Major highway under water, cars stranded | Toronto's flooded Don Valley Parkway

This is what the flooded Don Valley Parkway looked like from CP24's chopper on Tuesday afternoon after heavy rain hit Toronto and caused widespread flooding.
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[@patientzero291]

That $600k to change the name from dundas square to sankofa square could've been used to improve the drainage problem in toronto.

[@Mcode11Youtube]

yep, the government is silly often

[@DTLification]

why they change the name?

[@JohnnieWalker._]

Why does it cost $600k to change the name n where does that even go ?

[@tdotc]

@@JohnnieWalker._ pockets

[@kmm1863]

they are saying 600k now. I bet it will cost 2 million overall. Dundas name is everywhere

[@joeshittheragman6252]

"You're still coming into work right?"

[@cameronkinghan7685]

Really dude

[@CheekyBird790]

Pink slips for everyone lol

[@botgxld6807]

Happened to me in the winter, got in an accident and they called me a tow

[@MisterMister5893]

lol I had a manager like that. What a poop show the twas.

[@georgedavidson1221]

Catch basins are plugged. No maintanence

[@Ryan-sn2bk]

So your telling me renaming a street is the highest priority, but putting up a water retaining wall isn’t…. What a joke!

[@robotron26]

What the hell are you talking about, they are spending billions on the waterfront and river Olivia has been mayor for a year lol, and she is doing plenty

[@jasonm519]

@@robotron26 Yes, she's done plenty of useless stuff.

[@mitcho5327]

Funny how we are one of the largest cities in the world, have the highest tax but still fail to address our infrastructure. LOL what a joke.

[@jasonm519]

Agree with everything except Toronto being one of the largest cities. Check your facts, Toronto is quite a small city in terms of population and size.

[@jody-ne7xs]

​@@jasonm519and they still have crappy infrastructure 🤣🤣🤣

[@wrendavey]

I hope everyone is okay

[@RHYGAR1]

Has this Area ever Flooded Before? I bet it has 100 Times...

[@CheekyBird790]

It has! the last time that I remember this was in 2013, wasn't quite as bad as today though.

[@robotron26]

How insightful of you Obviously it has flooded before, the question is about frequency and the speed it floods now Which is going up

[@b21raider27]

A month’s worth of rain in a couple of hours.

[@AK-ri7rn]

And every new existing lot the city continues to throw up 70 story buildings

[@DanSmith-qx4nl]

70 story buildings are inhumane!

[@theastuteangler]

looks like Dynacare might be hiring

[@tomlarocque4720]

AHAHHAHA :)

[@lucafigueiredo6005]

😂

[@MisterMister5893]

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[@logiczchance101]

nature will always reign supreme no matter what

[@smokiethebear3334]

That’s as clean as Toronto’s been since the last flood.

[@AnselDuke]

most normal day in toronto

[@maryjeanjones7569]

It's not normal at all. The city had very heavy rain for several hours, which has caused local rivers to flood.

[@StancyInTheCity]

You obviously don’t live here. I’m a couple blocks away and most certainly not normal.

[@maryjeanjones7569]

@StancyInTheCity I have lived in Toronto for 45 years. Today's rain and flooding is not normal in this city.

[@user-wx9ld4fz7v]

Thats insane. 😢hope everyone is okay

[@lawrencelewis2592]

I drove up the DVP this morning- lots of big puddles but nothing like this.

[@CheekyBird790]

DVP should be renamed to Don Valley Floodway

[@halon7476]

Trudeau will yap about climate change

[@Acccountable]

@christophermartin8366 No it doesn't just like 2013 did. Perhaps instead of being robot and just listening to the news, go check out the great floods of the 20th century and then come back.

[@ergosum5260]

If only yhet had built on the Don Ridge instead of valley.

[@lilybeth729]

Is a Mayor of Toronto not investing in the city issue not a climate issue 📢

[@robotron26]

She has been mayor for a year lol, blame the decade of previous conservative grifters

[@helenl7516]

So this is going on, on top of it all and Olivia Chow gave a climate change speech. SMH

[@DG-rs2ts]

I've seen fire and I've seen rain

[@zachweyrauch2988]

Two pretty decent floods weeks apart, and the deniers are in here like"obviously the catch basins were plugged and too close to a lake that was also full of hot air" The cope is pitiful.

[@blainepotskin1884]

Geo engineering. Aka cloud seeding.the cope is pitiful with you. My point were their floods in the 90’s early 00’s.but now so you can pay a carbon tax. That’ll fix everything 2:51

[@stephaniers415]

@@blainepotskin1884 "geo engineering" conspiracy is the highest level of copium available. Unless you mean geo-engineering in the sense that humans use 2.5x the Earths biocapacity yearly. You mean geo-engineering in the sense that we pollute the planet until the lakes are bloated and the marshes are gone that would otherwise be water and carbon sinks.....right? And you're worried about a tax?

[@BonaKim-hd8ec]

Déjà vu Toronto 2013 floods! Where’s the infrastructure improvements?!

[@dadgarage7966]

Can't tame the Mighty Don.

