Monday afternoon, I returned the Range Rover Evoque, and picked up this week’s car – a 2014 Mustang GT 6-speed.
Stopped in Etobicoke for a burger, and to upload a news story.
Oh it’s raining now, should head home.
I took Lakeshore to avoid the parking-lot highway traffic, and then coming into downtown it turned into one of my most nerve-racking drives ever.
Because somehow I won the car lottery, and this Mustang belongs to a VP of Ford Canada.
Imagine? Thanks for the trust, I’m 1 of 2 all summer huh? This stuff always happens to me.
I passed cars floating in the middle of intersections, you could almost see the water rising before your eyes. It was the strangest thing ever.
I was impressed how calm the roads were, hardly any honking.
Non-residents: a freak of nature happened to the city last night, it was a rain assault. 90mm fell in 2 hours; the average July monthly rainfall is 74mm.
And poof, just like that Toronto was drowning.
And you saw the floating Ferrari California probably; the Toronto Star got the story behind it.
Check out BlogTO’s photo stream to see the carnage. The last photo is so odd. And here’s BlogTO’s “storm by the numbers” re-cap. More than a hurricane-amount of rain in 2 hours!
The Mustang powered through no problem. The water was almost past the wells.
I got lucky and made it to the other side of the valleys, just before they became impassable. No no, like, made it home with 45-seconds-to-spare lucky #SoLucky
In the middle of the night, I woke up like GAH, went down to the garage, what if it flooded down there?
It started right away, and I sat there revving my first press V8 ahhh.
