July 17, 2024 09:46 AM IST
The Canadian singer-rapper has shared a video of Drake’s house getting flooded. He posted the clip and joked that an ‘espresso martini would be better’ in running water.
Drake took to Instagram Stories on Wednesday to share a video of the house he calls The Embassy. The clip shows brown water spilling from a portion of the Canadian singer-rapper’s home in Toronto as the city is hit by record rainfall from three major storms, causing power outages and stranding people. Also read: Drake’s ‘goons’ allegedly attack Rick Ross and crew at Vancouver music festival
Drake shares video of flooding in his home
Drake joked on Instagram that the running water “better be an espresso martini.” “Better be an espresso martini,” he wrote alongside the video, which showed him and another man trying to clean up the mess.
More information on the Toronto floods
According to the report, more rain fell in a four-hour period than the city’s average rainfall for the month of July. The heavy rainfall affected highways, streets and hundreds of thousands of residents, causing power outages. Toronto police said part of the Don Valley Parkway, which leads from the northern part of the city into the downtown area, was closed due to flooding. They also said part of Lakeshore Boulevard, which runs along the shore of Lake Ontario, was closed due to flooding.
Toronto Fire Services said it rescued 14 people from a flooded highway. Flooding has also disrupted life in many other parts of the Toronto area, with police warning of flooding on some stretches of highways and urging people to remain vigilant.
Toronto’s fifth rainiest day on record
According to toronto starThe Canadian city received about 98 mm of rain on Tuesday, and more is expected, making it the fifth wettest day on record (tracking since 1938), Environment Canada reported just after 5 p.m. Toronto Pearson International Airport typically receives 74 mm of rain during the month of July ‘We’ve had more than a month’s worth of rain in one day,’ said Trudy Kidd, a meteorologist with Environment Canada.
With agency input
