walking home from rebel
reinventingthewheel
Active Member
I too was very curious about this, thanks for taking a look!
UtakataNoAnnex
Senior Member
Don't do acid before walking home from said place and you should be fine....
evandyk
Senior Member
Yes! This was a lot of rain in one day for Toronto, though obviously not the same impact as a real flash flood storm situation like in 2013 (I googled that to check the year, and we just missed the anniversary!).
Metroscapes
Active Member
The rain that fell was spread throughout the day, 2013 was a large intense dump. Definitely creates a different response and allows some of the vegetated areas to retain some of the water. It's still a significant response due to Toronto's urbanization and lack of stormwater quantity controls. Looks like a good monitoring opportunity for the floodways and overbanks!
afransen
Senior Member
I think in 2013, most of it fell in 1 or 2 hours. I remember the power went out at work so I went home. The roads were flooded (had to detour around a railway underpass), and sheets of water were shooting off the roof right over the gutters. Window wells for the basement were filled
unrealestate
Active Member
easier said than done : P
evandyk
Senior Member
Yeah, I remember it pretty vividly. Someone gave me a lift home because of the deluge, and we saw Robarts get hit by lightning while stopped at the light at Harbord and St. George. My wife had to walk her bike up Spadina because the edge of the street was a complete river. One of my colleagues was actually on that Go Train that got flooded in the Don valley.
'It felt like a sinking boat': Police rescue 1,400 passengers from waterlogged commuter GO train
A five year old girl and a seven-month pregnant woman were among passengers who were rescued after record breaking rain left portions of a GO train under water
nationalpost.com