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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Madrun Badrun on August 10, 2008, 02:12:28 PM

Title: I hope Malek isn't dead.
Post by: Madrun Badrun on August 10, 2008, 02:12:28 PM: Residents flee Toronto explosion
Salvation Army volunteers hand out refreshments to Toronto residents forced to flee their homes after explosions at a propane facility.
Residents were immediately bussed out the area

Thousands of people have been evacuated following an explosion at a propane gas plant in the north of the Canadian city of Toronto.

A two-mile (3.2km) exclusion zone was set up and police ordered residents of the Keele and Wilson areas to leave their homes.

The series of explosions at 0350 local time (0850 BST) on Sunday also shut down one the city's busiest highways.

Police say no-one was seriously injured in the incident.

Witnesses described the sky lighting up in the glow of an enormous fireball before turning black with smoke, and some residents said the blast caused their houses to rock.

"It was just a tremendous explosion and blew all the windows out of the house. I just managed to get out of there in time," local resident Robert Helman told the Associated Press news agency.

Firefighters battled the blazes at the Sunrise Propane Industrial Gases facility for several hours.

Toronto fire services division commander Bob O'Hallarn said that firefighters were close to extinguishing all the burning tanks, significantly reducing the risk of another explosion.

"I think we were very lucky," he said. "There was a very large of amount of fire when we arrived. It could have been much more serious."

Mr O'Hallarn said he saw at least five badly damaged houses, adding that it could be hours before residents are allowed back to their homes.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7552807.stm
Title: Re: I hope Malek isn't dead.
Post by: Tundra on August 10, 2008, 02:24:27 PM: First heads being cut off in public busses, now this. Seems Canada isn't the cosy place anymore it used to be.
Title: Re: I hope Malek isn't dead.
Post by: muckhole on August 10, 2008, 02:31:35 PM: Naw, Malek should be fine. It was in Noth York, Malek lives in Missisausage (Missisauga).

Unless he was the spark that started the fire :shh
Title: Re: I hope Malek isn't dead.
Post by: Madrun Badrun on August 10, 2008, 02:32:51 PM: Quote from: Tundra on August 10, 2008, 02:24:27 PM
First heads being cut off in public busses, now this. Seems Canada isn't the cosy place anymore it used to be.

I blame French separatists for both these things.
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Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on August 10, 2008, 02:37:26 PM: [youtube=425,350]Jbw_K8pfNfo[/youtube]

Holy fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on August 10, 2008, 02:40:09 PM: wow
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Post by: Great Rumbler on August 10, 2008, 02:42:15 PM: Quote from: BobFromPikeCreek on August 10, 2008, 02:37:26 PM
[youtube=425,350]Jbw_K8pfNfo[/youtube]

Holy fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!

Shockwave + Massive Fireball = :o
Title: Re: I hope Malek isn't dead.
Post by: cool breeze on August 10, 2008, 02:44:28 PM: Quote from: BobFromPikeCreek on August 10, 2008, 02:37:26 PM
[youtube=425,350]Jbw_K8pfNfo[/youtube]

Holy fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!

That guy totally stole my reaction. What the fuck!
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Post by: Joe Molotov on August 10, 2008, 02:44:53 PM: Woah
Title: Re: I hope Malek isn't dead.
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on August 10, 2008, 02:46:40 PM: [youtube=425,350]oV5udSWJcZo[/youtube]

This guy's camera is steadier, but you can't see the shockwave as well.
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Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on August 10, 2008, 02:48:35 PM: Skip to 1:50 by the way.
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Post by: muckhole on August 10, 2008, 03:03:16 PM: That's amazing video.
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Post by: Crushed on August 10, 2008, 03:05:53 PM: i saw it, it's alive, it's huge
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Post by: Vizzys on August 10, 2008, 03:10:03 PM: crazy stuff, wow
Title: Re: I hope Malek isn't dead.
Post by: cool breeze on August 10, 2008, 03:13:28 PM: Quote from: Crushed on August 10, 2008, 03:05:53 PM
i saw it, it's alive, it's huge

It's a lion!

I was so pumped for a Voltron movie, but it ended up being some lame movie about some lame thing or something.
Title: Re: I hope Malek isn't dead.
Post by: Flannel Boy on August 10, 2008, 03:16:17 PM: In some ways, I died a long time ago.
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Post by: Flannel Boy on August 10, 2008, 07:05:17 PM: [youtube=425,350]Wsm7yQLW3Fo[/youtube].
Title: Re: I hope Malek isn't dead.
Post by: Flannel Boy on August 10, 2008, 08:26:37 PM: Quote from: Oscar the Grouch on August 10, 2008, 08:19:21 PM
Malek's in Winnipeg, which is about 23 hours straight drive from Toronto, if you speed half the way. He should be alright.

Actually I'm back in Mississauga

From yesterday:
Quote from: Malek: King of Kings on August 09, 2008, 07:49:38 PM
Back in Mississauga.
Title: Re: I hope Malek isn't dead.
Post by: Great Rumbler on August 10, 2008, 08:29:22 PM: Quote from: Malek: King of Kings on August 10, 2008, 08:26:37 PM
Quote from: Oscar the Grouch on August 10, 2008, 08:19:21 PM
Malek's in Winnipeg, which is about 23 hours straight drive from Toronto, if you speed half the way. He should be alright.

Actually I'm back in Mississauga

From yesterday:
Quote from: Malek: King of Kings on August 09, 2008, 07:49:38 PM
Back in Mississauga.

Soo...did you die?
Title: Re: I hope Malek isn't dead.
Post by: muckhole on August 10, 2008, 11:27:28 PM: :lol
Title: Re: I hope Malek isn't dead.
Post by: Tauntaun on August 10, 2008, 11:30:24 PM: Is Canada gonna have a civil war soon?