Pamela Roth
Sun Times
Nothing could have prepared the organizers of the city’s Canada Day festivities for the events that unfolded from the sky last year. July 1 got underway just like any other Canada Day, with the Astro jumps and vendors in place at Henderson Lake, and one performer taking the stage, recalls Carol Thibert, one of the organizers.
But then the sky turned as black as night as the clouds rolled in during the early afternoon and burst open, dropping 45 millimetres of rain on the city in only a few hours. The high volume of rain overwhelmed storm sewers, flooding streets around the city. When all was said and done, roughly 500 homes were affected by varying levels of flooding. |
