Flooding on the DVP

[Tropicana]

What's up with that? I woke once and saw a couple of flashes of lightening but heard no thunder. Maybe the thunder woke me.

I went right back to sleep. Next thing, the alarm went off and the radio is talking about the Don Valley being closed. I asumed it was an accident.

[Tropicana]

Oh my Gosh...I had NO idea!



Toronto’s Don Valley Parkway reopens after severe flooding causes commuter chaos



Northbound and southbound lanes of the Don Valley Parkway have reopened after severe flooding shut down a section of the major Toronto highway early Wednesday just before the start of the morning rush hour

Definitely must have been one of our famous blondes driving this one. Notice, no other cars in SIGHT!!

[Tropicana]

Man looks like I missed all the excitement. There was even flooding near me. My Mom is right.

She keeps telling me I am a heavy sleeper. Did anyone in the GTA get awakened by this storm?

Toronto's busy Don Valley Parkway has reopened after severe flooding overnight caused overwhelming water levels that closed the busy expressway to traffic for part of today, including during the morning rush hour.
Floodwaters are still covering some streets throughout the city. The worst flooding is near the Don River, which crested its banks and caused the Don Valley Parkway water overload.


The DVP is a major expressway that connects the Gardiner Expressway into the downtown area with Highway 401.


By 8 a.m. ET, water covering the expressway had started to recede, but it was coated in mud and debris in places.




Toronto police Staff Sgt. Bob Bowman told CBC News that police began closing the DVP one lane at a time early Wednesday until the water began covering the entire expressway.


“It’s the first time I’ve seen it in my 30 years that we actually had water cresting almost up to the jersey barrier of the Don Valley Parkway," said Bowman. "So we had to put in a closure until that water dissipates.”


Photos and video footage from CBC reporter Tony Smyth taken at the height of the flooding showed vehicles trying to move through rain-covered streets, with water as high as vehicle doors in some spots.


A total of 60 millimetres of rain had fallen in Toronto by 2 a.m. ET, but by 6 a.m., the downpour began to ease off and a heavy rainfall warning for the area was lifted.


GO Transit, which carries some 259,500 passengers on a typical weekday, suspended train service at Oriole and Old Cummer stations on the Richmond Hill line due to a flooded track.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2013/05/29/toronto-flooding-road-closures.html

[Tropicana]

These are from McLeans.

Dundas and DVP....Don River overflowed its banks.







Taken from Bloor Viaduct