Yet another crash has been reported to the Bulldog this afternoon. It happened just before 4pm on September 29th, 2017 at the intersection of Bayview Avenue and Parkhurst Blvd/Soudan Ave. The Mercedes Benz sustained damage when a smaller car, reportedly crashed into it. The airbag in the Benz was deployed. Bits and pieces of the smaller vehicle can be seen littered on the road. (Photos: Ian Smith)
Yes, that's hail out there #Toronto! #leaside #davisvillevillage #thunderstorm pic.twitter.com/djbpv0t9qG
— SBayview (@SBayview) September 29, 2017
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Quite the hail storm in Toronto. pic.twitter.com/mrH2aM9pFP
— Lee Hillman (@leehillman) September 29, 2017
The mother of #hail storms just passed outside my window #Toronto #eastside @weathernetwork pic.twitter.com/CQeR4Eyi6X
— Eva Voinigescu (@EvaVoinigescu) September 29, 2017
This weekend’s Bayview Leaside BIA’s Apple Fest will see their 1st Apple Chalk Art Competition! Come out Saturday, September 30th and draw your heart out for a chance to win the top prize of $200 cash! Starting at noon artists will be picked on a first come first serve basis, with all chalk supplied. Be sure to come to the Bayview Leaside BIA tent that will be set up on the North West Corner of Bayview and Millwood to sign up, grab your supplies and be directed to your sidewalk area. Our judges, The Bayview Leaside BIA Pixies, will be announcing the winners at 4:30pm on Saturday.
3:13 PM EDT Thursday 07 September 2017
Weather advisory in effect for:
City of Toronto
Conditions will be favourable for the development of funnel clouds today.
Scattered thunderstorms across Southern Ontario will continue into this evening.
Some of the thunderstorms will bring dime sized hail, wind gusts to 70 km/h and frequent lightning.
Funnel clouds may also make a brief appearance this afternoon in this unseasonably cool and unstable air mass.
Thunderstorms are expected to dissipate later this evening.
These types of funnel clouds are generated by weak rotation under rapidly growing clouds or weak thunderstorms. This weak rotation is normally not a danger near the ground. However, there is a chance that this rotation could intensify and become a weak landspout tornado.
Treat any funnel cloud sighting seriously. Should a funnel cloud develop nearby, prepare to take shelter. These funnel clouds usually appear with little or no warning.
Please continue to monitor alerts and forecasts issued by Environment Canada. To report severe weather, send an email to ec.cpio-tempetes-ospc-storms.ec@canada.ca or tweet reports using #ONStorm.
Much-loved crossing guard Mona Piper has served the kids, parents and staff of Maurice Cody School just around the corner from her home for 43 years. Now she has suffered an injury and fallen ill as well. She must retire. She spoke with Tom Hayes of Global News.
Don’t worry, these child-sized figures are not aliens or something from another dimension. They are part of a marketing stunt for the upcoming Stephen King movie, It. Much of the movie was filmed in Toronto and is scheduled to be released September 7th. The stunt has its own hashtag: #WheresGeorgieTO. The Warner Brothers Canada Instagram account states, “Have you found Georgie? Post your photo with #WheresGeorgieTO for a chance to #WIN a private screening of #ITMovie!” Get snapping Toronto. If you dare.
Several blocks of south Leaside were blocked off from traffic Tuesday and many people were evacuated when crews replacing the water main broke a natural gas line Residents said the people in the block of Rumsey Rd. between Crofton Rd. and Parkhurst Blvd were ordered out of their homes. One woman, the owner of 182 Rumsey, was walking her dog only to hear sirens and rush home. Police would not let her into the street until she told them her ten-year old son was still in the home. She said the rupture occurred outside her front door. Police ordered a large bus to the scene to accommodate those who needed to rest for the estimated three-hour repair job to be done. No injuries were reported.
GAS LEAK: Rumsey Rd + Crofton Rd~Leak is capped~Homes still are evacuated & road closures still in effect till further notice #GO1562846
— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) August 29, 2017
The Bayview-Leaside BIA Pixies are celebrating Monday as they use their new water source for the first time. As always, we thank the Pixies for their time and hard work spent keeping Bayview beautiful! Previous: The strange new addition to Bayview and Belsize
TIFF will also feature a special presentation and Canadian Premiere of Downsizing, starring Matt Damon and Kristen Wiig. Matt, Kristen and crew were spotted in Leaside last summer filming some scenes from this film.
DOWNSIZING: Matt Damon headlines a cast that includes Kristen Wiig, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau, Laura Dern, Jason Sudeikis, Alec Baldwin, and Neil Patrick Harris in Alexander Payne’s sci-fi social satire about a man who chooses to shrink himself (literally) to simplify his life.
See you on the red carpet!
Oregon was the place to be this Monday as the full eclipse of the sun by the moon swept across the US beginning about 9.30 a.m. Pacific time. The tiny hamlet of Madras, Oregon welcomed thousands of visitors with all their paraphernalia for the moment. You can see the path of the eclipse in the NBC video below. The excitement of the full eclipse is heard and seen in the CNN video. In most parts of the upper Pacific, McDonald’s gave employees three minutes off (see sign) to watch the eclipse. A kind of McEclipse. Donald and Melania Trump were outside the White House with the necessary eye shades. Brides planned wedding events around the rare event. In Canada, a partial eclipse was visible in Vancouver but Toronto, where skies were to be somewhat darkened, it seemed way too normal.
