Update: threw this particular video over to MTV for this week’s story.

As I watched the continuing “disaster porn,” as one local blogger put it, on the TV, Twitter filled another gap and alerted me to the distinct lack of coverage of the neighborhood where the destruction began. “No [mainstream media] in Vine City yet. It’s bad there I hear,” reported local new media adventurer Grayson Daughters. Weather services determined that the tornado first touched down in Vine City, just west of downtown, before moving east across the city and into Cabbagetown.

Newly armed with my own personal Nokia N95 — the pocket-sized powerhouse that enabled our Choose or Lose coverage of Super Tuesday — I headed west. And sure enough, I was the only relatively journalistic-looking person there by lunchtime.

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So perhaps Vine City just wasn’t as interesting as Cabbagetown for on-the-scene news standups because there wasn’t much of interest there to be destroyed, unless it happened to be your home that lost its roof or found a tree laying across it.

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