Cloverfield in Toronto

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is what people up at 4am witnessed in Toronto on Sunday morning. A propane storage facility, in the middle of a residential area (city planning ftw), blew up. Of course I am a very heavy sleeper so I didn’t wake up to it (8km or 5mi away), but a few of my clients who I have spoken to said that they woke up to what they thought were bombs going off. I this day in age, I guess this is what people think of first. My mother, who was in Niagara-On-The-Lake, Niagara Falls (about 70km or 45mi away) saw the fire burning in the sky. She said it looked like the sun coming up from the north. When I got up in the morning, I looked out of my window and thought that it was going to pour with rain. It was just the smoke cloud. It totally enveloped the sky over my house.

 

 

Now this may just seem like a run-of-the-mill industrial accident, but if you think about it for a second, there were houses across the street. Can you imagine sleeping soundly in your house and then being blown out of bed by an explosion 100 feet away? The entire neighbourhood was evacuated, and people were bussed to a shelter for the day. One guy I saw on the news was barefoot in a robe. That would suck. There were huge pieces of tanker truck found in a nearby cemetary.

 

 

The highway was closed for the day from where I live to the other side of the blast area. Since this is basically the only highway going through the city, it caused all of the people coming back from trips to be severely delayed. A lot of people had to take an extra day because they couldn’t get into or through the city.

 

 

Check out this video of the explosion, just click on the video named, "after the explosion" on the sidebar. The big one is at 1:32. You can actually see the shockwave from the blast, and the subsequent blast to the camera man. Crazy shit.