I've always felt close to Hazel too. My aunt and uncle lived near the Humber and my dad was living with them. Thankfully they were on the high ground off of South Kingsway.. My father was also a teenager and he described how long it took his sister to get home in the rain, and how the rain just wouldn't stop. I still have a copy of Betty Kennedy's book on Hazel and every time I go down there to paddle I look at the high water mark on the bridge.
I got into a discussion in a comment section on a video about flood mediation with an American who was claiming that planning for floods was foolish and there was no problem with development on a flood plain. So I told him about how people died during Hazel and how thanks to flood planning we won't see something like that again. That shut him up.
I saw the Mr Dressup documentary at TIFF and everyone should see it.
It seems to be one of those rare events that everyone who here remembers — though it's disturbing how many people seem to be forgetting the lessons that were learned... and must have been learned from similar storms in countless other places.
And that's very good to hear about the documentary! I'm looking forward to seeing it! (Though I was a bit terrified of the Tickle Trunk as a little kid.)
I've always felt close to Hazel too. My aunt and uncle lived near the Humber and my dad was living with them. Thankfully they were on the high ground off of South Kingsway.. My father was also a teenager and he described how long it took his sister to get home in the rain, and how the rain just wouldn't stop. I still have a copy of Betty Kennedy's book on Hazel and every time I go down there to paddle I look at the high water mark on the bridge.
I got into a discussion in a comment section on a video about flood mediation with an American who was claiming that planning for floods was foolish and there was no problem with development on a flood plain. So I told him about how people died during Hazel and how thanks to flood planning we won't see something like that again. That shut him up.
I saw the Mr Dressup documentary at TIFF and everyone should see it.
It seems to be one of those rare events that everyone who here remembers — though it's disturbing how many people seem to be forgetting the lessons that were learned... and must have been learned from similar storms in countless other places.
And that's very good to hear about the documentary! I'm looking forward to seeing it! (Though I was a bit terrified of the Tickle Trunk as a little kid.)