PHOTOS: Heavy rainfall strands motorists, knocks out power for thousands
Stalled car on Innes Road in Ottawa during a severe rain storm Thursday. Cars entered deep waters and didn’t come out the other side.Flooding along the Kichi Zibi Mikan road created havoc for vehicles and their drivers on Thursday.Cars got waterlogged, stuck and had to be abandoned along Halifax Drive Thursday afternoon as water rose up to the windshield on some before receding so people could retrieve their belongings.
A man tries to open the sewer grate to allow water to drain in Elmvale Acres during a rain storm that left flooding all over the city Thursday afternoon.Cars got waterlogged, stuck and had to be abandoned along Halifax Drive Thursday afternoon as water rose up to the windshield on some before receding so people could retrieve their belongings.
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