City of Burlington under elevated state of emergency amid flooding

[@Intel8Agent]

Mold damage is the worst

[@johnmartlew5897]

I grew up in Stoney Creek in the 50-60’s. I can imagine the creek along Cherrywood Drive, the street I lived on. Omg it was a frightening torrent in spring thaw. Stay safe everyone.

[@o2kala649]

Yes people clear debris off your catch basins - the city does not do that..

[@Ingrid-sb6my]

The spoiled brats of Canadump are too precious to do that.

[@tonyfulford3175]

Didn't the same thing happen a few years ago ? I remember a heavy rainfall causing lots of flooding in Burlington. Possibly 4 or 5 years ago ? The city needs to get their act together.

[@chachifeere]

Ten years ago. And city was suppose to fix the issue

[@truantray]

Well, we let development go ahead in North Burlington paving over wetlands and that water has to go somewhere. We have had hurricane rains in the past, but fields and wetlands now row housing and strip mall parking lots are gone. Who pays for this? We all do with insurance premiums, assuming these areas will even be able to buy flood insurance in the future. And taxes will go way up to fund sewer infrastructure developers avoided.

[@alias19]

This area was built in the 80s. When do you claim it was ever “wetlands”?

[@HighSierra1500]

I feel for these people! They are alive and their possessions can be replaced. However, Miller Waste Systems isn't going to be pleased with the impassible roads and the resulting garbage loads!

[@michaelpjeffries1521]

Expect the new normal, when governments pave & develop greenbelts which were created with purpose. Unlike the premiere.

[@MusicAsWeMakeIt]

Sadly, most home insurance does not cover flooding over land.

[@tesselaynes5428]

so I guess the city needs to check their sewer system and why it didnt handle the water.

[@chachifeere]

They said they were doing this ten years ago

[@MeMe-bs3tc]

Does home insurance cover this type of damage?

[@kasiamay9586]

No. Flood is excluded.

[@GoofieNewfie69]

Great job, build on low lying land in a flood plain

[@GreatOvation]

Waterfront property is usually in demand 😮

[@AlexandreLemelin]

I thought kayaking down the street would be an opportunity of a lifetime. By the way, that's me kayaking

[@chachifeere]

They were suppose to fix this problem ten years ago when we had that big flood

[@truantray]

They did. But in those ten years hundreds of acres of fields and wetlands in North Burlington got developed and paved over. That water has to end up in the lake one way or another. Rampant development for tax revenue is a poor business model for the city. The problem will only get worse now that hurricane season is two months earlier.

[@chachifeere]

@@truantray yes but the water was coming up from The sewers

[@chachifeere]

The Thomas Alton development has been there for over ten years. There’s been more development in north Oakville than Burlington

[@joannwolf4980]

Welcome to Houston world. Now you know.

[@StuntDonk]

Don't ya wish they had Drone Delivery,don't ya

[@Cal99ers]

I n the 60s the creeks always overflowed during heavy rains like this. People probably don't know their house is right next door to one of those creeks that the city buried.

[@k.s.333]

This happened in Burlington 10 - 15 years ago, a very narrow band of rain basically funneled something like 200 mm of rain within a few hours.

[@Cal99ers]

@@k.s.333 today people in Burlington don't realize how many buried creeks run from the escarpment, Mt Neno to Lake Ontario. Today overflowing creeks means many weeping tiles can't handle that much water.

[@chachifeere]

10 years ago

[@JohnEdmond-nz2lm]

The age of Aquarius

[@JSRTales]

for one small rain burst 😮😮

[@tomato-v8x]

A month’s worth of rain in 3 hours, “small” rain burst indeed.

[@_Julia.K_]

I am a Burlington resident, and that was the heaviest rainfall I've ever seen. It was more like waterfall than rainfall

[@Doggo954]

I mean the infrastructure needs to be fixed in so many places like why do we pay all these taxes but the planning is so bad.

[@Gryphyn3]

Maybe if these cities stopped their frivilous spending on pet projects and giving themselves raises, and UPDATE THE INFRASTRUCTURE!!! Never seen anything like this? IT HAPPENS EVERY TIME IT RAINS!!! Such bad journalism!!

[@bobcaygeon6799]

It looks like there might be a connection with that area (Cavendish) and a berm from the neighbouring 407 ETR highway that did not hold up enough for a catchment basin that THEY own. I agree. As a journalist, with today’s access to info, I’m disappointed she didn’t mention this.

[@AlexandreLemelin]

It actually doesn't... I was the one kayaking on this video and I can tell you this has never happened to our area.

[@AlexandreLemelin]

@@bobcaygeon6799 that information was known to them, giving away too much information before insurance comes in is detrimental to home owners

[@janet8034]

This is what Texas goes through with the hurricanes.

[@adamhawley2654]

couldn't be geoengineering or climate change at all, nothing to see there.

[@RajeshKumar-jy7on]

This is because of the high real estate prices cursing 🤬

[@hackman1616]

Get Trudeau out there with the sand bags

[@joannezaras2688]

Ford?

[@misternobodysixtynine]

Chow?

[@johnnolan5579]

@@misternobodysixtynine Chow is not the mayor of Burlington.

[@pavelzmarlik402]

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