By André Bovee-Begun

Yesterday’s two thunderstorms toppled trees, grounded planes at Pearson, and dotted the city with power outages. Torontoist readers would have been wise to hunker down somewhere dry and warm, but those who ventured out thinking the worst was over after a morning deluge shouldn’t feel too bad—Environment Canada declared the threat over at 1 p.m. Only seven hours later, the weather was uglier than ever. (The proof is in our photo gallery of storm photos from last night.) Winds of up to 100 km/h were recorded, and the city was flooded with roughly five centimetres of water in under an hour. Environment Canada, if they still have any credibility left, are playing it safe and warning you to expect the nasty weather to continue today, though (maybe) not quite as bad as before.
A 13-year-old girl in North York awoke Saturday morning to find a naked man hiding under her bed. According to police reports, the intruder fled the house, leaving his clothes behind, when the girl screamed for help. A search of the area failed to catch the man, and police have released a description of the possible sex offender, who is said to be roughly 20–25 years old, thin, and of dark complexion with a black ponytail.
The wanted man is not the only unexpected danger on the streets. While no one is arguing that bikes are more dangerous than cars, a fatal bike-pedestrian collision has police warning that (with a few exceptions) vehicles don’t belong on sidewalks. A 56-year-old woman died of head trauma on Saturday after being struck by a 15-year-old boy riding his bike on the sidewalk near Kennedy and Sheppard. The city bylaws are based on wheel size because it’s difficult to enforce age limits for bicycles, and since the boy was on a bike with a wheel size under sixty-one centimetres, it was technically legal for him to be riding on the sidewalk.
And Suaad Hagi, the woman who has been detained for two-and-a-half months in Kenya because immigration officials there thought her face didn’t match her Canadian passport photo, is who she says she is, according to facial recognition experts in Canada. Outrageously, Hagi is still being held in Kenya, where she faces deportation to Darfur. At the moment, Hagi’s hopes of returning home are pinned on the results of a DNA test of her and her son, expected soon.

CORRECTION: AUGUST 10, 2009 When it was first published, this article included a paragraph about Salt Spring Coffee’s fight with island residents—of Victoria, in British Columbia. We originally mistakenly suggested that the setting for the dispute was the Toronto Islands. Torontoist regrets the error.