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  • remingtonoaks
    WOW, I'm sure the gas company is going to be sued heavily over this one....
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  • yoshmyster
    PG&E done blew up San Bruno and I don't think they paid yet. That was like 5 years ago?
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  • Laredo Lefty
    quote:Originally posted by yoshmyster
    PG&E done blew up San Bruno and I don't think they paid yet. That was like 5 years ago?


    Actually 8 years ago this month, and it was one hell of an explosion.
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  • yoshmyster
    Okay 8. I don't think they got paid still. Then you got Santa Rosa where they're trying to spin it to PG&E's transformer lighting up that whole city. Either case the folks will be long dead before any power company pony ups the cash.
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  • shilowar
    That's some Diehard chit goin down....
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  • Brookwood
    Old gas lines that were never checked and upgraded that turned into multiple connected "fuses". Like a string of dominoes leading to individual houses!

    Makes me kind of glad to pay a slightly higher price for the self contained propane pig tank and its gas!
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  • shilowar
    quote:Originally posted by Brookwood
    Old gas lines that were never checked and upgraded that turned into multiple connected "fuses". Like a string of dominoes leading to individual houses!

    Makes me kind of glad to pay a slightly higher price for the self contained propane pig tank and its gas!


    Me too...suddenly an advantage to LP.
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  • mjrfd99
    Old infrastructure and years of kicking the can down the road not fixing or maintaining said infrastructure WILL have dire consequences. Water mains to gas lines. Bridges to tunnels.
    Older the city or dnc "sanctuary" the more likely the area is neglected and ruined.
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  • Don McManus
    I would have to assume that there was a very significant overpressure event. Natural gas is typically at very low pressures (50 - 60 PSIG). Multiple failures like this are not caused by old piping, rather by a huge mistake or a cascade failure of the pressure regulating system (or both).
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  • Okie743
    quote:Originally posted by Don McManus
    I would have to assume that there was a very significant overpressure event. Natural gas is typically at very low pressures (50 - 60 PSIG). Multiple failures like this are not caused by old piping, rather by a huge mistake or a cascade failure of the pressure regulating system (or both).


    +1

    Several 1000 homes developed a inside leak and fire

    It did not come from UG leak, most likely overpressure.

    Might be Russia's fault.[;)]
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  • shilowar
    quote:Originally posted by Okie743
    quote:Originally posted by Don McManus
    I would have to assume that there was a very significant overpressure event. Natural gas is typically at very low pressures (50 - 60 PSIG). Multiple failures like this are not caused by old piping, rather by a huge mistake or a cascade failure of the pressure regulating system (or both).


    +1

    Several 1000 homes developed a inside leak and fire

    It did not come from UG leak, most likely overpressure.

    Might be Russia's fault.[;)]


    I read somewhere that someone in the company made a big "mistake" and funneled high pressure into low pressure residential lines causing pilot lights to turn into blow torches So I guess folks with electronic ignition appliances were fine, so long as they didn't turn them on.

    Could it have been a computer hack? A terrorist attack? Now Pocahontas is demanding a congressional investigation.
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  • yoshmyster
    shilowar - Them "Smart Meter" can't be hacked.
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