Toronto Star: Michael D’Andrea had no notion that August day just how wrathful the afternoon would turn, how calamitous, what an effect it would have on the city’s future.
It was an off-duty day for the director of Toronto’s Water Infrastructure Management, who had planned a pleasant Niagara-on-the-Lake getaway with his wife in what was a hot, dry summer.
“We had lunch, we walked by the lake,’ D’Andrea recounts of the pretty afternoon. And then came the reckoning: “I looked toward Toronto and said, ‘Oh my…