The vendor’s website was brought down by a crush of barrel bargain huntersSee more Toronto Sun on Google — save as a Preferred SourceThis advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLYToronto City Hall can’t say it wasn’t warned about the rain barrels. Article contentThe second round of a rain barrel subsidy program was a washout on Thursday when the vendor’s website was crushed by “overwhelming demand,” the city said Friday morning. “Surely it was predictable, and predictable a second time,” he told the Toronto Sun early Friday evening. Councillor Paul Ainslie took to X on Thursday evening to post about the vendor’s technical trouble, adding: “Oops.”