Column: Flooding isn’t just about rain – it’s about our choices

As I sit writing this column, rain is teeming down. The fields need it and I know some farmers who have spent the past few weeks irrigating; or ‘irritating’ as we called it in my younger days. But you likely heard the city of St. Catharines was recently drenched by 250 millimetres of rain. The storms unleashed “two to three…