UPDATED: Ottawa cleans up after heavy rain floods roads, properties ottnews
Environment Canada says between 31.5 mm and 100 mm of rain was fell across the city on Thursday, with the neighbourhoods of Carleton Heights and the Riverside area seeing near 100 mm of rain.
"This was huge; that's more than you get in the month of August and you had that in an hour-and-a-half."The storm hit Ottawa just before 11:30 a.m., with some areas seeing 50 to 70 mm of rain in 90 minutes. The Central Experimental Farm recorded a peak rainfall rate of 48.7 mm in one hour. The city reported the worst-hit areas for heavy rain and flooding included Merivale Road, Woodroffe Avenue, Fisher Avenue, Walkley and Heron roads, Industrial Road, St. Laurent Boulevard, Innes Road and Smyth Road, while flooding was reported in Vanier, Overbrook, the Glebe and Rockcliffe.
It also caused Ottawa's sewer system to back up, with Sabrina Oursin posting video on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, of water backing up from her toilet into her bathroom at an apartment in the Billings Bridge area. All roads reopened on Friday and city of Ottawa crews were conducting street sweeping in areas, according to Beth Gooding, Ottawa's Director of Public Safety Service.
Mayor Mark Sutcliffe was visiting with homeowners in Alta Vista to check on any damage after the flooding.
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