Last night saw the heaviest one-day rainfall in Toronto history. Some commuters were stranded 7 hours on a train in the Don Valley near Pottery Road, with flooding over its lower level seats - they had to huddle on the upper level and eventually were rescued by boat. A full rush hour train with over 1500 people on it.

I didn't have it quite that bad. I stayed at work an extra hour, and the deluge had settled to heavy steady rain when I left, but I knew there would be traffic chaos and huge puddles and flooded underpasses, plus the power at work was out and I wasn't sure if the bike compound magnetic lock would be working, so I walked up to the bus stop. (In retrospect, the bike compound was probably unlocked, but no matter). The intersection was impossibly jammed due to rush hour and the traffic lights being out. I walked on in the lessening rain half a km, and luckily caught a bus that had "short-turned" and rode that until it malfunctioned due to moisture in the circuits, then got on the bus behind it, that also malfunctioned, with a rear-door alarm going for the whole 1 hour ride. But at least it drove. It should have been a 30 minute ride, but traffic was very slow due to multiple traffic lights out. We drove through a flooded underpass, zig-zagging between the stalled car and the tow-truck, and on to the terminal.

Traffic was even worse up there, due to road construction and more traffic lights out, so instead of catching a second bus, I walked another 30 min in the rain, which was picking up again and finally 3 km from home, I bailed and called my daughter to pick me up. I hadn't wanted to call earlier as she would have had to cope with traffic chaos, so I waited until I was within an easy, no hassle drive for her. Two and a half hours instead of the usual 1 hour by transit or 45 minutes by bike.

Left early this morning and had a slightly slow but otherwise uneventful bus ride in.