Bjerknes

"Top Economist"
Mar 16, 2004
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Man that fucking sucks, it's really fucked up, i'm still watching the stream.

I hope people had the chance to get out, but anyway just imagine your house and everything you've worked for getting burned like that, it's insane.
They probably didn't have a chance, at least in the few homes surrounding the original rupture.

Then following the original blast, the 20mph winds probably pushed the flames to other houses, and maybe other lines also exploded, heading around the local gas system until the lines were shutoff and contained.

Once a gas leak finds a spark, there isn't any time at all.
 

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L'autista
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Sep 23, 2003
84,989
San Bruno, CA, just blew up.
That stuff has been getting non-stop live TV coverage on all the major channels here for the past few hours.

Looking at those footage is scary. What a huge disaster
I think somebody was burning a Quran.

Yea I didn't hear a thing. Greg probably did though, I don't know where exactly he lives but he is on the same side of the water.
I didn't hear a thing either. I live about a 15 minute drive up north from there.
 

Bjerknes

"Top Economist"
Mar 16, 2004
117,052
From another forum:


I live about 2000 yards away and it was a big explosion. It sounded just like a jet turbine, but obviously wasn't.

I went down to the Kaiser hospital in SSF to try to donate blood, but they don't take donations. I'll try the blood center tomorrow.

The latest interesting thing is several of the residents are saying that they've smelled gas in the neighborhood for nearly a week and PG&E was notified. That could get interesting.
Disastrous. Hope PG&E gets raped with lawsuits.
 

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L'autista
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Sep 23, 2003
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I friggin' hate PG&E. Local politics, btw. Long story, but almost a century ago Congress passed a law mandating public power for SF and its environs:
http://www.sfbg.com/2010/05/25/public-power-landmark-and-battle-come

PG&E, technically an illegal monopoly, has resisted it every step of the way with well-funded campaigns. And nothing showed how foolish it was to trust PG&E over public power when I lived in Palo Alto, which has established its own municipal utilities district. A minor windstorm and Palo Alto all had power. Across the street in Menlo Park, where PG&E reigned, the entire neighborhood was blacked out.

Just two days ago we had this classic PG&E story:
http://sfappeal.com/alley/2010/09/fire-knocks-out-power-to-soma-pge-customers.php
A friggin' tenth of an inch of rain gets blamed for setting power lines on fire, causing an outage for 400 people.
 

icemaη

Rab's Husband - The Regista
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Aug 27, 2008
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you should be in San Bruno Mr. Fireman...
just back after visiting relatives on my dad's side... wearing black salwar kameez is definitely a bad idea... i'm sweating all over... gotta visit relatives on my mom's side after lunch...
 

blondu

Grazie Ale
Nov 9, 2006
27,408
Alin, today is the Fireman's day no? As I was on my way to office I saw some Fireman show. If so, happy fireman's day.
the official date is 13 september...but we are holding it today just because 13 is monday and school will start, so all the officialities and the little children (we're holding all sorts of cool stuff for the little ones) will be at school. In this way we can have public. Mersi frate :beer:
 

blondu

Grazie Ale
Nov 9, 2006
27,408
icεmαή;2683704 said:
you should be in San Bruno Mr. Fireman...
just back after visiting relatives on my dad's side... wearing black salwar kameez is definitely a bad idea... i'm sweating all over... gotta visit relatives on my mom's side after lunch...
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