The last of the basement container

More of the basement mess

My poor basement

For several weeks it looked like I was a fucking hillbilly. Look at all the fucking junk?????

More flooding on Maplewood

Ducks swimming on Maplewood!

More water on Maplewood & Aragon

Water on Aragon and Maplewood

Flooding in Pierrefonds.

In front of the Pierreonds Library

On the Corner of ReneEmard and Gouin: 

Flooding elsewhere in the borrough

On St Jean near Mourelatos.

Just blows my mind!!!!

Flooding on Maplewood Curve

As it turns out some parts of my street were flooded. Mine wasn't but my basement was

Seen from other angle 

 

We love freaky weather in Quebec....

Montreal should really consider fixing it's aging sewer system. It's not acceptable whenever it rains a lot in a short time, to have a percentage of Montreal's underpasses flooded.  It makes it very difficult to get between one area of the city and another.

Last night an ambulance got caught in a flooded underpass. They had to dispatch a second one to the emergency as the first one was floating in the water that accumulated there. About 10 days ago there was another flooded underpass, and also in mid July.  Here's a story from 2009 with flooded underpasses.  I mean we should not have flooded underpasses each time there's a big thunderstorm.

What about the car that got lifted by a water geyser on July 18th?

Nothing beats the flood of July 14th, 1987 though, where 2 people died. I remember that day well I spent it alone in my basement condo with my eldest, who was 3 months old, watching the water rise from my patio door and wondering if my condo would flood.  The intensity of the rain stopped, when the water level was almost flush with the door.  I also remember worrying because the father of my daughter didn't get home till very late. I especially remember that the phone line was dead. It was the only time in my life I've seen the demand bigger then capacity. I've never seen it since, where you couldn't get  a signal picking up the phone. My dad spent 3 hours picking up the phone every couple of minutes until he got a signal to call me to see if the baby and I were OK.

Here's a headline you don't get to see often, Tornado hits Lac St Jean area. I know every summer we get 4 or 5 tornadoes and most of the time they take out a barn in rural Quebec. Thankfully most of the time there are few injuries or deaths, just some property damage.

What's with the flood of biblical proportions?

What is it with the news media referring to the current Australian flood being of biblical proportions? One of the main flooded cities is RockHampton.

I quote from Wikipedia "The Fitzroy River at Rockhampton has a long and well documented history of flooding with flood records dating back to 1859. The highest recorded flood occurred in January 1918 and reached 10.11 metres on the Rockhampton gauge. The most recent major flood occurred in December 2010".

There is 77,000 people in RockHampton and it is the community the worst affected. Most people have been evacuated to dry grounds.  All the other affected communities are smaller.  So where's the "Biblical proportions" coming in?????

I mean what about the 2010 floods in Pakistan, from which people have not yet recovered?  I quote again from Wikipedia "At one point, approximately one-fifth of Pakistan's total land area was underwater.According to Pakistani government data the floods directly affected about 20 million people, mostly by destruction of property, livelihood and infrastructure, with a death toll of close to 2,000.^[2] The number of individuals affected by the flooding exceeds the combined total of individuals affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake.^[6]

^{The news media isn't talking about Pakistan anymore. It hasn't made headlines in a while. So what makes Australia so special?}