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Toronto, 2017.05.18

Lake Ontario was apparently at its highest ever yesterday, May 17 - I've put together a pic of what that looks like in Toronto. This photo was taken on May 8, when the water was marginally below where it was yesterday.

flooding on Toronto's beaches, May 8 2017

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At one point, the water is now all the way up to the board walk. Perhaps now the die-hard fans of calling the neighbourhood behind those beaches "The Beach" will finally relent. Though I'm not holding my breath.

rand()m quote

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

—Sigmund Freud