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Delta Dufus
Day'um.....the canukians are getting flooded....
TORONTO (AP) - A severe thunderstorm caused flash flooding in Toronto, cutting power to at least 300,000 in Canada's largest city, shutting down subways, forcing some people to cling to trees and leaving about 1,400 passengers stranded for hours on a commuter train filled with gushing water.
Canada's national weather service said some parts of the city had been drenched with more than 3.9 inches of rain in the Monday evening storm, easily beating the previous one-day rainfall record of 1.4 inches in 2008.
Toronto police and firefighters used small inflatable boats to rescue commuters from a 10-car, double-decker commuter train that stalled in floodwaters that reached the lower windows. Murky brown water spilled through the bottom floor of the carriages, sending passengers fleeing to the upper decks.
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A woman gets back into her flooded car on the Toronto Indy course on Lakeshore Boulevard in Toronto on Monday, July 8 2013. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Frank Gunn)
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