The water rushed in, the lights went dark, the phones went down. Sirens echoed across the city as emergency calls suddenly tripled. Seniors were rafted to safety from deluged nursing homes; firefighters wore life jackets as they extracted people from cars.
Members of the Beauty of the Don Facebook group share photos of the flora and fauna that make the Don River Valley an oasis. But this week, the
Firefighters help a stranded motorist on the DVP on Tuesday.
People take pictures of a flooded Etienne Brule Park as the banks of the Humber River flooded the area in Toronto on Tuesday. The city rain gauge that saw the most rainfall, on the western border of Etobicoke, received 98 millimetres.
A pedestrian struggles to navigate the floodwaters at Lake Shore Blvd. W. at Rees St. in downtown Toronto on Tuesday.
A heavily flooded Don Valley Parkway after a deluge of rain on Tuesday.
A person makes their way through Union Station during a flood following heavy rain in Toronto on Tuesday.
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The flooding of the Don River and the nearby Don Valley Parkway is actually by design, and not something that will end any time soon.
