whew!

There is a great deal of crazy crazy weather here in the Greater Toronto Area tonight. At about 5:30 today, the skys completely opened up. I've never seen it rain so hard, so fast. Within 15 or 20 minutes the parking lot was absolutely flooded. There was at least 3 feet of water. At intersection after intersection, people were totally freaking out as they attempted to wade through such a large amount of water. Driving the small, weak Toyota Tercel that I do, this sort of off roading was pretty much out of the question. SUV driver after SUV driver was able to barrel through the rapids with nary a beat of an eye. This completely through off my entire route home. I was unable to use my usual backroads. This meant that I was about 1/4 of the way home at the time I usually am able to be home and safe. It was painful, just painful. Listening to the radio on the way home it seemed that this wasn't exactly an isolated incident. There were numerous tornado/thunderstorm warnings across Southern Ontario. We passed countless downed trees on the way home. I hope that everyone made it home alright tonight. I feel bad because my mother has to almost head straight back out now to pick my brother up from work at Canada's Wonderland.