{"id":536904,"date":"2026-03-15T00:09:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T00:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/536904\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T00:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T00:09:15","slug":"officials-recommend-residents-sign-up-for-the-citys-flood-alerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/536904\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials recommend residents sign up for the city’s flood alerts"},"content":{"rendered":"

“One of the main things we want to get across to residents is to avoid putting yourself in any dangerous situations in the first place, really avoid any activity near the waterways,” Gallagher said.<\/p>\n

Lessons learned from 2024 flooding<\/p>\n

The city has learned a lot of lessons from torrential rainfall nearly two years ago that caused massive flooding<\/a>, road closures and power outages.<\/p>\n

On July 16, 2024, and then, a month later, on Aug. 17 and 18, two record-breaking storms unleashed 280 millimetres of rain on Mississauga, trapping people on flooded roads, running over the edges of creeks, and soaking into buildings. The larger Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area was also affected.<\/p>\n

\"Tyler<\/p>\n

\nJuly 2024 flooding in the Greater Toronto Area. (Tyler Hamilton\/The Weather Network)<\/p>\n

Last year, city council approved an action plan to ensure Mississauga’s stormwater system can continue to manage intense rain, ensuring the city is prepared for climate change-fuelled storms by pouring money into storm-water infrastructure upgrades.<\/p>\n

The action plan’s goals include implementing flood mitigation initiatives and hiring additional staff to monitor and maintain the stormwater system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“One of the main things we want to get across to residents is to avoid putting yourself in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194297],"tags":[49,48,55405],"class_list":{"0":"post-536904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mississauga","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mississauga"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}