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A woman gets back into her flooded car on Lakeshore Boulevard in Toronto, July 8 2013.
A severe thunderstorm caused flash flooding in
Toronto, cutting power to at least 300,000 in Canada's largest
city, shutting down subways, forcing some people to cling to trees
and leaving about 1,400 passengers stranded for hours on a commuter
train filled with gushing water.
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A train is stranded on flooded tracks in Toronto on Monday, July 8, 2013.
Canada's national weather service said some parts of the city
had been drenched with more than 3.9 inches of
rain in the Monday evening storm, easily beating the previous
one-day rainfall record of 1.4 inches in 2008.
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Stranded passengers are rescued from a flooded Train in Toronto, July 8, 2013.
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A train is stranded on flooded tracks in Toronto, July 8, 2013.
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Water rises in a train stranded on flooded tracks in Toronto, July 8, 2013.
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Stranded passengers are rescued from a flooded train in Toronto, July 8, 2013.
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Stranded passengers are rescued from a flooded train in Toronto, July 8, 2013.
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A woman gets back in her car in flood water on Lakeshore West during a storm in Toronto on Monday, July 8, 2013.
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Stranded passengers are rescued from a flooded train in Toronto, July 8, 2013.
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Stranded passengers await rescue on a flooded train in Toronto, July 8, 2013.
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A tow truck driver floats a car out of the Don Valley Parkway in Toronto, July 8 2013.
