It’s going to take hours for the Don Valley Parkway to be cleared after heavy rainfall flooded the Greater Toronto Area with almost 100 millimetres of rain on Tuesday, according to the city.
A weather system that brought record-breaking rainfall to Toronto and neighbouring areas may have passed, but residents are left dealing with the aftermath as highways and roads remain flooded, hundreds of thousands are still without power, and public transit services are impacted.
While subway service has resumed at Union Station, Line 1 trains are now bypassing Yorkdale and Lawrence West stations due to power failure. The TTC says shuttle buses are running between Wilson and Eglinton West stations.Subway service remains suspended on Line 2 between Islington and Jane stations due to a power failure. Shuttle buses are also running.
A rainfall warning is in effect for Hamilton as another round of thunderstorms is expected to arrive. “I ended up just in that piece of highway between the flooded water and Bayview-Bloor, waiting,” he said. McGinn had to sit in his car for an hour before police came and told drivers to reverse back out.The federal agency says meteorologists are tracking a severe thunderstorm near St. George that can produce very strong wind gusts.Onlookers are gathering along DVP overpasses at Dundas and Gerarrd streets to have a look and snap photos of the flooded highway below.
The first arrived around 8:45 a.m. and it was followed by two more, for a total of three over three hours.
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