How climate change gave added urgency to a $1.25B project to prevent flooding in Toronto | CBC News
In May 2017, record-breaking levels in Lake Ontario left much of the Toronto islands underwater throughout the summer.
The following year, a powerful storm hit the city in August, dropping more than 64 millimetres of rain in just a two-hour span.
The rising water washed out roadways, backed up sewage, submerged vehicles, flooded basements, and trapped two men
in a north-end elevator filled with six feet of water — leaving them
only a foot of air to breathe when they were finally rescued by police.
Before
many residents had finished clearing liquid muck from their homes,
another round of torrential rain flooded buildings and basements all
over again a week later.
Is this the new normal for residents in Canada’s largest city?