Ottawa streets 'became canals' as thunderstorm brought flooding, power outages

A thunderstorm brought heavy rain, hail and power outages to parts of Ottawa on Thursday, forcing some people to abandon their vehicles on flooded roads. Environment Canada said Ottawa's climate weather station recorded 77.4 millimetres of rainfall in the city.
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[@metime4325]

Wish this rain fell on Hawaii.

[@lynneanthony168]

Or British Columbia

[@psychedelicfright85]

​@lynneanthony168 what about regular Colombia?

[@2NDHANDSMOKEent]

Happens in Toronto all the time

[@rejivarkey3797]

Our prayers for residents of Ottawa.

[@neuralkernel]

Have you considered just building proper canals?

[@gtech66]

That would require someone with a brain to make change. No, they rather have floods and wildfires instead of fixing the problem.

[@nuxkamina]

not before...its like there's been a weather change...

[@michaelcopper613]

We have one big canal in Ottawa, but most of the flooding happened pretty far out in the suburbs. And our suburbs stretch at least 20km in each direction from downtown.

[@Alex-xg5kr]

Wind is a finite resource. Wind has to be shared like water. We have a huge problem with the lack of wind and unfortunately it has to do with the amount of wind the wind farms harvest. If you can get them shut down even only temporary will save a lot of infrastructure and lives. Thank you for listening;

[@HenrykandBasiaJarzabek]

This happened in Tecumseh ONT. /Windsor/

[@psychedelicfright85]

0:42 did someone fart?

[@luketracey3269]

Pissed on

[@leemccabemccabe5627]

Good God Almighty NHS Zion Train Energy 1994 🎶 🎵

[@ace_budget]

What will happen if It’s the snow geez …. Obviously all theses thunderstorms and rains were because of the wildFire

[@michaelcopper613]

You must be joking right? Wildfire smoke actually causes there to be LESS thunderstorms in the area.

[@ace_budget]

@@michaelcopper613 the Wildfire makes big Clouds that create rain and thunderstorms. It forms from the energy of a wildfire.

[@michaelcopper613]

@@ace_budget Ain't no way, I've read the total opposite 😹

[@john.a.gonsalves3731]

o my how extreme, the woke-ism that is....happens every year and that is what a lots of rain does, no need to panic.....

[@gtech66]

This news story lost me at millimeters..

[@nuxkamina]

that's ok. It's metric...and its the rate that's important anyway. 100mm a year and 100mm a second will be drastically different.

[@michaelcopper613]

Why? Are you an American who knows nothing outside of your own country?

[@gtech66]

@@michaelcopper613 Yes. We don't care about metric.

[@SynergeticMan]

@therealeverydaytech then to translate it for you, a millimeter is about a 7.35 wee wiskers or half a smidge (the furlong type, not the fathom type). 😜 Time to get off your tail and learn a proper system of measurement.

[@613ott]

This is probably the most rookie newscast I've ever seen, ankle high water. This is a joke😂😂😂😂