It was quite the thing seeing TV shots of a very familiar neighbourhood in Halifax evacuated yesterday due to a fire at grain silos down by the South End rail yards. Just a few streets over from the SMU campus, these concrete silos tower over houses on Atlantic Street, one of the last working class streets in the South End.

As brother Iain pointed out to me, these towers appeared in the background of the early scenes of the movie Shipping News when Coyle lived with the crazy lady in the white car before he headed to Newfie to find happiness while clinging to a rock in woolly hats with a red headed lady.