Shangri-Oops

[mbarrick]

Looks like someone didn't take the Environment Canada wind-warning for today quite as seriously as they should have. Something, I'm not sure what, blew off one of the upper floors of the Shangri-La Tower and hit the Terasen Building around the 18th or 19th floor. There is a damaged window on the Terasen Building (not broken, but the distinctive blue-grey window coating is ripped away and flapping in the wind). Judging by the size of the scar on the Terasen Building I'm guessing it was a sheet of plywood that went flying. The 1100 block of Georgia is closed to traffic and pedestrians at the moment, just in time for rush hour, so traffic is an utter mess and there is a lot of honking going on outside the apartment. Maybe it will be on the 6:00 news.



Update - 5:20 p.m. - Even more fun. Now the block 500-block of Bute between Pender and Melville is also blocked off, plus the 1200 block of Pender and the 1200 block of Melville, because the retaining cloth on the tower going up on the east side of the block has ripped away.

Comments

[saturnina.livejournal.com]

It was briefly on the 5:00 news

[seymour-glass.livejournal.com]

there was some massive gridlock out there that i saw on the cbc news at six...plus i heard the causeway was shut down too to add to that chaos...

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't think the causeway was completely closed, but they were reporting debris on the road. Bad day for West/North Van commuters.

[seymour-glass.livejournal.com]

translink was rerouting the buses back over the second narrows...i'm sure that didn't help...

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

That's because they couldn't get through here once they closed Bute and Melville. Anyone who was going north on Bute was forced to do a U-turn at Melville. One Translink bus got trapped on Bute, unable to turn around. Then there were the people thinking they could get away with going down the alley between Melville and Granville and then got forced to turn around at Thurlow. It was gridlock here. People were even getting out of their cars and walking around to try and plan a way out.

[seymour-glass.livejournal.com]

ah...i only heard there was debris on the causeway and the buses were rerouted...i just assumed the causeway was closed...proving one shouldn't make assumptions without the whole story...

I'm not sure why....

[logik.livejournal.com]

But the symbolism of pieces of Shangri-La flying through the air and attacking terasen gas appeals to me. Seems an omen, does it not?