I don't know what to think of this.
Posted on 01/13/2018 2:15:53 PM PST by Mad Dawgg
They had transitioned a pipeline with Y2K updates for the valves and stuff inside the pipe. One of them kept giving a false “closed valve” signal. They would send someone to drive out and manually check it and a half-hour later would hear back “Yeah - no - it’s open like you said it was - stupid sensor.”
This happened once-in-awhile with manual checks, put in a new sensor, rewrite software, etc.
I’m not sure if they ignored the signal regularily, or just once. But they sent a bunch of fet fuel down the pipeline and disregarded the “faulty” signal. Turns out that the valve WAS closed.
Things would have been okay, except just upstream from the valve the pipe had been damaged by an excavator several weeks/months prior. I guess “someone” did an inspection of the pipe and deemed it to be okay.
Well it wasn’t and the pipe ruptured when the pressure built up due to the closed valve. The fuel ran down into a river and a park. A fisherman died from the fumes. A bit farther two boys were playing with a lighter they had found - and the fuel ignited the whole park (and killed the boys).
Those two boys probably saved it from being a huge disaster as downstream from the park is a city with lots of people and all sorts of ignition sources.
Sorry for the long story. But is a good (bad?) example of how compounding failures can really start to add up, and we need to do our best with each link in the system.
I seem to recall a Cold War episode where we detected a launch by the Soviets (fake - was part of some simulation program that was entered improperly) but everyone thought it was real. So the President gets on the red phone direct link to the Kremlin - but there was some problem with that, so they thought the Russians were ignoring the call.
Forget the double.
Buy the bottle and chug it.
That is why it would be good to have a video of how the people reacted during the panic minutes. We could learn from it. Did they pray to Obama or to God?
All the news outlets here are chanting that it’s time for Trump to DO SOMETHING. I think this was a planned public relations event, with pre-planned statements of outrage.
As stated above in a 100% Dem state we’ll never know who planned this.
I overheard a gal on her phone telling her child that she loved him, that everything was going to be okay, and get daddy on the phone. It went on for a few minutes until I walked away - she never did get to her husband. I heard the word “missile” but hadn’t heard the news about it (I’m in Seattle). I’m guessing she was calling her family back in Hawaii. She was frantic - but kept it pretty calm for her child. I thought she was just dealing with a personal issue that had her child all upset until I saw the news.
I don't know what to think of this.
One person posting stuff on Twitter - they can say whatever they want to! The Twitter video stuff is interesting sometimes (like the Ukraine riot/revolution a couple of years ago). Everything that people just write I take with a huge bowl of salt.
agree —the guy is just nuts.
you are correct. This was an interesting “test” of how people would react to the “real” thing. Looks like it didn’t go too well. But heck, what could you do to “save yourself” on an island with a nuclear attack ... poof!
Oops.
My bad
Tomorrow, I think that I'll tune into the two kommie kables every once in a while to catch them involving the President in the missile scare because I know they're going to twist themselves into pretzels to pin the blame on him !
Leni
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