Posted on 09/13/2018 2:35:39 PM PDT by CtBigPat
Multiple explosions in the Lawrence, MA area.
And workforce on strike.
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Yup...you would hope that this is being done. seen a cop running from house to house trying to shut gas valves off.
Hearing about injuries now.
Most newer systems have individual regulators on each home, usually only rated at a certain input pressure. Old low pressure systems are fed by large regulators sometimes blocks away.
Immediate East of there used to be what was the Essex County Gas Company.
They had five houses blow up in as many years, but only one seriously injured, a gas worker. I had talked with a couple of the execs, and they said only one was really their fault - the one caused by the rusting gas main that paralleled a tidally brackish part of the Merrimack River.
The rest had nothing to do with their service or materials. The one I remember was a town digging for a frozen water main damaged a gas main, and the one house they couldn't get into to turn off the gas blew up, throwing a number of personnel through snow banks, including the guy seriously hurt.
They don’t have enough firefighters to stop the fire from spreading from house to house.
Yup...you would hope that this is being done. seen a cop running from house to house trying to shut gas valves off.
That would not do much good. The leak is not inside the houses. When an underground gas line breaks the Gas flows underground through the trench where the gas line was laid. It enters structures in the same way. Turning off the individual residential service line valves is not going to change anything. The need to shut off the main feed line.
CNN Fox seemingly oblivious on this story.
Saw it on foxnews.com then came here to see if it was posted yet.
You are correct. A bit of panic seems to have set in when this thing started. I’m hearing a number of 50 separate fires in 3 or 4 towns.
Is that right? I’ve never heard of it before but a single-point failure of a regulator like that could possibly put high pressure onto the low pressure distribution lines. What an awful piece of engineering if so! Seems pretty clear that high pressure gas is involved here.
Well, MA has a RINO governor, so FNC’s Shep doesn’t really have to spin it against Trump’s “Katrina” going on South of the Mason-Dixon line.
Right now it’s like whack-a-mole with houses here & there popping up here & there randomly.
Local TV coverage...
Trump’s fault.
CNN Fox seemingly oblivious on this story.
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Ben, Brett Kavanaugh got “inappropriate” with a girl while in high school. This death and destruction stuff simply isn’t important.
What would help a lot if no gas is yet present in a structure would be to put out all pilot lights and turn off the electrical main. You don’t want any open flames or sparks. Open windows to vent.
I just realized that turning of the gas valves would have the benefit of soon extinguishing any pilot lights. After the pressure in the line dropped off.
I seem to recall a similar problem in Chicago a number of years ago. As I recall, they regulated the pressure at the source instead of having regulators at each individual home. When the pressure shot up, every pilot light in every stove, dryer and water heater turned into a blowtorch.
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Local newspaper guy is updating constantly, now explosions spread to Noryh Lawrence...
Unreal.
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