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A deluge that began on Sunday and continued into Monday broke records.
It also brought power disruptions, closed schools and flooded basements. It washed out roads and carved out sinkholes before Environment Canada lifted a rainfall warning Monday afternoon.
And all of this in a year that — as of this weekend, and with two months left to go — is already the wettest on record. Ottawa got 39 millimetres on Sunday alone, more than double the previous record of 17.4 mm for Oct. 29 in 2003.
In Ottawa, flooding at the corner of Bank Street and Riverside Drive overwhelmed a parking lot, leaving one car almost submerged. Nearly 3,000 customers were without power in the Dunrobin and Kinburn areas Monday morning, with other power disruptions across the city. By the end of the day, about 9,000 customers had experienced some loss of power.
The flooded entrance of the Pebb Building.
Five public schools shut down due to power outages and plumbing woes linked to the extreme weather
In Barrhaven, part of a lawn on Broxburn Crescent turned into a sinkhole at least a metre across and more than a metre deep.
The Ottawa River water levels are still well below last spring, but it was the run-off creating drainage problems in the community west of Britannia, said Alex Cullen of the Belltown Neighbourhood Association. That included sewer backups flooding basements in a row of townhouses at the foot of Kempster Avenue.
“We are still more than a metre and a half below last spring’s Ottawa River flood levels, so no fears there,” Cullen said.
On the Quebec side, the mayor of La Pêche declared a state of emergency on Monday morning, while Gatineau opened a co-ordination centre. Although water had accumulated in a number of areas in Gatineau, river levels did not reached the warning mark. The city closed an evacuee shelter at the centre communautaire Le Baron Monday at around 8 p.m.
However, there was so much water in a Gatineau mobile home park that people evacuated after one section of Parc de la Riviera was cut off as water from a creek that runs through the community rose around 30 feet.
By 2 p.m. much of the water had receded from Françoise Renault’s First Avenue home. She and her husband, who live on the northern edge of the creek, were cleaning up the mess the flood left in their yard.
The water reached the base of the home and they did not have water damage, but all their electrical tools in their shed were destroyed.
“There is nothing that is covered by the insurance because (the shed) is not part of the house,” she said. “I don’t think water touched the inside of the house, but I am sure there are a lot of people that have damage inside.”
As the water rose in the early morning hours, Renault thought of a neighbour down the road on Second Avenue in a wheelchair. She called 911 to see if the city was going to evacuate those homes.
“We knew there were handicapped people and they said there is somebody (emergency services) on Third Avenue, and I said, ‘First and Second Avenue are flooded too. I know people in wheelchairs. They are locked in their house.’”
Sylvie Goneau, a city councillor who’s running for mayor of Gatineau, scrapped plans to deliver her cultural platform Monday and was instead surveying the damage.
Residents of Parc de la Riviera in Gatineau had to be evacuated.
Goneau, whose own home is being rebuilt after being damaged by the spring flooding, had emails from constituents saying there was water again on their streets, roads were detoured and ditches overflowing.
The problem goes beyond leaf-clogged drains, she said, and municipalities will need help from the provincial and federal governments to adapt infrastructure to deal with the increasing number of extreme weather events.
“To be able to contend with all these changes, municipalities need to raise their streets to higher levels,” she said. “In some aspects we need to put our electricity wires under ground. We need to have bigger water treatment systems. We need to be able to divide the sanitary sewers from the rainwater sewers so we don’t see sewers backing up into people’s basements. These are all measures that need partnerships to be adequately dealt with.”
The popular Wakefield Mill announced that it was closed due to a landslide and downed power lines on Mill Road. And road crews scrambled to repair roads in La Pêche, including gaping sinkholes on chemin de la Montagne and chemin de la Rivière at the corner of McLinton Road.
Chemin de la Montagne erodes in flood waters near Wakefield.
The Rideau Valley Conservation Authority reported Monday that after very little rain in September and October, rainfall over the past three days of between 70 to 100 millimetres created water levels typically seen in the spring.
Parks Canada staff adjusted the Long Island Dam to slow the increase of water levels on the Long Reach. However, access roads to communities on the Rideau River near Kemptville may still be threatened as the water from upstream passes through the system, the conservation authority warned.
In the Tay subwatershed, flooding was so far limited to Stewart Park in Perth. Adjustments will be made at the construction site at Haggert Island dam to accommodate increased flows.
The conservation authority said farmers are possibly most affected by the heavy rains.
“With significant standing water left in fields, farmers may have difficulty removing the remaining crops. Rain forecast over the rest of the week will continue to cause problems getting on the fields.”
Meanwhile, with more rain expected into next weekend — Environment Canada is calling for rain almost every day right up to Sunday — the recession of waters in streams such as Steven Creek won’t happen quickly. Residents in North Gower can expect to see the banks almost full through to next week, says the conservation authority.
Tuesday’s forecast was calling for increasing cloudiness in the morning, a 70 per cent chance of afternoon showers and a high of 8 C.
The forecast for Halloween night: a 30 per cent chance of showers or flurries and a low of zero.
BY THE NUMBERS
9,000: Hydro Ottawa customers who lost power Monday
5: Public schools closed
50: People who evacuated Parc de la Riviera, a Gatineau trailer park
39: Amount of rain on Sunday alone, in millimetres
17.4: Amount of rain, in millimetres, on Oct. 29, 2003, the previous record-setting day
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It also brought power disruptions, closed schools and flooded basements. It washed out roads and carved out sinkholes before Environment Canada lifted a rainfall warning Monday afternoon.
