WHATS GOING ON IN EAST BAY. SF???

[Joe Hadenuf]

Breaking news says everyone get inside and cover cracks in doors and windows with wet towels due to refinery incident?? Anyone have any info. Is this SF?

[Angelique]

I cain't! My chimely cap blew off an now the danged heat-o-lator rusted through, as did my damper along with my fireplace insert!!!

Sounds like yer fireplace blew it's stack.

Doze folks should get bottled water.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

That would be interesting if the refinery problem occurred in the same time frame as the drop in load!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

OK they say the electrical problem triggered the refinery problem, where does Philips send the bill?

We might want to start a new thread so we can discuss this without all of the extraneous junk!

[exDemMom]

BTW - Both sides of my family have been hanging around America for at least 12 generations

Danged newcomers.

[goodieD]

geez if something like that happened here in Fresno, we'd die. It was about 108 here today..no air conditioning? I'd be dead in an hour.

[goodieD]

French is one of those languages that you can tell someone to F off and it sounds like you're proposing.. of course to some people it's the same thing ;)

[exDemMom]

Ach Du Lieber!

Papion,papion...

Kannst mir mal sagen, was los mit "SCHMETTERLING" sein sollte?

Traduisez, s'il vous plaît, si ce n'est pas trop difficile et ça ne vous dérange pas trop.

[Grampa Dave]

We were returning from baby sitting in eastern Contra Costa County from 4:30 pm to 5 ish on 4 west bound.

I could see the dark smoke about 30 miles away when we got west of Antioch.

Being familiar with this stuff, it looked like an unplanned burnoff. (Unplanned due to electrical power reliability or an unplanned incidence.)

As we exited off of the Cummings Skyway to go on 80 North, we could see the tower with a big controlled flame and a lot of black smoke in the burnoff phase. It was a big burnoff and a lot of black smoke. We were within a mile or so of the tower.

The refineriers are very old. The enviral nazis and the anti oil/gas/driving/suv nazis have not allowed a new refinery to be built in N. Kali for probably at lease a decade. A hot day like today with flucuating electrical power could have caused this unplanned incidence which resulted in the huge burnoff. Our gasoline prices will probably go oup 10 cents per gallon before the weekend.

We are at the same critical state of old gasoline refineries barely able to keep up with the demand just like what caused our blackouts in 2000/2001. The same clymers are at fault. The enviral nazis and those communists who hate anyone who drives any vehicle. They have not allowed any new gasoline refineries.

Then we have a double whammy. We have the mandated carcinogen MTBE in our gas. So we can't import cheaper gas from Nevada, Oregon or Arizona if we have a problem.

[American Preservative]

Thanks for the FReport Grampa Dave.

Thread ping.

[Don Myers]

"Can I have your Freeper Join-by date?

Can I have your social security number?

Can I have the charge card numbers?

Can I have your first born child?"

Ok, let me put in for your home, car,bank account, wife, daughters, and pets. Did I leave anything out?

[altair]

Can I have your Freeper Join-by date?
Can I have your social security number?
Can I have the charge card numbers?
Can I have your first born child?
My husband wants any property he might have.
Can I have the cookware and the wine cellar?
Can I have your mother's recipe collection?

Can I have the keys to the car?

[EggsAckley]

burnin' down the house.....?

[bootless]

Hi -

I was crawling through Don Castro's Valley, too. 45 minutes from the Hayward Airport to C.V. Blvd. Both banks I had to visit were closed - no power. But the Long's next door to the United Cal Bank was open.

Went to San Ramon, in search of another bank - a crawl down the canyon, mostly, into CV. Quel drag. Wasted a lot of time watching the locals botch the four way stop. I didn't know you were an East Bayer, too!

[snopercod]

#97 and #79, please.

[snopercod]

From today's Oakland Tribune:

"Parts of Hayward and Castro Valley had no choice but to conserve after separate incidents -- a power line fell and an underground switch failed -- cutting power to 9,000 people for an hour starting at 4 p.m."

[snopercod]

Please read #79 and #97

[OldFriend]

How about taking my mortgage while you're at it!

[Doc-Joe]

Refinery fires/incidents are a fact of life in Contra Costa County. I lived in Concord for seven years, up until 1999. I couldn't even begin to count how many "emergencies" we had while residing there. The most memorable ones were the Shell refinery fire in Martinez which blackened the sky over my house for hours and the Tosco explosion (the cracker unit?) which felt like it picked up and dropped my home. Unless the stats have changed, Contra Costa has the second highest number of industrial smokestacks for any county in the US. I guess frequent incidents are to be expected.

[ohioman]

I heard that a fat fag was lighting up his flatulence.

[That Subliminal Kid]

YES!