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Title: Better than an alarm clock. Explosions in Toronto Post by: Oban on August 10, 2008, 02:25:29 AM Woke up to a loud explosion this morning, shook my house. Lots of secondary explosions, very little news but lots of people posting on local forums.
(http://www.clisham.com-a.googlepages.com/000ry0.jpg) and (http://www.clisham.com-a.googlepages.com/2748468377_f1ec0103cf.jpg) Title: Re: Better than an alarm clock. Explosion in Toronto Post by: schild on August 10, 2008, 02:26:52 AM Link to the forums you saw this at?
Title: Re: Better than an alarm clock. Explosion in Toronto Post by: Oban on August 10, 2008, 02:29:52 AM I will post the safe for work forum...
http://www.redflagdeals.com/forums/showthread.php?t=621574 (http://www.redflagdeals.com/forums/showthread.php?t=621574) Still a lack of news, but here is a video after the main event. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV5udSWJcZo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV5udSWJcZo) Title: Re: Better than an alarm clock. Explosion in Toronto Post by: schild on August 10, 2008, 02:30:00 AM NM, found news on it by geolocating your IP (sorry).
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2008/08/10/explosion-rocks-west-end-photos-reports.aspx http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=toronto+explosion Epic shit, yo. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/scotteh/2749304642/sizes/o/) Title: Re: Better than an alarm clock. Explosion in Toronto Post by: schild on August 10, 2008, 02:33:05 AM Didn't watch with sound, possibly NSFW.
wowowoowowowowowowowoowow (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV5udSWJcZo) I would shit myself. In the pants. Duck and Cover, motherfuckers! I'm sure the guy filming checked his body to make sure he wasn't vaporized. Title: Re: Better than an alarm clock. Explosions in Toronto Post by: Oban on August 10, 2008, 07:04:43 AM Now with more google...
http://tinyurl.com/5uz773 (http://tinyurl.com/5uz773) Title: Re: Better than an alarm clock. Explosions in Toronto Post by: Aez on August 10, 2008, 07:48:33 AM Wow.
Title: Re: Better than an alarm clock. Explosions in Toronto Post by: Oban on August 10, 2008, 07:54:59 AM Oh nice... so apparently there are at least two propane rail cars on the site as well. They have not exploded yet, the explosions earlier today were the little containers. If a rail car goes it will "flatten everything in a one kilometer radius" according to the fire chief.
The police shut down all of the 401, our major highway in anticipation... Joy. Title: Re: Better than an alarm clock. Explosions in Toronto Post by: Aez on August 10, 2008, 08:19:40 AM two propane rail cars [...] "flatten everything in a one kilometer radius" according to the fire chief. Joy. I'm no expert but I have a hard time believing that. Title: Re: Better than an alarm clock. Explosions in Toronto Post by: Trippy on August 10, 2008, 08:33:16 AM two propane rail cars [...] "flatten everything in a one kilometer radius" according to the fire chief. Joy. I'm no expert but I have a hard time believing that. Edit: linky http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_air_bomb Title: Re: Better than an alarm clock. Explosions in Toronto Post by: Engels on August 10, 2008, 08:40:34 AM is it wrong of me to think that some of those flickr pictures would make excellent desktop background images?
Title: Re: Better than an alarm clock. Explosions in Toronto Post by: Aez on August 10, 2008, 08:52:18 AM I'm sure it's a big explosion. I just doubt it would flatten everything in a one kilometer radius.
Title: Re: Better than an alarm clock. Explosions in Toronto Post by: Oban on August 10, 2008, 09:39:46 AM I'm sure it's a big explosion. I just doubt it would flatten everything in a one kilometer radius. Assuming the people are all evacuated and no one would be injured, it would be a huge improvement for the area. If we had tornadoes in Toronto, the shoddy developments in that area would have been flattened a long time ago. Title: Re: Better than an alarm clock. Explosions in Toronto Post by: Abagadro on August 10, 2008, 10:07:14 AM It probably wouldn't "flatten" things in that far of a radius.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf3WKTwHpIU That is a propane rail car explosion. It threw the tanker car three quarters of a mile, but a film crew sitting half a mile away only got rattled and felt the heat wave. Title: Re: Better than an alarm clock. Explosions in Toronto Post by: Reg on August 10, 2008, 10:25:28 AM If only Toronto had more internet super-heroes.
Title: Re: Better than an alarm clock. Explosions in Toronto Post by: Oban on August 10, 2008, 11:29:01 AM (http://www.clisham.com-a.googlepages.com/poster67679074.jpg)
Title: Re: Better than an alarm clock. Explosions in Toronto Post by: Abagadro on August 10, 2008, 02:47:28 PM I'm not sure what the Meerkat's point is.
Title: Re: Better than an alarm clock. Explosions in Toronto Post by: Phildo on August 10, 2008, 03:28:39 PM :ye_gods:
Title: Re: Better than an alarm clock. Explosions in Toronto Post by: Aez on August 10, 2008, 03:35:34 PM It probably wouldn't "flatten" things in that far of a radius. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf3WKTwHpIU That is a propane rail car explosion. It threw the tanker car three quarters of a mile, but a film crew sitting half a mile away only got rattled and felt the heat wave. Nice show but very light damage, the structures around it are still standing. And yeah, Metric Meerkat needs to get laid. Title: Re: Better than an alarm clock. Explosions in Toronto Post by: Viin on August 10, 2008, 05:25:03 PM Heh it's like being on the outside of a Die Hard movie.
Title: Re: Better than an alarm clock. Explosions in Toronto Post by: Fordel on August 12, 2008, 02:21:45 AM The follow up is now at least 50 homes in the area are Asbestos filled and all the utilities are a giant mess. Less then fun time to be had in that neighborhood.
Title: Re: Better than an alarm clock. Explosions in Toronto Post by: NiX on August 12, 2008, 07:57:44 AM Much closer video. You can see the shockwave. (http://www.break.com/index/huge-propane-tank-explosion-and-shockwave.html) You can also hear someone in their car who thought "I'm getting the fuck out of here."
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