The CN Tower in Toronto is one of Canada's famous landmarks. Recently it has also been the landmark for gigantic shards of ice raining down on the streets below from close to 500m up in the air.
The decision to shut the Gardiner Expressway after sheets of ice were seen plummeting from the CN Tower was the first time falling ice has closed the expressway that provides crucial traffic flow along the city's southern edge.
Rising temperatures and wind shifts pieces of ice to peel off of the northeast side of the tower, 435 metres up, at around 7:30 a.m. and land on the Expressway and downtown streets.
To see video of this strange and dangerous occurrence....click here to be linked to a CityTV video of the ice bombs falling from on high.
Thankfully no one below was injured. Ice has fallen from the Tower before but was never enough to close a major traffic artery. Some people were given construction helmets to be able to get to their cars at one point to be able to safely move them. Despite the falling ice sheets, the CN Tower remained open and people were permitted to elevate from the ground to the observation deck above. Maybe Chicken Little had something when he said "The sky was falling". For more on this story, here is a link to a National Post article.
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