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On October 15th, 1954, Lizzie Hardy walks the children she babysits - David McBride and his kid sister, Suzie - home from school through the pouring rain to their new house near the Humber River in Weston, Ontario. Soon the children realize this is no ordinary rainstorm: first Lizzie notices the river rolling over its banks and into the back yard, then the McBrides call to say the roads are flooded and they are having trouble getting home. Soon the lights go out, then the phones go dead. In a few short hours, the freezing water had invaded the house - and it's rising fast! Based on true accounts of that terrifying night when Hurricane Hazel hit southern Ontario.

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