And all of this in a year that — as of this weekend, and with two months left to go — is already the wettest on record. Ottawa got 39 millimetres on Sunday alone, more than double the previous record of 17.4 mm for Oct. 29 in 2003.
In Ottawa, flooding at the corner of Bank Street and Riverside Drive overwhelmed a parking lot, leaving one car almost submerged. Nearly 3,000 customers were without power in the Dunrobin and Kinburn areas Monday morning, with other power disruptions across the city. By the end of the day, about 9,000 customers had experienced some loss of power.
The flooded entrance of the Pebb Building.
Five public schools shut down due to power outages and plumbing woes linked to the extreme weather
In Barrhaven, part of a lawn on Broxburn Crescent turned into a sinkhole at least a metre across and more than a metre deep.
The Ottawa River water levels are still well below last spring, but it was the run-off creating drainage problems in the community west of Britannia, said Alex Cullen of the Belltown Neighbourhood Association. That included sewer backups flooding basements in a row of townhouses at the foot of Kempster Avenue.
“We are still more than a metre and a half below last spring’s Ottawa River flood levels, so no fears there,” Cullen said.
On the Quebec side, the mayor of La Pêche declared a state of emergency on Monday morning, while Gatineau opened a co-ordination centre. Although water had accumulated in a number of areas in Gatineau, river levels did not reached the warning mark. The city closed an evacuee shelter at the centre communautaire Le Baron Monday at around 8 p.m.
However, there was so much water in a Gatineau mobile home park that people evacuated after one section of Parc de la Riviera was cut off as water from a creek that runs through the community rose around 30 feet.
By 2 p.m. much of the water had receded from Françoise Renault’s First Avenue home. She and her husband, who live on the northern edge of the creek, were cleaning up the mess the flood left in their yard.
The water reached the base of the home and they did not have water damage, but all their electrical tools in their shed were destroyed.
“There is nothing that is covered by the insurance because (the shed) is not part of the house,” she said. “I don’t think water touched the inside of the house, but I am sure there are a lot of people that have damage inside.”
As the water rose in the early morning hours, Renault thought of a neighbour down the road on Second Avenue in a wheelchair. She called 911 to see if the city was going to evacuate those homes.
“We knew there were handicapped people and they said there is somebody (emergency services) on Third Avenue, and I said, ‘First and Second Avenue are flooded too. I know people in wheelchairs. They are locked in their house.’”
Sylvie Goneau, a city councillor who’s running for mayor of Gatineau, scrapped plans to deliver her cultural platform Monday and was instead surveying the damage.
Residents of Parc de la Riviera in Gatineau had to be evacuated.
Goneau, whose own home is being rebuilt after being damaged by the spring flooding, had emails from constituents saying there was water again on their streets, roads were detoured and ditches overflowing.
The problem goes beyond leaf-clogged drains, she said, and municipalities will need help from the provincial and federal governments to adapt infrastructure to deal with the increasing number of extreme weather events.
“To be able to contend with all these changes, municipalities need to raise their streets to higher levels,” she said. “In some aspects we need to put our electricity wires under ground. We need to have bigger water treatment systems. We need to be able to divide the sanitary sewers from the rainwater sewers so we don’t see sewers backing up into people’s basements. These are all measures that need partnerships to be adequately dealt with.”
The popular Wakefield Mill announced that it was closed due to a landslide and downed power lines on Mill Road. And road crews scrambled to repair roads in La Pêche, including gaping sinkholes on chemin de la Montagne and chemin de la Rivière at the corner of McLinton Road.
Chemin de la Montagne erodes in flood waters near Wakefield.
The Rideau Valley Conservation Authority reported Monday that after very little rain in September and October, rainfall over the past three days of between 70 to 100 millimetres created water levels typically seen in the spring.
Parks Canada staff adjusted the Long Island Dam to slow the increase of water levels on the Long Reach. However, access roads to communities on the Rideau River near Kemptville may still be threatened as the water from upstream passes through the system, the conservation authority warned.
In the Tay subwatershed, flooding was so far limited to Stewart Park in Perth. Adjustments will be made at the construction site at Haggert Island dam to accommodate increased flows.
The conservation authority said farmers are possibly most affected by the heavy rains.
“With significant standing water left in fields, farmers may have difficulty removing the remaining crops. Rain forecast over the rest of the week will continue to cause problems getting on the fields.”
Meanwhile, with more rain expected into next weekend — Environment Canada is calling for rain almost every day right up to Sunday — the recession of waters in streams such as Steven Creek won’t happen quickly. Residents in North Gower can expect to see the banks almost full through to next week, says the conservation authority.
Tuesday’s forecast was calling for increasing cloudiness in the morning, a 70 per cent chance of afternoon showers and a high of 8 C.
The forecast for Halloween night: a 30 per cent chance of showers or flurries and a low of zero.
BY THE NUMBERS
9,000: Hydro Ottawa customers who lost power Monday
5: Public schools closed
50: People who evacuated Parc de la Riviera, a Gatineau trailer park
39: Amount of rain on Sunday alone, in millimetres
17.4: Amount of rain, in millimetres, on Oct. 29, 2003, the previous record-setting day
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