Red hill valley parkway, Hamilton Ontario, after Storm July 26 2009

[SoundsLikePurple]

historical human meddling dominator archetype , whos neck do i wring out for this travesty seriously who gets the finger, wash that useless peice of slab off my life the turd it is how dumb say it however mmny times its true wont change the sickening fact we trample over over our inheritance and squander all history next yr / will refine theimpact of that to caome

[aliensarereal666]

steel city baby!

[buffalomedicine]

People try to conquer or manipulate nature instead of working with it,,,,,here is the results, plus bulldozing 5 indian burial grounds and paving over them did not help out.

[Epicfilms4]

I remember that day my basement was flooded

[johnny666999er]

just a thought - is this really the worst? In some places people die when the rain comes - stop complaining - a lot of water, WOW, maybe some basements were flooded - in the grand scheme of things, on that thought, why am I even bothering commenting.

[flash178]

@johnny666999er

Unfortunately it rained a lot.

Really, lots of damage.

And I made a video

For real, it was bad.

And yes it was alot of water.

Gosh this is a long comment.

[CapitalgCapitals]

I Love Hamilton...!!

[CapitalgCapitals]

I miss Hmailton so much...!! If I had a choice of anywhere in the World to be right now...It would be there...!! Who ever thought somebody would say that...?!

[forrstfire]

i was driving on this during the storm :S

[WTFGames13]

Dah! Do you think they need a larger storm water storage tank for the in-fluent to the waste water treatment plant? No, Its better to restrict the flow the to the plant. Better yet, leave it like it is. It will created more jobs when the basements flood and people file law suits. We'll build this road twice, Yeah!! Hamilton Sucks! and stinks for good reason!

[7711ish]

These things happen in this city because the city is corrupt. This city allows new house builders to finish a house before submitting a permit. When the buyer discovers the defects it's to late to do anything. Business as usual in Hamilton. Screw the citizens, it creates more jobs down the line. Hamilton is an Orwellian run society. The sign entering Hamilton should read " Welcome to Hamilton, we know what you're thinking. Population 666ick. Watch"advanced nonlethal weapons" for explanation.

[twizz420]

@7711ish Most of the bullshit that has happened to this city recently is because of Mayor DiIanni... He's such a fucking corrupt piece of shit... When he won a while ago and won (2002 I think?) Me and my friends went out and smashed some of his signs...

Then about 2 minivans carrying 12 men in total jumped out with crowbars and bats, threatening us that if we didn't get in the van then they would "beat us to death". Not kidding. It was only me and two friends, back when we were only 14!

We ran

[7711ish]

@twizz420 You're right brother!! We don't live in a democracy, it's a plutocracy!! Peace out.

[teeray11]

i guess thats what you get when you build a highway in a river bed. A highway built just to help sell the sprawl housing suburbs built at the top.

[7711ish]

@teeray11 No, this is what you get when the city is corrupted by evil, instead of good will towards others.

[cyberguy1234]

I don't live in hamilton but i agree the red hill valley was a good place before the highway, City hall and the city hamilton made the mistake, And now they have to deal with come hell or high water, It's sick that so much greenspace is being destored.

[twizz420]

@cyberguy1234 I wrote several e-mails and made several dozen calls to Mayor DiIanni's office when I heard about the Red Hill Expressway being put in... I was told that someone would contact me for information but needless to say, I got nowhere.

Nobody in this fucking city gives a shit about the citizens. It's worse than the US here, and THEY are the ones known for political corruption? Fuck.

[Spidapalooza]

Wow this part of the Red Hill Valley is literally 2 minutes away from where I used to live. I remember the Red Hill Creek as being fun to play in now I'm upset that it was turned into a highway.

[amcanmike]

WOW

[torontomapleleafer]

I remember that day as we were one of the last cars off that highway before they closed it. Craziest storm I have ever seen. I'm from Barrie and we get some nasties here, but nothing like I saw down that day in Hamilton for a anniversarie I was going to. Driving into Hamilton on Highway 6 was what hell would be like if it was made of water from what I heard from my uncle that day.

[7711ish]

Hamilton is an Orwellian run society  No Joke!!

[kanukster]

The city planners that O.K'.d the final plans all stated that this was the "Best". Not two years later. EPIC FAIL! Their plans called for the surrounding valley's to be used as 'over flow basin's', in the advent of Severe rain fall. The problem with this plan was that once full, the water's would continue flooding the low lands around King street. The other problems where that when flooding happens, all small critters living in the vally's would drown! Nice fucking planning.