[@Brunettte-Barbie]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 That made me giggle.

[@user-eo1vz9lt8g]

Is this the highway? I don't know Toronto...

[@DRTYGONCHGOTME]

Is that sewer bridge highway area in Gta5

[@Jcgalllo]

Believe it or not, still a faster commute home.

[@KaronZarogiannis]

Wow, I was on the DVP this morning, that's crazy!@

[@CactusPlant818]

TF… We didn’t even get that much water. What the hell

[@penguinpie5056]

dude I have been having water coming into my basement for 5 hours or something like that. It's slowed but still coming in as of 830pm. I luckily bought a small USB pump that can push about 300L/h and that with water just getting to the basement drain kept it from rising. I'd estimate it was probably 1500-2000L just in my basement so far. I also unblocked storm gutters outside and they were just blasting water up to maybe a foot from the top. the whole back alley was flooded maybe 4 inches deep but that is almost all drained now.

[@zahranoori625]

I am in toronto

[@ruslankorniienko916]

Hello. How are you? I'm under the water. Its too much raining oooooo

[@brandonanddaddy]

Thats when they use 12" pipes underground

[@dancostello6465]

Is there a fat-burger blocking the drains?

[@logiczchance101]

why is this news? obviously it happens when you build so close to water ways and when most of the region is not elevated enough above sea levels. every year they keep showing this and act surprised. time to rethink how to construct and develop urban areas.

[@Fubar2024]

Okay. But logically, all cities started as small communities on waterways because that's how they moved goods centuries ago.

[@Mile-long-list]

Sea level ? Maybe you should look on a map and see where Toronto is located.

[@cvk4488]

​@@Mile-long-listprobably meant lake level

[@jamesmoore1456]

Sankofa square meet sankofa river😊

[@dbrown588]

Should’ve been called Wannabe or Ojibwe Square

[@johnwaite3879]

wonder how the electric cars are doing

[@De_facto23]

Irony is Teslas aren’t really affected by water levels. Seen quite a few videos of them ploughing through flooded the roads.

[@Fighter_Blue]

@@De_facto23 As long as water cannot get into the electronics it would be fine.

[@De_facto23]

@@Fighter_Blue absolutely and to my understanding Teslas are suppose to be well insulated against water. While an internal combustion engine when submerged that’s it.

[@UserName-jm8yw]

@@De_facto23 We do not believe you.

[@De_facto23]

@@UserName-jm8yw if I really cared if you did

[@zollioneshop]

flooded wow

[@Na-A-u6p]

Before you get to work enjoy the swimming pool of highway be freshe.

[@pfaffman100]

Wasn't the carbon tax supposed to have fixed this? Facetious of course.

[@stephaniers415]

Umm, who told you the carbon tax would stop floods? Are you high?

[@erniemurdock6953]

Boss Hogg:" All those Eye Sores are on their way to recycling!"

[@prithub.c7173]

Just focus in increasing the population, building unaffordable housing, increasing cost of living while all the drainage system is in such a poor conditions. Declaring to build new highway for billions of dollar while the existing highway is is in worse condition. Who is going to keep a track of quality of work in construction industry ??? Is their corruption going on or scamming ???

[@DTLification]

yikes

[@HuckThis1971]

Stop seeding the clouds.

[@slainetroyard9004]

Ah the next olympics site

[@gregorymcfarlane6879]

Yikaramba

[@FrankySilverFace]

You can't park there

[@ztracks7600]

They wanna blame poor maintenance and plugged sewers on climate change. 😅

[@seangrey5847]

This has been an issue for many years. They have spent millions to remedy this and are continuing to do so.

[@user-jg7sg8tj4z]

I thought Canadians with their Toyotas and Hondas could get through anything... what happened? 🤣

[@anthonyc7279]

Billions to Ukraine eh

[@egukoucu]

We have to stop farting guys!

[@moogs_the_righteous]

Moronto, don't you wish you had a mayor? Votes have consequences.

[@jasonm519]

100% agreed. At least toronto now has "politically correct" street names

[@humancommodity1066]

This will be blamed on climate change. In a well run city with proper stormwater management and maintenance, this doesn't happen.

[@stephaniers415]

Mismanaged stormwater drainage, mismanaged lakes and purged marshes IS one of the myriad causes of climate change. When we do not manage our resources and the land properly, that is climate change bud.

[@enchantedape8180]

How much do we owe in carbon tax for summer 2024?

[@covertpetersen2573]

What point do you think you're making?

[@enchantedape8180]

@covertpetersen2573 how much more do we have to pay to stop too much rain?

[@covertpetersen2573]

@@enchantedape8180 you realize that makes no sense and isn't the point right? Also, if you're against the carbon tax, what do YOU think we should be doing instead?

[@stephaniers415]

You guys love the carbon tax because it allows you to use it as a scapegoat for literally everything under the sun. Bunch of nut jobs.

[@whitemoonwolf13]

when it rains, the DVP floods. tale as old as time.

[@stephaniers415]

Not like this, and not as often as recently.

[@carmichael3594]

Toronto is a joke