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A woman gets back into her flooded car on the Toronto Indy course on Lakeshore Boulevard in Toronto on Monday.
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A woman gets back into her flooded car on the Toronto Indy course on Lakeshore Boulevard in Toronto on Monday. Record-smashing rains knocked out power for hundreds of thousands of residents across the Greater Toronto Area, including the majority of Mississauga, and so badly flooded some roads and major highways that drivers abandoned their waterlogged vehicles. Environment Canada said some parts of the GTA had been drenched with more than 100 millimetres of rain, trouncing the previous one-day rainfall record of 29.2 mm in 2008 for Toronto and even beating the 74.4 mm monthly average for July.