Toilet Spurts Out Water and Floods Ottawa Resident's Apartment After Storm

Toilet spurts out water post-storm and floods Ottawa resident's apartmentThis video shared by an Ottawa resident shows what appears to be murky sewage water gushing from their bathroom toilet, flooding the apartment after a thunderstorm Thursday.Thursday's flash floodsDeven Raval, owner of PuroClean, called it "mayhem." He said his company normally deals with five or so calls per day. But this has been different.

"We're not talking portions of basements — we're talking entire basement," he said. "Six to eight inches of water came in, which is quite severe … that's a huge volume of water kicking back."Richard Green, CEO of Ottawa's franchise of Paul Davis restoration, is seeing the same flood of calls. He said about 100 came in before noon on Friday, and he was expecting about 50 more.

"People want to just think it's storm sewer and it's water runoff," he said. "But when the storm sewers overflow, they do have the possibility of mixing in with the sewage." "It's not ideal, because what we want to do is we want to get there as quickly as possible," he said. "There's all kinds of other damage that can happen if you leave these things too long — things like mould."

Green said residents can take action to limit the damage while they're waiting: use a wet-dry vac with "good sucking ability" to remove as much standing water as possible, separate wet from dry possessions and open up windows to "allow the house to breathe."

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