>>>>>Just saw this on yahoo, hope all the Torontian UTers are OK, it looks devastating.
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>>>>>http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/index.php?rn=222561&cl=9216943&ch=1329521
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>>>>This is terrible. Something similar happened in Florida a few years ago. It is devastating. My thoughts go out to those in Toronto...
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>>>It woke my mother up, but she's a bit outside the 1.6 km evacuation radius. She said that a huge 'bang' woke her and then the room lit up like it was daylight (a bit before 4:00am). She thought it was thunder and lightning, but she looked out her window and there was no rain. She went back to sleep. We've been having some cracking thunder and lightning storms lately, so it's easy to understand that a lot of people probably didn't pay all that much attention at the time. From all I've heard though, everyone is commending the police, the fire dept, the transit system and the humane society, and the way they all worked together. Not to mention York University where most of the evacuees are being taken by shuttle buses.
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>>Good to hear. I read accounts of looting from the evacuees homes, but that is typical media coverage to focus on the small but sensational (assuming it is a small occurrence based on how media coverage goes here - they manage to make one or two instances appear widespread).
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>Those pesky media. They have to go and report on looting in the wake of a disaster instead of accentuating the positive. Do you know it was only one or two instances? This time I am not too lazy to find out for myself, just scrupulously avoiding news sites to avoid Olympic news before I can watch it on TV.

From what I've heard, it was isolated and mostly from stores. The cops had the area pretty well locked down fairly quickly.