Toledo, Ohio the Venice of the Midwest

First, the snark, since this is the Internet:

bq. Blade - "Fight against blight needs fresh ideas":http://www.toledoblade.com/Keith-Burris/2014/06/16/Fight-against-blight-needs-fresh-ideas.html - _"City's abandonment, ugliness must be reversed"_

bq. Fresh idea: Toledo should transition toward being the Venice of the Midwest.


--Douglas Rd near Laskey on June 25, 2014--
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2.20 inches of rain fell in 90-minutes over West Toledo this afternoon, swamping some roads, during rush hour traffic. With that much rain falling in a short period of time, some street flooding is expected, I guess. Toledo Express Airport averages 3.57 inches of rainfall for the entire month of June.

This area must be a swamp because the anti-mosquito truck sprayed  our neighborhood last weekend.

For some reason, the above stretch of Douglas Rd typically floods when we get a "toad-strangler.":http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/toad-strangler  The Douglas Rd flood zone is located by the Douglas Square Apartments, north of Gracewood, and just south of Laskey. I heard that Sylvania Ave flooded by the Family Dollar store near Drummond, and that's also a usual flooded spot.


br. *++Today is June 25.++*  Same thing happened six years ago today.

Toledo Talk - June 25, 2008 - "Heavy rain and the usual street flooding":http://toledotalk.com/cgi-bin/tt.pl/article/18254/Heavy_rain_and_the_usual_street_flooding_-_June_2008

--Douglas Rd near Laskey on June 25, 2008--
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br. Toledo experienced a rough stretch of several torrential rainstorms during the June-July period from 2006 through 2008. I assumed it was some kind of "Opal Covey curse":http://toledotalk.com/cgi-bin/tt.pl/article/19617/Toledo_Marina_District_July_2008_Update#August_2008 because we chose Uncle Carty in 2005. 

Past Toledo Talk threads and comments:

* June 26, 2006 - "Toledo Flooded ... With Questions":http://www.toledotalk.com/cgi-bin/comments.pl/26/2630 that pointed to a June 25, 2006 Blade "story":http://www.toledoblade.com/frontpage/2006/06/25/Storm-water-project-little-comfort-to-homeowners.html - the Toledo flooding rains occurred on June 21-22, 2006.
*  July 12, 2006 - "More Flooding Today - Are the Waterway Improvements Working?":http://www.toledotalk.com/cgi-bin/comments.pl/12/2711 that pointed to a historymike blog "posting":http://historymike.blogspot.com/2006/07/heavy-rains-bring-new-round-of-toledo.html
*  July 14, 2006 "comment":http://www.toledotalk.com/cgi-bin/comments.pl/12/2711#32539 about another day of street flooding

--Douglas Rd near Laskey on July 14, 2006--
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* June 3, 2007 - "Deluge and usual street flooding":http://www.toledotalk.com/cgi-bin/comments.pl/20/3843

--Douglas Rd near Laskey on June 3, 2007--
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*  July 2, 2008 "comment":http://toledotalk.com/cgi-bin/tt.pl/article/18254#18668 about street flooding
* July 8, 2008 "comment":http://toledotalk.com/cgi-bin/tt.pl/article/18254#19030 about more street flooding

The next time that little bar/restaurant along Douglas near Laskey changes ownership, it should have a nautical theme.



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