Toronto Star: "Imagine a 43- or 44-degree day, which we have repeatedly had this summer with the humidex, and then with a severe thunderstorm,' muses Franz Hartmann, executive director of the Toronto Environmental Alliance. "Imagine the electricity system goes down and we get severe flooding,' he continues. Imagine collapsed culverts, backed up basement drains, sewage bubbling up in toilets, high winds, hail, highway sinkholes, toppled trees, maybe a twister. Imagine people are trapped in their sweltering...
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