Heavy Rain Unmoors Dock in Lake Ontario

Heavy rain has ripped a dock in Navy Flats Park, Oaksville, sending the dock and about twenty boats from six to thirteen meters in size drifting into Lake Ontario, at about 13:30 of Tuesday sixteen July. The runaway boats and tens of thousands of dollars of damage were only a slice of the chaos on Tuesday, when the nearby area grounded to a halt as nearly 100 mm of rain overwhelmed its infrastructure with about 170,000 homes and businesses losing power as subway stations and highways flooded. Oakville Marine Search and Rescue assisted the boaters in retrieving the boats with a second crew coming out to help.  There were no injuries, and for the most part, the boats avoided any significant damage.  

But the damage could have been magnitudes greater, with the outcome being very different if this happened on a weekend, when hundreds of people would have been around the harbor. Instead, no boats sank, and collision damage was at a minimum.