My heart goes out to you on this, my mother's basement used to flood every year until she finally purchased a sub pump. I can remember many hours of lugging furniture up and down stairs, wading through foul smelling water that was ankle deep. Then the waiting, and the smell of mildew on everything, as insurance people investigated the claim and then the replacement of carpet and such. Really a rather long and over all frustrating process. What a way to return from vacation.

The tornado was in Fergus, not Toronto.

True. The Greater Toronto Area was however on Tornado alert, thats why my statement was in the form of a question. Still, my area had alot of floods, the neighbors had flooding in their basements too, and the hail and strong winds knocked a nearby tree onto the house across from mine.

Yay crazy ass weather in Toronto!