Posted on 09/09/2010 7:01:08 PM PDT by SFC Chromey
A plane just crashed near SFO in San Bruno, CA. Prayers to all affected.
South City...SSF...is NOT San Francisco. A world of difference, as well as about 12 miles south, between the 2 places.
(I had a house in South City for about 10 yrs. South side of San Bruno Mount. just off Hillside Drive)
Whatever company they worked for, that company is toast.
Heh....no, a world of difference is Texas (I'm originally from NorCal, BTW).
Yep. 10 million dollars in damages for neglecting to send a $12/hr guy to stick ‘don’t dig’ flags in the ground.
My bet is the blame/cost will go to some guy back in ‘59 that didn’t make a good right turn on the gas line.
Actually, South San Francisco is in San Mateo County, just south of San Francisco County. About 10 miles south. But I hear you. I was born and raised in San Francisco. It used to be solid Republican, had a long unbroken string of Republican mayors from 1910 or so to the mid-1960s. Then it turned. I got out in the 1970s. San Bruno and South San Francisco are more normal. My neighborhood flies American flags. Been working on my wife to let us move to another state, but her elderly mom won't move.
Where I live a contractor will not dig on your property until the utility companies come out and clearly mark the site of all your underground utilities...........including the gas lines.
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Grand Avenue in South SF? If so, it’s doing very well after the biotech boom of the 1990s. Genentech poured a lot of money into the local community. One of my daughters works there. South City is still very much blue collar, and not crazy like the folks in San Francisco to the north.
I'm sure the "Summer of Love" had a lot to do with San Francisco turning left.
I saw a documentary on the hippie invasion of San Francisco recently. The film footage and interviews of the locals of the day, clearly showed a working class people who thought that aliens had landed in their city. Most were truly bewildered by the hordes of druggies and other misfits suddenly clogging their streets and parks.
” The film footage and interviews of the locals of the day, clearly showed a working class people who thought that aliens had landed in their city. Most were truly bewildered by the hordes of druggies and other misfits suddenly clogging their streets and parks.”
Dirty Harry did his best, but even a .44 Magnum couldn’t hold the freaks back indefinitely...;)
Yep...Grand Avenue. Nice little ‘main street’ as I remember. There was a Mescan place for a while there...Vera Cruz or something like that. A ‘downstairs’ place that had great Mescan seafood.
Yep...South City was OK. And then there is Brisbane over the hill. The “Poor Mans Sausilito”...LOL!
The freaks took over San Francisco incrementally. They then proceeded to infect the rest of my home state, and wreak their leftist destruction on everything they touched.
The whole state is now a basket case, and close to collapse. The libs took hold, and turned what was once the best state in the country to live and raise a family, into what is now perhaps the worst.
I finally threw in the towel in late 2005 and moved the family and the business to Texas. Best move my wife and I could have possibly made.
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Not difficult to obtain a schematic of gas line and other buried utility locations for any given locale. One shoulder-fired missile would sound like a jet plane heading into impact but would be moving too fast to be seen by an observer. All the observer would see and feel after hearing the entry would be the initial explosion and subsequent heat. As terrible as it is to say, this may have been “target practice” for something much larger that’s in the works. Remember Flights 587 and 800. Those crashes were not freak accidents. Investigators turned up explosive residue which could not be attributed to any of the systems used by the aircraft. Watch for the contradictory statements and attempts at cover-up that come out of this one. Denial will be in full operational mode. Just your normal 24” gas main deciding to burst as they always do nowadays. Let’s also not forget the massive budget cuts to infrastructure spending.
Explains why they’ve had to fight much of the fire using water tenders. When the gas line blew, it took out the water main too.
also helps that San Andreas Lake is just a few hundred yards away over the hill from the fire. Helicopters have been scooping water from the lake continuously, to drop on the fires. I was watching earlier from my back yard as planes circled over, dropping fire retardant. They stopped when it got dark out.
A brother-in-law of mine works for Quest. A few years ago his job was to mark the ground where buried utilities exist, prior to construction work happening. Fights and disagreements were common between different utility companies. He's been dragged into court several times to give testimony. He tells me a lot of companies have their maps wrong.
The San Andreas fault runs right through that area. Lots of little smaller faults all over the place. Most likely the cause of the gas main failure.
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