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It's been a really bad long weekend in my town... First some drunken gakkhead crashes a large dump truck into the Skyway bridge and closes the main route from the Niagara region into the GTA on Thursday evening, causing traffic chaos.
Yesterday, we got hit with 2 months worth of rain in about 4 hours! (that's more rain btw than the storm that flooded parts of Toronto last summer!)

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/onstorm-in-pictures-roads-turned-rivers--/33312/

Non-stop sirens all night long. Parts of one of the country's busiest highway were closed entirely. Some streets were completely submerged. Lots of people have flooded basements. Just a horrible.
Our backyard turned into a small lake, but lucky for us, the house itself is built on a small rise so the important parts stayed dry.

It was a good light show though - some really awesome looking lightning arcs & cloud formations. The hail stung slightly though...

Oof. What direction was the storm headed? We’ve been getting some intermittent storms around me, but nothing that bad. You get lake effect where you are?

<wanders off to check the weather and baton down>

I had a similar enough flood happen in my hometown 8 yrs ago. Good luck, hope you got some good supplies, now make some jiffy pop and watch the chaos!

 Nevelon wrote:
Oof. What direction was the storm headed? We’ve been getting some intermittent storms around me, but nothing that bad. You get lake effect where you are?

<wanders off to check the weather and baton down>

Yeah, Burlington sits right on the shoreline of Lake Ontario, so that helped fuel the storm. However it was the fact it started training over us - basically the system just sat over us while continuing to collect added moisture and continue pouring down...

Lucky for us the nearby supermarkets are just south & west of the main areas that flooded in the city's north end. Go barely a city block to the east though and you were wading through the water.


What's rather hilarious though - the work crews trying to repair the damage to the Skyway bridge got their Band-Aid fix in place and re-opened the main route to Toronto... only for the QEW to flood entirely about 1.5 hours later!
God literally doesn't want anyone taking the QEW from Burlington into Toronto for some reason!