Environment
Check Out This Crazy Flooding in Montreal
A broken water main unleashed a torrent.
A torrent of brown water surged through the streets of Montreal yesterday afternoon, sweeping residents off their feet and making the center city an impassable web of churning moats.
The cause, officials said, was the rupture of a four-foot water main, which flooded intersections, basements and garages downtown at around 4:30 p.m. At least three people were swept off their feet. Peter Rakobowchuk and Nelson Wyatt of the Canadian Press write that residents did their best to carry on: