# All Toronto Dopers want to sound off **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 11, 2008, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-toronto-dopers-want-to-sound-off/459586 "2008-08-11T08:12:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2008, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-toronto-dopers-want-to-sound-off/459586/1 "2008-08-11T08:12:31Z")
Seems a propane storage facility went kerblooie [kerblooie](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV5udSWJcZo) Somewhere around Downsview Airbase , from a distance on the youtube vid it looked like a nuke going off. Sound off let us know your okay. Declan ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2008, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-toronto-dopers-want-to-sound-off/459586/2 "2008-08-11T09:38:16Z")
I’m fine, but I’m in the south-east. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2008, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-toronto-dopers-want-to-sound-off/459586/3 "2008-08-11T20:13:27Z")
Wow, Amazing so few people were killed. Reminds me of an argument I got into about whether or not a propane container would explode (versus just burning). Looked like an explosion to me. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2008, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-toronto-dopers-want-to-sound-off/459586/4 "2008-08-11T20:21:05Z")
I walked out of my apartment yesterday afternoon in Stonegate and thought, “This is a nice fally day, cool, with the smell of burning leave–_that’s not leaves_.” Yes, you could smell it all the way down by the lake (and, as it later turned out, at Kiplng as well). I didn’t see any pillars of smoke on the near horizon though, so the fire must have been out by then (around 4:30 PM). True, the clouds were low and it was misty in places, so that may have hidden things. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2008, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-toronto-dopers-want-to-sound-off/459586/5 "2008-08-11T20:31:10Z")
100 houses ‘uninhabitable’, mostly due to asbestos. (_Asbestos_, as opposed to being blown to pieces?). Turns out that the Bombardier aircraft plant just north of there was damaged as well. [CTV link](http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080810/to_explo_080811/20080811?hub=TopStories). [Video](http://watch.ctv.ca/news/mynews/fire-in-the-sky/#clip72836). So… who thought it was a good idea to put a NEW propane distribution centre next to an existing residential area? ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2008, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-toronto-dopers-want-to-sound-off/459586/6 "2008-08-12T02:47:16Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] 100 houses ‘uninhabitable’, mostly due to asbestos. (_Asbestos_, as opposed to being blown to pieces?). Turns out that the Bombardier aircraft plant just north of there was damaged as well. [CTV link](http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080810/to_explo_080811/20080811?hub=TopStories). [Video](http://watch.ctv.ca/news/mynews/fire-in-the-sky/#clip72836). So… who thought it was a good idea to put a NEW propane distribution centre next to an existing residential area? [/QUOTE] Only in the last couple of years did they remove a propane farm from a residential section of my area. I think the huge junk of metal that was hurled over 500 meters says it all. It didn’t make the news here at all. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2008, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-toronto-dopers-want-to-sound-off/459586/7 "2008-08-12T05:15:32Z")
How scary for everyone nearby. And the poor firefighter that died, I feel so bad for his family. We had a chemical plant explode near me two years ago, rather exciting stuff until everyone you know is present and accounted for. ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2008, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-toronto-dopers-want-to-sound-off/459586/8 "2008-08-12T06:56:14Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] So… who thought it was a good idea to put a NEW propane distribution centre next to an existing residential area? [/QUOTE] I shudder to think what the casualty list would have been like if that propane yard had cooked off at rush hour. Declan ---
**Author:** ![Daerlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Daerlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daerlyn)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2008, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-toronto-dopers-want-to-sound-off/459586/9 "2008-08-12T07:08:12Z")
**Mnementh** and I are good - we’re out in Scarborough, quite a ways away from the blast.