Summer storm causes flooding, knocks out power as it moves through GTA

Toronto,Residents in parts of the city are dealing with the remnants of a heavy summer storm that moved through the GTA Wednesday night, knocking out power and flooding roads.
Approximately 2,000 customers in the city’s east end were offline as of 7:20 p.m. after the storm downed tree branches and hydro wires in its path. Toronto Hydro said that the outage was affecting people in an area from St. Clair to Eglinton avenues, between Warden Avenue and the Don Valley Parkway. However by 8 p.m. power had been restored to all but a handful of customers.
Other power outages were reported in Whitchurch-Stouffville, Aurora, Newmarket and Bolton. Hydro One initially said approximately 2,150 of its customers were affected, however that number was reduced to about 600 customers a short time later.Videos and images shared on social media showed local flooding in the downtown core and the city’s east end, with cars and transit vehicles having to navigate heavy waters on main streets.
Images shared online also showed water streaming from the lobby ceiling of a condo building at Lake Shore Boulevard and York Street.
There were no immediate reports of any weather-related injuries following the storm.
The heavy rains arrived as Toronto sa under a severe thunderstorm warning from Environment Canada.
The agency said a cluster of storm clouds slowly tracking south over the GTA could bring very strong wind gusts, pea to dime size hail and heavy rain. The warning was also in effect briefly for parts of York Region.
All warnings for the GTA had ended by around 8:30 p.m. as the storm system moved out of the area.
The storm comes amid a bout of hot summer weather in the GTA. Temperatures have been at or above 30 C for much of the past week.
Cooler weather is forecast for the rest of the week however, with highs below 30 C predicted for Toronto from Thursday on.