Monday July 8th - careful out there

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Wow... I'm at Bathurst and 7 and although it did rain quite a bit we were never without power. Be safe out there.

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Holy cow I can't believe how much it rained... This is such a crappy summer... there have been like 7 or 8 nice days in the last 2 months.
 
Type17 said:
Holy cow I can't believe how much it rained... This is such a crappy summer... there have been like 7 or 8 nice days in the last 2 months.
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I know im pretty ****** off about this summer...

Gonna really need to go away on vacation now at the end of the year
 
Reminder, take it easy for the next few days as the roads will be dirty and muddy in some areas.
 
It rained lightly in Niagara for about 5 minutes. I barely heard it.
I feel sorry for those who are, and will be affected by this in the next few days. :|

It seems Mother Earth is getting tired of our **** lately.
 
I don't know what's worse, the torrential downpours or all the humid smoggy days that feel like your riding around stuff up some fat ****'s *******. Bleah!
 
Kinda upset I missed this epic rain. Made a few calls to Toronto around 7pm from Montreal. Everyone was freaking out about the rain, dry and clear skies there. Didn't hit anything until just west of Cobourg past 12, even then it was just a small shower
 
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I rode home in it at 5:30 and was close to being like the guy in that pic. Was riding my cruiser with a halfy helmet on and regular sunglasses, couldn't see a thing, luckily i didn't have far to go, had to keep pulling glasses down and rubbing my eyes.. made it home safe, was lucky!
 
we gots drownded.....

By 10 p.m., an unofficial one-day record of 123 millimetres of rain had fallen at Pearson, exceeding the 121.4 millimetres that fell during Hurricane Hazel on Oct. 15, 1954.
To put that in perspective, the city gets an average of 74.4 millimetres during the month of July. Overwhelmed, the Don River breached its banks on its lower stretches, spilling muddy water onto the parkway for the second time this season. Downtown near the Rogers Centre, a manhole cover vibrated and sprayed water like a crazed garden sprinkler as the pressure built up underneath. Another manhole nearby turned into a geyser.

Environment Canada meteorologist Mark Seifert says that two storms hit the city in short succession. Coming in from the northwest, they were sluggish giants -- not particularly violent, but heavy and slow. Because they took so long to traverse the city, they dumped an unusual amount of rain. And in an urban environment such as ours, covered in concrete and asphalt, "the rain really has no place to go."
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/this-was-no-ordinary-july-cloudburst/article13084354/
 
I laughed when I saw the 3 cars on the DVP, not because they were stranded, but if you look at other pics it was just one car at first. I'm laughing at the two idiots who decided to go for it despite seeing the one car almost up to the windows in water.
 
Joe250 said:
I laughed when I saw the 3 cars on the DVP, not because they were stranded, but if you look at other pics it was just one car at first. I'm laughing at the two idiots who decided to go for it despite seeing the one car almost up to the windows in water.
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I waited till 10 PM before trying to ride home in pitch black. Reving my bike coming to every intersection warning everyone bike is coming thru. Loud pipes does safe lives. Lol
 
yammyr6 said:
I know im pretty ****** off about this summer...

Gonna really need to go away on vacation now at the end of the year
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+1 After such a **** winter to be hit with this crappy summer I don't know how ppl can take it. I'm lucky that I can travel extensively, but don't know what I would do otherwise. Probably contemplate moving somewhere else.
 
rorider said:
+1 After such a **** winter to be hit with this crappy summer I don't know how ppl can take it. I'm lucky that I can travel extensively, but don't know what I would do otherwise. Probably contemplate moving somewhere else.
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This summer isn't too bad imo

I've still managed to squeeze in 4-5 days, on average, of riding per week.

Last summer was amazing though, rode every single day from April 7th all the way till I sold my bike in October.
 
By 10 p.m., an unofficial one-day record of 123 millimetres of rain had fallen at Pearson, exceeding the 121.4 millimetres that fell during Hurricane Hazel on Oct. 15, 1954.
To put that in perspective, the city gets an average of 74.4 millimetres during the month of July. Overwhelmed, the Don River breached its banks on its lower stretches, spilling muddy water onto the parkway for the second time this season. Downtown near the Rogers Centre, a manhole cover vibrated and sprayed water like a crazed garden sprinkler as the pressure built up underneath. Another manhole nearby turned into a geyser.
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123 mm of rain is a lot in 24 hours. It may be a record for Pearson, but it isn't for Toronto. There has been more rain in TO over a shorter period of time, and not long ago. Some people have a short memory. On august 19, 2005 TO got 103 mm of rain in just over 1 hour. Remember that? Smaller neighbourhoods got more. Yonge and Steeles got 175 mm of rain in one hour that day.

http://jane-finch.com/pictures/flood2005.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Ontario_Tornado_Outbreak_of_2005
http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2009/08/19/10509381-sun.html


I'd say TO needs to do something ajor to its infrastructure to avoid flooding during these high rain events because they seem to be happening with some more regularity now. Maybe not annually, but history is showing a once-a-decade frequency. With massive associated costs because of the flooding.




For a truly crazy rain event, look to the the Calgary flooding recently. TO has nothing on that Calgary event. Calgary received 250 mm of rain (180 mm in 16 hours). And the mountains (e.g., k country) which discharge towards Calgary got over 300 mm of rain (a few spots at 320 mm). That puts the Calgary flooding event into perspective. Crazy stuff.
 
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