The mayor of Glencoe, Ont., says the cost of cleaning up and repairing the damage from Wednesday’s deadly rainstorm has pushed his rural community to ask the province for financial relief.
Environment Canada said Wednesday the town received 135 millimetres of rain during a downpour that turned driveways into ponds, roads into streams and filled basements with sewage.
So much rain fell so fast that it caused Dundonald Road, the town’s most important thoroughfare, to collapse — opening up a three-metre sinkhole that provincial police said swallowed a transport truck, killing the driver.
Environment Canada called Wednesday’s storm a once-in-a-century weather event, one Glencoe Mayor Al Mayhew told CBC News would carry a
