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Re: Huge Blast, Fire Kills 6 And Destroys Dozens of Homes Near San Francisco
« Reply #25 on: September 11, 2010, 04:30:19 PM »
Quote from: BlueStateSaint on September 11, 2010, 04:24:29 PM
I've heard that this was a steel gas main, and steel gas mains are the most likely to fail--sometimes catastrophically.

The one I was a witness to was in Spokane. It was the coupling to the house that failed. DUmbass had done it to himself. He never checked his connections for leaks. Since it was under the house, it basically filled the crawl space full of gas. When it finally seeped thru the floor, it found the pilot light on the water heater or the forced air furnace!

KABOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Huge Blast, Fire Kills 6 And Destroys Dozens of Homes Near San Francisco
« Reply #26 on: September 11, 2010, 06:10:50 PM »
Quote from: Celtic Rose on September 11, 2010, 01:00:45 AM
I'm fine.  Thank you for thinking of me.    :-*  I'm in the more southern part of the bay area. 

That's good to hear. Did you hear and/or feel the explosion?
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Re: Huge Blast, Fire Kills 6 And Destroys Dozens of Homes Near San Francisco
« Reply #27 on: September 11, 2010, 06:15:30 PM »
Quote from: Ptarmigan on September 11, 2010, 06:10:50 PM
That's good to hear. Did you hear and/or feel the explosion?

No, I was too far away. 
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Re: Huge Blast, Fire Kills 6 And Destroys Dozens of Homes Near San Francisco
« Reply #28 on: September 14, 2010, 12:58:09 PM »
Let the fear mongering begin.  This is from PMSNBC, but Fox News was also talking about the aging gas pipe lines in the country and how they are all at risk of blowing us all sky high.
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Re: Huge Blast, Fire Kills 6 And Destroys Dozens of Homes Near San Francisco
« Reply #29 on: September 14, 2010, 01:25:46 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on September 14, 2010, 12:58:09 PM
Let the fear mongering begin.  This is from PMSNBC, but Fox News was also talking about the aging gas pipe lines in the country and how they are all at risk of blowing us all sky high.

I have never been big a fan of gas and am proably not alone in the belief that it can go kaboom with the least provocation.   Now, what I am waiting to hear is it was actually caused by "Burning a Koran"!! :rotf:
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Re: Huge Blast, Fire Kills 6 And Destroys Dozens of Homes Near San Francisco
« Reply #30 on: September 14, 2010, 01:30:50 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on September 14, 2010, 12:58:09 PM
Let the fear mongering begin.  This is from PMSNBC, but Fox News was also talking about the aging gas pipe lines in the country and how they are all at risk of blowing us all sky high.

Interesting... the official investigation has not come to any conclusion, but the jeanyuses in the media already have a crusade picked out.
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Re: Huge Blast, Fire Kills 6 And Destroys Dozens of Homes Near San Francisco
« Reply #31 on: September 14, 2010, 01:58:57 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on September 14, 2010, 12:58:09 PM
Let the fear mongering begin.  This is from PMSNBC, but Fox News was also talking about the aging gas pipe lines in the country and how they are all at risk of blowing us all sky high.

Where are these aging pipelines? Hell, I'm pretty much out in the boondocks compared to most and they just updated ours 2 years ago! I know, because 1200 feet of it is in my front pasture and adjacent hay field.
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Re: Huge Blast, Fire Kills 6 And Destroys Dozens of Homes Near San Francisco
« Reply #32 on: September 14, 2010, 02:18:23 PM »
Quote from: AllosaursRus on September 14, 2010, 01:58:57 PM
Where are these aging pipelines? Hell, I'm pretty much out in the boondocks compared to most and they just updated ours 2 years ago! I know, because 1200 feet of it is in my front pasture and adjacent hay field.

Well, we have a whole mess of em down here.....this article is from July.  http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/070910dnmetgaslines.11cacd493.html

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Re: Huge Blast, Fire Kills 6 And Destroys Dozens of Homes Near San Francisco
« Reply #33 on: September 14, 2010, 02:20:29 PM »
Quote from: IassaFTots on September 14, 2010, 02:18:23 PM
Well, we have a whole mess of em down here.....this article is from July.  http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/070910dnmetgaslines.11cacd493.html



Must depend on your utility company. Ours has been upgrading to the new yellow PVC for at least 8 years!

Guess that's what happens when the state isn't tryin' to regulate 'em to death!
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Re: Huge Blast, Fire Kills 6 And Destroys Dozens of Homes Near San Francisco
« Reply #34 on: September 14, 2010, 10:54:56 PM »

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Re: Huge Blast, Fire Kills 6 And Destroys Dozens of Homes Near San Francisco
« Reply #35 on: September 14, 2010, 11:21:08 PM »
Holy Crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I heard this mornin' they originally thought it was a plane because two pilots reported it to the tower! They didn't get the gas shut off for over an hour!
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Re: Huge Blast, Fire Kills 6 And Destroys Dozens of Homes Near San Francisco
« Reply #36 on: September 15, 2010, 12:30:37 AM »
I'm surprised that Obama and his Merry Band of Idiots, haven't decided to use the "aging gas lines" as a reason for asking for stimulus money to create jobs replacing them all over the country.

Not exactly a bad idea....but he's lagging behind, he should already be flying all over the country, telling the loyal subjects that he is going to do this. It's been what...4 days since it happened? Tsk Tsk....Rahm is letting a disaster go to waste. 







Seriously.....anyone with a heart, has to feel pain for those poor people who lost their lives, their families, and those who are injured, and all those who lost their homes. Losing a family member, or becoming injured is one thing. Losing a home is another thing. Combine them together....it would be hard to ever recover from the loss.
God bless them all............
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