1,700 households in Windsor, Ont., area damaged by flooding from rainstorm
WINDSOR, Ont. — Officials say more than 1,700 households in the southwestern Ontario communities of Windsor, Tecumseh and Lakeshore have been damaged due to a rainstorm that began Wednesday night.
Tecumseh Mayor Gary McNamara, who declared a state of emergency on Thursday, says 10 per cent of households in his town were affected by rain.
McNamara told a news conference Friday afternoon that all pumping equipment in town was working at capacity but the rain was too much to handle.
He said that no drainage system would be able to handle close to 200 millimetres of rain within 15 hours.