Paul and I returned home from our long weekend camping adventure on Monday. It was raining a bit when we pulled into the driveway but happily it stopped long enough for us to unload the car. Then the rain started . . .
I called my mother, who lives 10 km away, to let her know we had arrived home in one piece. She complained about how dry it had been and wished she would get some rain.
The rain that hit Burlington was localized and HARD.
In fact, the city received somewhere between 125 mm to 200 mm in a few hours.
The flooding was crazy!
(this is a four lane highway . . . closed off after it became a lake)
Friends of ours had a foot of sewage fill their basement.
EWWWWW
We were lucky. We live in a new housing development. New housing developments now have to be designed with storm drainage designed to bring water away from houses, into a network of diversion ditches, sewers, and ponds. I often whine about the ditch and culvert in the back of our yard since it takes up a lot of space and messes up the landscaping. At one point during the rain it was full of about 3 feet of water pouring non-stop down the culvert and rushing to the holding ponds. It did its job and the basement was dry as a bone.
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