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So we had a bit of UK weather Monday night. Actually 126mm deluge starting precisely at 5pm rush hour. Can't really describe it any better than this: http://www.weather.com/news/heavy-rain-causes-flash-flooding-across-toronto-20130708?hootPostID=9282d4eb407cfaa7fb62b030f20d699e
Make sure you scroll through the pics and also the tweets below the article; you'll see a Ferrari was drowned and written off amongst the many other vehicles.
Myself, I really dodged a bullet. I left work downtown in the 12C just as the rain began. On Corsas. I made it home literally as the flash flooding began. 5 minutes later I turned on the TV and there were cars floating down my street. Around the corner from my house, a girl was swept off the road in her car, smashed through a concrete culvert and landed in an overflowing stream. She luckily made it out alive.
In those pics, you might also see the Lakeshore West completely flooded, which is where the Indycar race will be this weekend. That is the route I take home every single day, except this last Monday; reason being that we had a preview of this weather about a month ago one night when I was in my RS4 and I remembered how the road, penned in by the temporary walls for the race, had flooded, albeit much more mildly. Had I not experienced that and decided on a different route home Monday, I most certainly would have been stuck with those other cars and would have lost the Mac. Sobering.
My house is okay, only suffered a prolonged power outage. However, thousands of homes were flooded. We were really fortunate.
I can also report that the Corsas were amazing. Obviously I was driving with extreme care, but they never hydroplaned, even crossing standing water and every imaginable wet surface condition you can fathom within a single drive. I was shocked, really, at how well they did. I was waiting for any indication of incapability and I was ready to pull over and park it on high ground. But it never came.
Make sure you scroll through the pics and also the tweets below the article; you'll see a Ferrari was drowned and written off amongst the many other vehicles.
Myself, I really dodged a bullet. I left work downtown in the 12C just as the rain began. On Corsas. I made it home literally as the flash flooding began. 5 minutes later I turned on the TV and there were cars floating down my street. Around the corner from my house, a girl was swept off the road in her car, smashed through a concrete culvert and landed in an overflowing stream. She luckily made it out alive.
In those pics, you might also see the Lakeshore West completely flooded, which is where the Indycar race will be this weekend. That is the route I take home every single day, except this last Monday; reason being that we had a preview of this weather about a month ago one night when I was in my RS4 and I remembered how the road, penned in by the temporary walls for the race, had flooded, albeit much more mildly. Had I not experienced that and decided on a different route home Monday, I most certainly would have been stuck with those other cars and would have lost the Mac. Sobering.
My house is okay, only suffered a prolonged power outage. However, thousands of homes were flooded. We were really fortunate.
I can also report that the Corsas were amazing. Obviously I was driving with extreme care, but they never hydroplaned, even crossing standing water and every imaginable wet surface condition you can fathom within a single drive. I was shocked, really, at how well they did. I was waiting for any indication of incapability and I was ready to pull over and park it on high ground. But it never came.
