disbelief the fact that it's happened again and so soon for Edwin steel Saturday felt like deja vu record-breaking rain in Miss Saga less than a month after a catastrophic flood in the GTA see these are geophysics instruments and those were submerged yesterday yes these were all floating around my shop yesterday floating around 18 Ines of water the cost of replacing Steel's mining equipment and his submerged car it's well into figures uh could be as high as 800,000 but steel wasn't alone We rescued over 22 individuals in regards to water rescue and then we had eight elevator rescues that were also related to water the images speak for themselves but so do the numbers Toronto Pearson received 128 millim of rain on Saturday breaking a record held since 2013 for the highest amount of rainfall ever recorded in a single day on average Pearson receives around 78 mm of rain in the entirety of August Saturday storm More Than A month's worth of rain in the span of just a couple of hours I'm not surprised Professor Annabella bonada says municipalities should prepare for more frequent severe weather events if they don't the cost to taxpayers could be huge every dollar and catastrophic losses that are paid out by the insurance company the municipality pays $3 to4 do according to bonata July storm in Toronto cost an estimated $1 billion for insurance companies so 4 billion to taxpayers as for Saturday Storm still too early to say especially with more rain falling Sunday the assessment of damage actually begins right away and then there's a longer term evaluation and determination of what steps and measures need to be taken going forward berett says municipalities need to start updating storm water systems to withstand more water and avoid velopment around water bodies if they want to take a proactive rather than reactive approach new Global News Missa