Rains refused to take a break in the latter half of August, drenching the area for eight straight days. While not all locations had updated reports, the numbers we do have are jaw-dropping. I recorded 125 millimetres in the past week, and Portage East topped that with 129 millimetres. Article content

The real soaker came on Wednesday, August 20. From 7 p.m. until 1 a.m., I measured 68 millimetres while Portage East recorded an astounding 83. In just six hours, it felt less like a prairie thunderstorm and more like a prairie monsoon. If anyone needed a reminder of how rainfall can vary even across the Portage area, this was it. Different storm cells created pockets of flooding so intense you could almost imagine Lake Agassiz reforming overnight.

As if the water wasn’t enough, the storm b

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