Posted on 08/10/2020 7:58:51 AM PDT by rdl6989
Fox Baltimore reports that medical units have been called to the scene and Baltimore County firefighters have been called to help.
“Several houses exploded. At least 5 people trapped, some children.
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Lebanese fireworks?
During a live report, people on the scene said there was a strong odor of natural gas. So I guess it was someone’s old pipes leaking that exploded.
Diana Oughton, Bill Ayers previous girlfriend, suffered premature detonation in this event
I only watched 3-4 episodes but that little blonde girl and her kin pretty much fit the bill as far as poor people here, although like all entertainment, they make the men look dumb and the women smart. No jobs is hell on a society. The last economic boom in rural Ctrl MO was in the 1800s. Everyone’s big goal in life is to get on disability. Knowing how to hunt is more important than a HS diploma. All the jobs typical for men go to family members.
Looks like MO no longer holds that esteemed position, https://www.ozarksfirst.com/local-news/local-news-local-news/kolr-10-investigates-is-missouri-still-the-meth-capital/
It did as recent as 2004 which is about the time I learned the factoid.
Yeah real shame about that explosion, it did not get them all.
Wow, what street is this accident? Watching JZ now but not seeing any road signs or mention, only NW.
I guess you’re not in NYC after all....
Finally claimed Brookhill Rd near Reisterstown Rd.
Sound right?
Some might just be too old now.
If it’s in the NE or North, that does not surprise me.
There has been a transformer shortage for the past 5 years at least, almost all sizes nationwide.
It’ll take another decade to upgrade and get the NE/North up to code & modernized I’d imagine with electricity and gas.
Sorry, the explosion near me was not this one.it was another state and time. I was just giving an eample of the destrution of gas explosions. My fault for not being more clear.
I work with 4,160 Volt transformers at work. We have a few that blow every time we have a scheduled maintenance outage. They are so old the windings insulation has deteriorated. The cold outage lets ambient moisture accumulate inside. Then when we power back up the moisture becomes steam with no way to escape until it does violently and kaboom! Sounds like a bomb going off. Our lead times on replacements is about six weeks.
Six weeks isn’t bad for lead times on the smaller xformers.
Anything over 37.5kVA for me is 12 weeks.
Yes...I understood exactly what you meant. I was just commenting on how these windows (in adjacent buildings/homes) look broken, as well....similar to how you described your situation.
Interesting. Reporter says a Puerto Rican family was in a neighboring house they had just moved to after being devastated in PR Hurricane Maria. They’re lucky they missed being truly destroyed here, though there is much damage. No injury I guess to them.
Yikes! And I’m sure like us, management will not authorize a spare on hand? We usually pay almost as much in emergency expediting and freight as the transformer itself.
His grandkids doing stuff in the basement.
Or he left his oven on without the pilot light.
It took a 3 story building an reduced It to about 10 feet tall. It also blew the siding off closer houses. Lots of broken glass.
The cause was an undetected gas leak from under the sidewalk. It leaked into a basement and when the furnace came on, it blew.
This is interesting:
https://mobile.twitter.com/scanthepolice/status/1292881659776446467
Scan the Police // Baltimore City
10m
Scanner: Cop, sounding panicked as if she’s walking on the explosion site, tells crime lab units to go to 4229 Reisterstown wearing boots & hard hats & bringing their camera because she’s found specific things she needs photos of
If I remember my Breaking Bad, meth labs produce poison gas if there’s an accident, not explosions.
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