Welcome everyone to Fortress Toronto!!!!
06-25-2010, 11:28 PM
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Burning Brakes
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Welcome everyone to Fortress Toronto!!!!
I guess we should have left TO for the weekend??
Well we live on the south edge of Centenial Park its across the road from the house and I guess too
close to the city, airport and seems all the G20 action.
The wife said we should go away for the weekend with the G20 taking place downtown.
I said, oh you will not even know, boy was I wrong.
Ever since it became dark out we have had helicopters circling overhead and doing a 4-5 min. cycle.
If you live in the Etobicoke area you might have heard them already, looks like they run down the bottom
side of the airport, south a bit then east and then back north then do the loop again, and again for 5+
times then loop further south for 20 min then back again.
We can see part of downtown in the distance from the upper floor of the house and you can see all the
spot lights circling the sky over TO, feel like we are in a police state!!
I hope this does not go on all night but have the feeling we will be hearing them till dawn.
I guess they dont want any small planes flying in low to the down town area under radar or something
like that? This is just crazy, I cannot wait to get back to the country!!
Well we live on the south edge of Centenial Park its across the road from the house and I guess too
close to the city, airport and seems all the G20 action.
The wife said we should go away for the weekend with the G20 taking place downtown.
I said, oh you will not even know, boy was I wrong.
Ever since it became dark out we have had helicopters circling overhead and doing a 4-5 min. cycle.
If you live in the Etobicoke area you might have heard them already, looks like they run down the bottom
side of the airport, south a bit then east and then back north then do the loop again, and again for 5+
times then loop further south for 20 min then back again.
We can see part of downtown in the distance from the upper floor of the house and you can see all the
spot lights circling the sky over TO, feel like we are in a police state!!
I hope this does not go on all night but have the feeling we will be hearing them till dawn.
I guess they dont want any small planes flying in low to the down town area under radar or something
like that? This is just crazy, I cannot wait to get back to the country!!
06-26-2010, 08:58 AM
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Le Mans Master
During the 1988 G7 Summit we lived in Yorkville, right on Hazelton. There were times with the helicopters and their lights that at 3 am it was as bright as noon. Not a lot of sleep and with a 4 month old at the time our patience was pushed over the limit. Moved out of the GTA 2 years later and glad for it.