Media Mondays are in Town!
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Hot on the heels of the new Subway Sundays series at The Toronto Traveler is Media Mondays. This series will take a weekly look at one news story from that week that I found relevant to tourists in the city, helpful to people that are new to Toronto or have not lived here for a long time or just plain interesting for one reason or another. It’s my eventual hope that this continual look into current themes and goings on within the city of
This week’s winner is a piece done by City News called How To Drive Safely Following A Flood.
What did I find interesting about the piece? Well, essentially this is a type of reporting that you don’t see very often in the media. Other news outlets such as CBC and The Toronto Star did cover the weather problems that have been going on in the city in recent times, but they also neglected to mention on a large scale what people visiting the city could do to help themselves. City News has a way of covering the news that lends itself to this type of helpful article and that is one of the things that I like about that news organization.
All of the tips are good, but their main tip of “Don’t drive unless absolutely necessary” is definitely something to take notice of. Stay away from flooded areas unless you absolutely have to go (and if you read this blog because you’re visiting the city, chances are you can cancel an event and just chill out at the hotel for awhile) and also take note of the last two tips which state what one and two feet of water can respectively do to most automobiles. SUVs aren’t immune to this type of thing either, so be very wary if you need to go somewhere that is in a flooded area.
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Wow! Not driving unless absolutely necessary is good advice. I’m sure that people with SUVs would think that they are safe. This sounds like it’s going to be a good feature!
Yeah, in Toronto people with SUVs are a bit more controlled because every winter they get a reminder that they aren’t invincible, but people visiting the city might not be aware of that fact just yet
I hope it will, thanks for the compliment!