[kanukster]

We fought against this stupid HWY for years. I was born and raised in east end. Montmorency dr. I lived their for 40 years. This HWY was a criminal act, perpetrated by the CRIMINAL Mayer Di Ianni. He broke election laws, and was found GIULTY! As soon as he was in office he payed back his campaign contributors with Contracts to build this HWY. Cost est. $300 mill. Cost over run. $200mill. Developers lobbied for decades to go ahead with this needless, wasteful, criminal act.

[7711ish]

Hamilton Sucks!! It's corrupt. That's why these things happen. Its an Orwellian society. You may not like to hear it but it is the truth.

[zac1efron4lover]

bc its called Steel city is wear they make and over load on steel

[WatchMeGo99]

i saw you film that!

[anewbeggining21]

I remember that day! Seems Hamilton doesn't get as many super severe thunderstorms or insane amounts of lake effect snow like other areas and cities around us. BUT, when we get do get it, it seems we get absolutely screwed!!

July 26 2009 thunderstorms brought I think they said 200mm (20cm or 8inches) of rain in about 4 hours!?

February 13 & 14 2007 winter storm and lake effect snowsqualls off lake Ontario brought 50-70cm of snow depending on where you were in the city!

Pretty harsh stuff!

[anewbeggining21]

Kings Forrest (right beside the Red Hill Valley at base of mountain) Lots of bush parties in the summer and beer bogganing in the winter! For me at least!

[soupstyles]

Hamiltonians got seriously conned on this one.

"It'll make traffic flow better."

Right. That's why LA's got such great traffic flow with all those expressways. Urban expressways make traffic worse because they spread cities out and force people to drive. It's one of the most well understood facts in the social sciences. Hamiltonians need to visit other cities more.

Follow the money. Sprawl developers are by far the biggest campaign contributers to politicians.

[RaineXHero]

Actually, it cut the time for my parents to get to work in half. That's pretty damn amazing considering they work in Winona.

[soupstyles]

Yeah, I'm sure the DVP in Toronto improved travel times the first few years it was built. But it's a parking lot for most of the day now. Expressways make traffic worse. I can send you a list of academic articles that have proven this. But all you have to do is open your eyes and don't be so simple minded. Show me an urban expressway more than five years old that's not completely clogged at rush hour.

[soupstyles]

And Winona? Do you notice that there is a shitload of car dependent subdivisions being built there, and on Stoney Creek mountain? Do the math. That's people living ridiculously far from work, like your parents, adding traffic to that corridor. That's why all the pro-expressway politicians got their election money from sprawl housing developers.

The only way to make city travel more convenient (and green) is to develeop mass transit, and stop suburban sprawl. Walking, biking.

[RaineXHero]

Why does our city fail so?

[IPGSXR905]

because we intrust it too foolish, incompetant, morons who think building a water funnel like the expressway will boost the economy. The engineers couldn't even paint road lines correctly... damn fools!

[TetaTooty]

Nice vid flash ;)

[porslynprincess]

i saw that

[shaboobooboobooD]

Hamilton Ontario Canada = Epic fail....

They cant do anything right in this city lol than they go and make a highway that's even more of a fail, and the spokes man sits there on tv saying that the red hill is built for the volume of rain and floods.... 2 monkeys could run this city better than the people running it now!

[nilovroman]

Di Ianni got shit done better. But Hamilton has potential to pwn.

[anewbeggining21]

What do you mean?

[LonelyBoyProductions]

I'm Glad to see that!!

maybe now theyll realise their mistake in building this expressway and messing with nature to reroute the redhill creek, which has been flowing here since... i dont know, forever!?!

i hate when they mess with nature like that.

just shows you that whatever you do, the water is gona flow where it wants to, and dosnt like to be rerouted.

[ammaretto]

That was a crazy day! we were there on sunday at 2pm...had to go backwards on redhill in the pouring rain & try to find the king st exit....Scary!

[wrapasponge]

oh man, that's crazy. i live right by there.

[CTM1978]

The bridge you were on, what street was that?

[flash178]

When I was standing on the bridge, I was standing on the King St. Overpass facing south.

[lolnoob1374]

lmao my friend lives soo close to their lmao

[CapitalgCapitals]

@CTM1978 Barton Street...

[aliensarereal666]

@CTM1978 he down at barton!