Anyone caught out in this storm?

It's not that expensive to improve the drainage systems rather than replace the roads.
Cairns gets 2 meters of rain a year but rarely floods. Hell we got 2m in one cyclone two years back ....we did flood then tho
Toronto gets an average annual precipitation of about 831 millimeters (32.7 inches), which includes both rain and melted snow.
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and floods every time in the same places. :sneaky:
 
MacDoc said:
It's not that expensive to improve the drainage systems rather than replace the roads.
Cairns gets 2 meters of rain a year but rarely floods. Hell we got 2m in one cyclone two years back ....we did flood then tho

and floods every time in the same places. :sneaky:
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Toronto's growth in non-permeable surface over the last 20+ years has led to the overwhelmed system they suffer through now when a powerful rain event occurs. To improve the system would require billions of dollars and years of invasive construction on streets and in public spaces, plus a dramatic re-think and change in regulations for construction raising costs for developers. Is short, there's no appetite to do any of this at any level.

They just trot out the phrase, "storm of the century" to ease their worry, while ignoring that the last one occurred about 10 years ago. Remember the drowned exotic sports car owned by a prominent lawyer featured on newscasts?
 
I was in the Kennedy/401 area and they got hit pretty hard with a few intersections flooding and hail. One of my customers owned a large,older commercial building nearby southeast of Woodbine and Steeles, they had problems with flooding in the area.The city bought it from them, knocked down the building and created some kind of drainage/flood plain for the area about 3 years ago.
 
xrljoel said:
Toronto's growth in non-permeable surface over the last 20+ years has led to the overwhelmed system
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Yup. Mississauga used this as an excuse after the last big storm for a new tax - "storm water charge". I don't see how the $220 extra I get charged is going to help by much, but I guess that's what they think they can get away with before causing an uprising. What they really need to do is charge the developers for each new development to account for storm water drainage, and for all I know they probably do and are double-dipping.
 
xrljoel said:
Toronto's growth in non-permeable surface over the last 20+ years has led to the overwhelmed system they suffer through now when a powerful rain event occurs. To improve the system would require billions of dollars and years of invasive construction on streets and in public spaces, plus a dramatic re-think and change in regulations for construction raising costs for developers. Is short, there's no appetite to do any of this at any level.

They just trot out the phrase, "storm of the century" to ease their worry, while ignoring that the last one occurred about 10 years ago. Remember the drowned exotic sports car owned by a prominent lawyer featured on newscasts?
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That was Howard Levitt driving his Ferrari California on Lower Simcoe by the Gardiner in `13. For Sale...silver Ferrari, one owner, low klicks, garaged. Only driven in the rain once. :p
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