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Officials are warning Ontario residents to be ready for at least 72 hours without power and are predicting that some areas could see 50 + millimetres of rain and winds reaching 100 kilometres or more.

Below are links with information and helpful tools about staying safe during extreme storms:

1. Red Cross Urges Canadians to be prepared for severe storms
2. Ontarians should prepare for potential flooding of Hurricane Sandy
3. Tips for preparing your home for the effects of Hurricane Sandy

Please also remember that anything in your outdoor space that is not restrained and can be picked up by the wind should be put away. If you have not yet winterized your rain barrel now is a good time. Visit our maintenance page for instructions on how to do this.  –  Remember that rain barrels may burst as a result of expanding ice if not emptied and winterized.

Please stay safe.

– RainBarrel.ca

We partner with non-profit organizations to host fundraising truckload rain barrel sales. Visit our partnership page to learn more about raising funds for your group or cause.

You really do need to be careful where you leave your rain barrel. With the winter coming, RainBarrel.ca reminds you to maintain your rain barrel and keep it eligible for our warranty.

Read maintenance instructions and see our video describing them HERE.

Enjoy your barrel for years to come by properly maintaining and winterizing.

We are planning for 2013 and have many non-profit partners planning along with us! We’ve got 47 of them getting ready to fundraise for various needs at their schools, churches, eco-groups and elsewhere in their communities.

This year, we are focusing on strengthening our partners and helping them to fill their trucks to overflowing with pre-ordered rain barrels. We are revamping our resources to assist our non-profit partners every step of the way.

There’s still room for more partners: See our website at www.RainBarrel.ca/fundraise to join in on the fun(d)raising!

CBC’s The Current focused on the E-coli-tainted beef recall and featured Bruce Davidson from Walkerton speaking about the same strain of e-coli that infected the town’s drinking water in 2000. Walkerton and Brockton have held rain barrel sales for several years as part of their water stewardship program of advocacy and education. In the broadcast, Bruce focused on looking for changes and results in any enquiries rather than finding blame in the beef recall. Bruce says “our community thrives today…because we tackled this problem head-on [and Walkerton has become] a bastion of knowledge about the safety of drinking water “, sharing this knowledge across Canada. We hope Canada learns from the current recall too. Listen to The Current episode HERE

Some of our non-profit partners are participating in a Pop-Up Garden Centre in downtown Toronto this weekend and next. It’s a free community event at 109 Ossington Ave. on May 26/27 and June 2/3 from 10 AM – 4 PM. There will be workshops and demos from gardening experts, landscape architects and urban farmers as well as a marketplace selling plants, flowers, herbs, soil and fresh produce. Come check it out!