{"id":719798,"date":"2026-06-22T20:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T20:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/719798\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T20:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T20:12:12","slug":"severe-thunderstorms-trigger-flooding-outages-in-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/719798\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe thunderstorms trigger flooding, outages in Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MONTREAL (WCAX) &#8211; Heavy rainfall caused major flooding in several parts of Montreal over the weekend, leaving widespread damage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">More than 21,000 customers were without power Saturday evening following severe thunderstorms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The flooding overwhelmed the sewer system in some parts of the city, turning streets into lakes. A number of major streets were closed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials across the West Island advised people to limit their water use&#8211; like showers and washing machines&#8211; to avoid further sewer backups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The city temporarily closed down many buildings, including a library and cultural center.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL (WCAX) &#8211; Heavy rainfall caused major flooding in several parts of Montreal over the weekend, leaving widespread&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,1023,1679,3432,3,2433,24338,79,38994,34470,38995,27076,68894,34752,2986],"class_list":["post-719798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-flooding","tag-floods","tag-montreal","tag-news","tag-quebec","tag-rain","tag-science","tag-severe","tag-storms","tag-thunderstorms","tag-vermont","tag-vt","tag-wcax","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}