We are safe and the power stayed on.  The lemur headed out to class just as the storm broke last night but turned back due to knee deep water on out street.  There are advantages to living on the tenth floor!  Elsewhere things got pretty rough.

Do not attempt to drive or take a bus or streetcar in downtown Toronto this evening.  Large parts of the core are closed for a film shoot and Lower Jarvis is closed for construction.  I've only ever seen traffic so bad during a major winter storm or a power outage.  It's a real mess.

I was out exploring a couple of new bike routes in the east end of the city this morning. Things started off OK. I took the Waterfront Trail to the point where one can turn north onto the UoT Scarborough campus and followed the loop of trails swinging north and back west to end up on Lawrence Avenue. From their a linking route on side streets got me to what looked on the map like a hydro easement trail heading southwest. It was but it was still under construction in places which was rather irritating and made for some tedious detours. Then I got a flat and had to spend about 45 minutes changing a tyre tube. Then I discovered that the next stage of my route was impassable owing to bridge repairs. By this time it was very hot and I was fairly fed up. I could see from the map that I wasn't too far from Kennedy station so I headed there, took the subway to Sherbourne and then coasted home down the Sherbourne bike lane.I guess had I finished my planned route it would have been close to 70km. As it was I did about 45km.