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To: rlmorel

I remember there definitely were some problems with certain system applications. So it did not come and go without any problems at all.


30 posted on 09/28/2021 7:31:28 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Openurmind; rlmorel

The Bellingham, Washington pipeline explosion (3 kids killed) was partially due to “Y2K”. They had replaced remote indicator switches on the valves to be Y2K compliant.

They had a problem with one of the indicators on a valve. The computer would say the valve was closed so they would spend two hours or whatever it was for a technician to get to the valve and the valve would be open. This happened three times I think.

The fourth time they said “Oh - that’s just that faulty indicator again.” So they sent the fuel (jet fuel iirc). Except this time it really was closed. The fuel hit the closed valve and then sent a pressure wave back up the line. And it went to a nearby bend in the line that had been damaged a few years prior but nobody knew it.

Pipeline burst and spilled a bunch of the fuel into a park. Two little kids (10 years??) were playing with a lighter that they had found and “boom”. A teen fishing upstream had died from the fumes.

Those two little boys probably saved more people from dying. It exploded in the mostly empty park which was just before a populated area where a car or something would have set it off.


86 posted on 09/28/2021 2:11:32 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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