Toronto flooding: DVP reopens for morning commute after torrential rainfall

The Don Valley Parkway has reopened connected Wednesday greeting aft awesome rainfall caused a information of nan roadway to flood pinch cars trapped.

The DVP was closed from Bayview Avenue to nan Gardiner Expressway but reopened successful clip for nan Wednesday greeting commute.

More than a twelve group had to beryllium rescued from nan flooded area of nan DVP and Gerrard, Toronto Fire said.

Major flooding deed nan Toronto area Tuesday leaving tens of thousands of group mislaid powerfulness aft an aggravated large wind passed done portions of confederate Ontario.

Toronto Hydro said astatine nan highest astir 167,000 group had mislaid power. As of Wednesday morning, 3,300 customers were still successful nan dark.

A spokesperson for Toronto Hydro said its believed nan outages were owed to flooding astatine a Hydro One transmission station.

Lake Shore Boulevard besides flooded, prompting a closure from British Columbia Road to Strachan Avenue.

Toronto Pearson Airport said 97.8 mm fell location connected Tuesday, making it nan 5th rainiest time connected grounds and nan highest rainfall successful a azygous time since July 8, 2013.

“During a 10-minute span, we recorded 26 mm of rain,” a station from nan airdrome connected X said.

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Global News meteorologist Ross Hull said it appears to beryllium nan astir rainfall that has fallen successful a azygous time astatine Pearson Airport successful complete 10 years since that important flooding arena that occurred connected July 8, 2013, erstwhile 126 mm fell.

Hull said overmuch of confederate Ontario was deed by torrential downpours for nan 2nd consecutive time pinch an already saturated crushed from dense rainfall connected Monday.

With nan above-normal rainfall this month, nan sewers and drains couldn’t grip nan other water, Hull said.

“On Monday, areas for illustration London and Burlington sewage nan worst of it. However, arsenic different information of storms moved successful connected Tuesday, overmuch of nan GTA, including nan downtown, were flooded pinch much than a month’s worthy of rainfall successful conscionable a matter of hours pinch much than 100 mm falling successful immoderate spots,” he said.

“In immoderate cases, a month’s worthy successful conscionable 1 hour, pinch 50 mm of rainfall coming down.”