McDonald’s parking lot flooded yet again Tuesday in Gravenhurst

GRAVENHURST — A suppertime downpour Tuesday that drenched the town here had vehicles up to their hoods in puddles.

Social media posts by Cyndi Culbert show cars and trucks driving through small lakes.

One particularly bad hit area was the dip in the parking lot in front of the McDonald’s Restaurant.

Drive-thru customers had to navigate a notoriously deep three-foot water course coming and going.

That location at Southgate Plaza, where there’s a Home Hardware, Giant Tiger and Petro-Can gas bar — has been a problem for years and has never been addressed.

The plaza is next to the Kinsmen Park, which the town owns and many residents complain is part of the problem for not providing proper drainage.

Can another election year go by without a fix — and not another vague promise to correct the dangerous situation?

It was much the same in Huntsville, where flooding is also a big problem downtown.

The rain followed a 4:45 p.m. Edt, Environment Canada meteorologists’ memo noting they were tracking a “severe thunderstorm capable of producing very strong wind gusts and torrential rain.”

They noted “radar continues to show a stationary line of thunderstorms which are expected to stream across portions of central ontario for the rest of the afternoon and into the evening hours. There have been reports of rainfall in excess of 50 mm up to 4 pm in some locations.”

See their map below.