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Thor is a scab, flushing the dirt and trash off Toronto's streets like that.
1) Look on the bright side: T&T will not be the ones going belly-up. It'll have to be Loblaws, which might make it harder.
2) The water levels are unusual, but they really don't qualify as "extraordinary and surreal" to see. Standing water after flash floods, up to 30cm, are fairly typical and we get them enough here. When you have flood waters so high that an expressway like the 401, in places where it's dug below grade, resembles a canal, where all submerged cars and SUVs cannot even be seen, and water levels are at the windscreen level of big rig trucks, then you're dealing with something that Houstonist readers would readily share, is an extraordinary and surreal event. What we're getting is a bath by comparison. Unfortunately, it also means Lake Ontario is now even more fouled by a plume of coliform bacteria, automotive oil products, yard fertilizer runoff, and floating trash that make the beaches close for several days at a time.
Could be technically worse. Could be when we used to pump raw sewage straight into the waterfront, giving us about a metre deep of solid waste sludge on the surface of the lake — that is, before the reluctant 1913 vote to build the Ashbridges Bay sewage treatment facility. Yummy, huh?
The photos are ordinary and real.