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Middletown, Connecticut rocked by explosion
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| Sunday Feb7 2010 10:19 AM MST
| KJ Mullins
Posted on 02/07/2010 9:27:40 AM PST by malamute
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To: raybbr
Holy crap! Thats what I heard a little while ago. And, I live about 12 miles from there. How far is Middletown from Lebanon?
Regards,
GtG
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posted on
02/07/2010 10:26:59 AM PST
by
Gandalf_The_Gray
(I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
To: Gandalf_The_Gray
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posted on
02/07/2010 10:28:27 AM PST
by
SE Mom
To: malamute
WFSB-TV Hartford:
Middletown, Conn. — Police in Middletown said there was an explosion with mass casualties just before 11:30 a.m. at the Kleen Energy plant on River Road.
Sources said at least 250 people were injured with at least two people confirmed dead.
St. Francis and Yale-New Haven Hospitals were on disaster standby to take in injured people from the scene.
Fire departments from around the area are responding.
WFSB has received calls from people from as far as Higganum, Meriden, Prospect and Naugatuck who said that their homes shook from the force of the explosion.
E-mails and calls from viewers also reported shelves and pictures falling from walls inside homes from the force of the explosion.
http://www.wfsb.com/news/22491279/detail.html#
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posted on
02/07/2010 10:28:34 AM PST
by
tcrlaf
(Obama White House=Tammany Hall on the National Mall)
To: Gandalf_The_Gray
How far is Middletown from Lebanon?Looks to be about 25 miles, too.
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posted on
02/07/2010 10:32:11 AM PST
by
raybbr
To: raybbr
I'm leaning more toward the reports of "bodies everywhere" considering the magnitude of this explosion.
It's hard to gather more details in between Super Bowl hype.
sw
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posted on
02/07/2010 10:34:13 AM PST
by
spectre
(Spectre's wife (11/02/10)
To: John W
Startup’s a 24/7 business.
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posted on
02/07/2010 10:34:32 AM PST
by
mainevet
To: malamute
I wouldn’t be surprised if I-91 was shutdown or still is shutdown.
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posted on
02/07/2010 10:35:42 AM PST
by
Man50D
(Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
To: mainevet
Oh, believe me I know. My point was it doesn’t have to be.
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posted on
02/07/2010 10:36:00 AM PST
by
John W
To: malamute
Prayers for all involved.
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posted on
02/07/2010 10:38:09 AM PST
by
tiredoflaundry
(I will not be silenced.)
To: chuck_the_tv_out
loss of sealing oil for the hydrogen in the turbineIf that is 'journalistically correct' (ie, completely wrong but has all the right words according to the editor), the 'engineer provided' causal info was probably 'loss of sealing oil for the hydrogen in the turbine-generator'. That is to say that the [possibly upwards of 300 MVA] generator (or major auxilliary, like the hydrogen cooler) blew up when > 5 % air mixed with <95% hydrogen, which would be an explosive mixture, was ignited by a spark or flame. Doesn't happen often, and there are multiple redundancies to avoid hydrogen explosions like this. Tragic, loss of life on construction sites always seem uncalled for. pray for all concerned.
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posted on
02/07/2010 10:38:24 AM PST
by
CRBDeuce
(here, while the internet is still free of the Fairness Doctrine)
To: spectre
I’m surprised my wife hasn’t been called in. She works both at Yale and St. Raphael’s in New Haven. She has to work tonight so I suspect she’ll swamped.
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posted on
02/07/2010 10:41:41 AM PST
by
raybbr
To: John W; mainevet
If it’s not, you’re risking operations down the road.
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posted on
02/07/2010 10:41:57 AM PST
by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
To: spectre
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posted on
02/07/2010 10:42:24 AM PST
by
TornadoAlley3
(Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
To: CRBDeuce
“major auxilliary, like the hydrogen cooler”
someone I was speaking to wondered out loud the other day whether H2 is actually used for cooling in the synchronous machine. My lecture notes say it is, but they were questioning them
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posted on
02/07/2010 10:43:13 AM PST
by
chuck_the_tv_out
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To: Man50D
More likely Rt. 9, which passes through Middletown.
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posted on
02/07/2010 10:44:14 AM PST
by
alecqss
To: TornadoAlley3
Oh my. Prayers for all involved.
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posted on
02/07/2010 10:44:19 AM PST
by
Velveeta
To: Gondring
I never thought Siemens made as good a product as GE or Mitsubishi. Noticed that North American Energy Services got the contract to operate. I worked as an O&M Tech for NAES about a year. Without a doubt, some NAES employees are either dead or injured. I wonder who is doing BP starup?
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posted on
02/07/2010 10:45:27 AM PST
by
mainevet
To: John W
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posted on
02/07/2010 10:45:27 AM PST
by
mainevet
To: chuck_the_tv_out
loss of sealing oil for the hydrogen in the turbineon the other hand if the 'source' really meant to say loss of sealing oil in the turbine it could have been a natural gas explosion as others have reported.
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posted on
02/07/2010 10:46:02 AM PST
by
CRBDeuce
(here, while the internet is still free of the Fairness Doctrine)
To: malamute
If you can believe some of the comments on the channel 8
WTNH website, the explosion was heard or felt at incredible distances (I am 30 miles from there and did not hear it, but people at even greater distances have reported heariong the blast). You can't place too much faith in anonymously-sourced unconfirmed comments on the Internet, but some are claiming fatality figures that are extremely shocking...
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posted on
02/07/2010 10:47:49 AM PST
by
Zeppo
("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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