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Truck driver transporting natural gas crashes into Schenectady County bridge, causing massive blast (New York)
NY Daily News ^ | 12-22-23 | EVAN ROSEN

Posted on 12/22/2023 3:56:15 PM PST by dynachrome

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Big boom. Other stories say it was a propane truck.
1 posted on 12/22/2023 3:56:15 PM PST by dynachrome
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To: dynachrome

NG is normally not trucked, at least around here.


2 posted on 12/22/2023 4:03:55 PM PST by OSHA (Dale Carnegie has a restraining order against me.)
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Most journalists don’t know the difference between NG and propane, or even that there is a difference.


3 posted on 12/22/2023 4:05:30 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: dynachrome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maX9TK114ns


4 posted on 12/22/2023 4:06:38 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

Must have been propane.

There was a family in Arkansas a year or two ago who were blown to pieces when their propane tank exploded.


5 posted on 12/22/2023 4:10:02 PM PST by packagingguy
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Don’t remind me. I need to move our tank farther from the house one of these days. Oh well, it hasn’t exploded yet...


6 posted on 12/22/2023 4:11:59 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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Yoiks! Must have been a full truck.


7 posted on 12/22/2023 4:16:56 PM PST by dynachrome (War does not determine who is right, but who is left.)
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To: OSHA

Close up video
A tractor-trailer carrying propane tanks has reportedly hit the Maple Avenue Bridge in Glenville, NY
https://rumble.com/v42u5qk-a-tractor-trailer-carrying-propane-tanks-has-reportedly-hit-the-maple-avenu.html


8 posted on 12/22/2023 4:17:22 PM PST by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

I need to move our tank farther from the house one of these days.
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In ground is also an option.


9 posted on 12/22/2023 4:28:08 PM PST by pa_dweller (Let's all go out for ice cream.)
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To: dynachrome

Happy New Year! Woot! Woot!

Loves me some freeper humor, right about now!

Go big, or GO HOME!


10 posted on 12/22/2023 4:33:59 PM PST by freepersup (“Those who conceal crimes are preparing to commit new ones.” ~Vuk Draskovic~)
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It’s amazing the driver survived.

My son is a trucker. He had a bad crash a few weeks ago. A full school bus pulled out in front of hm. He rolled his dump truck and 40,000 pound load when he swerved to miss them. The first cop to arrive called for life flight. (My buddy is on the crew and said they were headed to the copter when they got the stand down order.

The cab was absolutely crushed yet my son walked away without serious injury.


11 posted on 12/22/2023 4:38:03 PM PST by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: OSHA

Agree...we have pipelines all over the place. This must be for a particular “site”.


12 posted on 12/22/2023 4:38:45 PM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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I still remember when the KCS train car filled with liquid propane exploded and almost destroyed the town of Noel Mo back in 1969. We heard about it on AFRTS radio in SE Asia.

The blast woke dad out of a dead sleep and he was 25 miles away.
Noel used to be a great place to vacation in SW Missouri. After the blast it began to go downhill and is nothing like it’s former self.


13 posted on 12/22/2023 4:48:48 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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My friend in the old days Drove by a propane delivery truck. He got fired when his boss passed his truck on the highway and the hose was dragging along behind.


14 posted on 12/22/2023 4:50:01 PM PST by mirkwood (W3)
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Too much digging for this old man.


15 posted on 12/22/2023 4:52:37 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: dynachrome

The late writer Harlan Ellison (”The City on the Edge of Forever” episode of Star Trek, etc.) ran away from home in Ohio and lied about his age to get a job as a dynamite truck driver in North Carolina. Someone nitpicked later “dynamite isn’t as unstable as other explosives.” Comforting.


16 posted on 12/22/2023 4:53:20 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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NG is normally not trucked, at least around here.

There's a small infrastructure in place for servicing vehicles fueled with Compressed Natural Gas. We have a site in the village near me. Not near any pipeline, so deliveries would be by truck. It's a stupid technology, but that doesn't stop the politicians from subsidizing it.

17 posted on 12/22/2023 5:01:06 PM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
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In the old days dynamite was pretty unstable. The movie “Wages of Fear” is a nail biter.


18 posted on 12/22/2023 5:08:36 PM PST by dynachrome (War does not determine who is right, but who is left.)
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In the old days dynamite was pretty unstable. The movie “Wages of Fear” is a nail biter.

The movie "Sorcerer" was a remake of that story, but with a Tangerine Dream music score!

19 posted on 12/22/2023 5:23:16 PM PST by Disambiguator
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A section of I-95 in Phildelphia was closed for several weeks earlier this year due to a similar occurrence.

I hesitate to call either an “accident”.


20 posted on 12/22/2023 6:03:30 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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