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Canada Day Flooded the Capital
Yesterday was Canada Day in the capital, with heatwave and thunderstorm warnings.
As an Indigenous person in Canada, I do not really partake in Canada Day celebrations anymore. It celebrates the assimilation of Indigenous people.
So Canada Day was just another normal day for me!
I celebrated Solstice already.
I think we were all prepared for the heatwaves, but none of us were prepared for the thunderstorm.
We were given weather warnings for them anyhow.
There were floods everywhere, power was out everywhere too, and basements and cars were flooded. Since it was Canada Day, people took out their canoes and decided to have fun in the rainwater.
I do not know why we have been getting floods over the last few years.
All I did was walk to the store to get my children dinner for Canada Day, only for my sandal to get so wet from the floodwater that it literally rolled up my leg.
I tried to get it off but couldn’t.
I ended up ripping it off and walking around barefoot.
It was very awkward, and there was nothing open to buy another pair of sandals, so I could have something on my feet.
Today, I guess everything is being restored.
It also seems our former prime minister, Justin Trudeau, who is now dating Katy Perry, was at our main Canada Day event with our current Prime Minister, Mark Carney.
They both hugged it out, and I guess, earlier in the morning, Mark Carney was flipping pancakes at an event in Barhaven.
Retail stores are normally closed on Canada Day, but ended up opening for Emergencies.
