Brief downpour hits the downtown core
Posted August 27, 2013 8:43 pm.
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People rushed for cover as a brief but powerful downpour swept through the downtown core Tuesday evening.
Although the storm lasted for only about an hour it managed to drop about 25 millimetres of rain onto the city.
“We had a pretty good downpour that came in through the downtown core,” CityNews meteorologist Adam Stiles explained. “It really intensified once it settled over Toronto.”
The storm managed to strand two taxi cabs in flood waters in the Lower Simcoe tunnel.
Stiles said this was more a matter of localized flooding than a repeat of the massive storm that hit the GTA in July which was deemed Ontario’s most costly natural disaster.
“It’s not like what we saw throughout July when we saw 100 millimetres of rain come down in a matter of hours,” he explained.
Lower Simcoe East was closed south of Front Street for several hours while crews pumped the water out of the area.
