Massive rainstorm floods capital
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A man takes off his shoes to cross a flooded University Avenue Thursday. Areas throughout Charlottetown were reported flooded due to the heavy rainfall, including Grafton Street near Holland College and parts of Kensington Road near Joe Ghiz Memorial Park
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Trevor Leclerc sent us this photo he took at 5:15 p.m. Thursday at Queen Street and& Desbrisay Crescent.
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This car parked along Kensington Road near Joe Ghiz Memorial Park became submerged in flood water following a day of heavy rainfall in Charlottetown. Guardian photo
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Public Works crews were busy at work clearing flooded Charlottetown streets, Thursday following a massive downpour that left much of the city under water. Pictured is Spring Street.
A man takes off his shoes to cross a flooded University Avenue Thursday. Areas throughout Charlottetown were reported flooded due to the heavy rainfall, including Grafton Street near Holland College and parts of Kensington Road near Joe Ghiz Memorial Park
Trevor Leclerc sent us this photo he took at 5:15 p.m. Thursday at Queen Street and& Desbrisay Crescent.
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This car parked along Kensington Road near Joe Ghiz Memorial Park became submerged in flood water following a day of heavy rainfall in Charlottetown. Guardian photo
Public Works crews were busy at work clearing flooded Charlottetown streets, Thursday following a massive downpour that left much of the city under water. Pictured is Spring Street.
A mother and son attempt to cross a flooded Spring Street, Thursday following a day of heavy rains that left much of the city under water.
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- BigFrog
- - August 27th, 2010 at 08:58:07
No storm sewer can contain 94mm of rain over a 2-3 hour period. That's nearly 4 inches or rain. Not even in some parts of the US, where they get this type of rain more often can they contend with it. I've never seen this much in such a short period of time for a long time. When Tropical Storm Hanna hit us last Sept with 103mm of rain, it was over a much longer period and the storm sewer system handled that not to bad. This amount of rain in that short period was huge for our area and was a complete surprise to everyone, even the weather office as they predicted 25mm. So don't blame the sewer system, and yes, there is room for improvements but this was apocalyptic. To expect better, is being far too optimistic.
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- Quiet Observer
- - August 27th, 2010 at 08:24:08
I am glad to see that of the $3,000,000 spent to redo the Mt. Edward/Allen corner, that the $1,500,000 spent to redo the storm drains to fix the flooding problem has turned out to be a waste of $1,500,000. The city engineers have maintained my faith in them at the same level. Mind you, the roundabout is great.
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- Brian
- - August 27th, 2010 at 08:07:25
Now I'm waiting for the announcement of another closing of the Hillsborough River shellfishery.
