Life in a Flood [Toronto Story]

Wow... I did not expect Toronto to have such a massive flood... but here it is.
A 3 Foot flood that took over Mississauga... Theres no power, theres so much chaos... I got into a fight with a jackass on the street for trying to crash us for a spot in our lane when he illegally drove off road.

So how did this all happen?

First... I needed my cellphone but Rogers delivered it late... sooo this is a story without any pictures because of Rogers not giving me my phone in time.

During work I was doing an impossible project... the manager of the other building told me, "This is impossible, you will never be able to do it, and im serious!" Me: "... THEN WHY AM I DOING THIS!"

After work me and my dad decided to go to a grocery store to get dinner... but there wasn't anything ready for us to eat -_-... so we decided to go to Mississauga China Town to get dinner. It started pouring a bit, but my dad said we'll be alright. BOY WAS HE WRONG.

We reached China town and got my favourite, Porkchop with rice... I swear to god they put MSG in it, but its too good to care. The lights kept flickering in the mall, and my dad told me, Sam it's ok... they just can't afford electricity. And then as we finished our meal we took a step away from out table, and all the power of the mall went out. It was scary... Being in the dark in China town... You could hear the rain pouring hard... and everyone was silent like death was upon us... 

Actually... it wasn't, there were safety lights on for black outs so we were ok... As we left some little girls were crying. They screamed, "OMG WE CANT OPEN THE DOOR, ITS ELECTRICAL!"
I thought to myself ... There has to be a way....
Then I walked up to the door, and pushed the door opened...
wow... don't we all feel stupid today...

We ran into the car, and it was PISSING RAIN. Not pouring rain, BUT PISSING RAIN, like when you drink a giant soda at the movies and you need to pee. THAT MASSIVE PEE. We ran towards our car and a Black man grabbed me. He yelled at me, "HEY YOU DRIVE MY CAR TO ME! TAKE MY KEYS!"
I thought he was trying to rape me so I jumped into the parking lot, which was 2 feet of water and jumped inside my car.
Now that I think of it... maybe I should have stolen his car and drove off...

My dad drove but we were getting deeper... and deeper into water. See China town was built like a bowl so all the water was collected around the roads around us. So we were basically drowning our car in the flood trying to get out. I felt like I was in a movie where we were driving a submarine car...
We actually almost got into an accident, but thank god 3 feet of water avoided the collision in the parking lot.

We finally got out of the parking lot and made it to the road thinking, we'll be ok... but we weren't. In fact it reminded me of Walking dead... Chaos everywhere. The roads were getting cars abandoned left and right. People were screaming, and cars were hitting each other. It was scary. We kept driving slowly because the faster you drive, the more likely your car will die

Our safety zone was the highway. We knew if we made it there, there was no way we wouldn't be able to avoid the water. So we drove past cars in 20 minutes [usually takes us 5 minutes to hit the highway on a nice day...] to make the highway. Only one problem... so was everyone else.

The highway was packed with cars left and right, cutting each other because one wanted to get ahead of the other... It was chaos. People refusing to let ppl in so they ram each other... Cars trying to drive on side walks and road constructions... And some people gave up hope, stopped their car and got out and prayed to god... This was an apocalypse.

[You know the weather is bad when the Express bus drives on regular roads than the highway]

It took us 2 hours to make it half way through the highway, and we saw a massive accident that stopped the highway 427. An Asian tour bus was hit by on coming traffic and dozens were hurt... Unfortunately... THAT WAS WHY THE HIGHWAY WAS SLOW. So after we past the accident we zoomed past everyone going, WHY DA F*CK DID EVERYONE STOP AND WATCH. We had two choices, go all the way on the highway, or switch to the regular roads... We decided to stick to regular roads to avoid any problems... We were wise to do so as the highway actually was closed off due to floods... But we weren't in the clear.

We waited... an hour on the road to drive to our home, but people were doing illegal U turns cutting people, it was just awful... and we hit an intersection FINALLY. But we realized our problem. We were going into a ditch of water. See some roads around our house connect near a river so they curve downwards towards it. Our road was flooded and cars were drowning infront of us.
I thought to myself... What would ms.Frizzle do. Remember in magic school bus? The Marsh land episode. If there is no marsh theres floods :O
WE NEED TO SAVE THE MARSHES! 

Anyways... we had to take a right turn, for the worst... It was massive traffic jam. The problem was, I swear to god the police don't know how to close a lane. They closed every lane going north so everyone went in a circle. Everyone was turning right to avoid the clog in the left. Everyone was going left to avoid the clog at the right. No one knew the future for each other. I started singing songs with my dad... and we started talking about how life exists in our universe... We finally hit a traffic light WITH ELECTRICITY I forgot to say there was no power anywhere... Everything was pitch black at 6pm with rain clouds. Scariest shyt ever. Anyways seeing a traffic light was amazing. I have never thought in my life a red light would make me so happy.

 

The problem was... even though there was electricity, people didn't follow the rules. My dad had to use the washroom so we tried turning into a construction site to well... pee in a tree. People were such douchebags. I tried signaling, they cut us off. I opened my window to put my hand up to say let me go in, they cut me off. I screamed, they threw stuff at me. Our society is disgusting. I hope those people got hit by a car [I don't mean it... but you know maybe car breaks down is more deserving] We finally just gave up and cut someone off and parked our car and ran to a tree to "make it rain".

We had to wait for 20 minutes before it started clearing up a bit. At this moment me and my dad thought... things have gotten to the worst.. but wait... maybe it hasn't.
Let's do our lives check list:
- We aren't alone, Check
- We had dinner, Check
- We peed, Check
- We haven't been hurt, Check
- We are together, Check

... Even though the weather was as bad as it was... how bad the traffic, how rude everyone was, and how boring it was... me and my dad had each other. And honestly I wouldn't of had it any other way.
If I wasn't there may dad would be worried sick, and so would I.
Sometimes in extreme conditions, you have to chin up and smile... you're alive and well thats all you need.

After that we drove, everything was clearing up, the traffic was build up but we decided to go all at it. We drove through an old path I use to take to go to highschool and it was pitch black throughout the streets with trees covering the dark sky... which does nothing when there is no light... We counted... 3...2...1... NO MOR TRAFFIC LIGHTS TIME TO GO HOME. IT was still dark with no power, but still we walked into our house and screamed, FINALLY

Sometimes a flood and a blackout really are scary things... but when your throw away fear... what else do you have left? 

Next time you get into an incident like me, give a moment to think...  what is truly important to you.
Some people is about going home to see family, some are just not patient, some people just want to let off steam and anger others... but some... 

No, I know a lot of you out there... will realize what is important to you is the people you love.

Now I'm sitting at home with all the light off.
You know you look SO DAM RETARDED when you try to turn on the lights when there is no power in your home -_-