As you can see, up here on the 8th floor of our hotel, it just looked like an approaching typical thunderstorm to us.

We went down at 6:30 to catch a cab and we were surprised to not find one. There were two other groups ahead of us. We waited about 10 to 15 minutes until the 3rd taxi pulled up and then we headed off to dinner.

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Only then did we begin hearing that it was not an average storm in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). But rather a massive storm, the sort of summer storm they haven’t seen here for decades.

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Power is out to more than 83% of the area.

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Subways and the GO trains aren’t running because they are respectively flooded or floating.

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