We heard the sirens, the trucks going by. The roads were closed, and this time not for repairs, the whole area smelled! We had a gas leak on Rue Notre Dame yesterday in Old Montreal. According to the Gazette it happened when “workers hit a gas line during repairs to the street.”
The workers hit a gas line!! Aren’t they the pros, knowing where to dig, how deep and when to stop? The whole block stank like gas. I smelled it all the way from St Laurent corner, but the fire trucks where all over the construction area of Notre Dame between Francois-Xavier and St-Pierre. Not in 500 Place d’Armes like Gazette reported.
Anyhow, it was a good scare. Enough to make me take my car and “go for a coffee” away from home, until things clear out a bit. On the way back I was praying that my building didn’t go up in flames. What if someone lit up a cigarette in the street? I hoped not.
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Not the first time this happens. Happened a couple years ago at the intersection of Maisonneuve with Atwater. I was working in the Alexis Nihon tower at the time, and the whole area reeked like gas and was closed off for a while. We weren't allowed to leave the building until well into the evening. Incompetent fools!