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Posted: 1/8/2009 7:51:11 AM EST
Somebody sure fucked up.
The only story I found on it was at http://www.ehowa.com/features/callbeforeyoudig.shtml NSFW 
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Posted: 1/8/2009 7:52:30 AM EST
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WOW!
Story? |
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Posted: 1/8/2009 7:52:34 AM EST
[#2]
Yes somebody sure did!
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Posted: 1/8/2009 7:53:04 AM EST
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Everyone ok?
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Posted: 1/8/2009 7:53:18 AM EST
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That will ruin your day.
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Posted: 1/8/2009 7:53:30 AM EST
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wowza! that is a little more impressive than cutting the 1/2" plastic line that went to our house. ( i wasn't aware we even had gas, since the house is all electric.)
-matt |
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Posted: 1/8/2009 7:53:42 AM EST
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That won't buff out
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Posted: 1/8/2009 7:54:01 AM EST
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mmmmm whoopsie..
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Posted: 1/8/2009 7:54:41 AM EST
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There are two houses right in the blast zone. Hopefully no one was home.
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Posted: 1/8/2009 7:54:45 AM EST
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OUCH!
JULIE like a mf'er. 
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Posted: 1/8/2009 7:55:25 AM EST
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Posted: 1/8/2009 7:55:31 AM EST
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ehhhhh Ive cut em before ............
the lil ones just stick a hotdog in em to stop the gas flow and go back to work till the gas company gets there. |
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Posted: 1/8/2009 7:55:44 AM EST
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So how much $$ in fuel would that run?
Is it legal? 
That seems a whole lot more impressive then a jug a Tannerite. -JTP |
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Posted: 1/8/2009 7:55:47 AM EST
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There is a company in Mont Belvieu that does pipeline work. Every now and then they leave their gate open and you can see a couple of trenching machines in the back that were involved in a pipeline fire. There's not much left of them.
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Posted: 1/8/2009 7:56:14 AM EST
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isolated global warming . nothing to see
john |
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Posted: 1/8/2009 7:57:20 AM EST
[#15]
WOW, I bet that would have been cool to see from a mile away. I hope everyone is ok.
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Posted: 1/8/2009 7:59:00 AM EST
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Back in the 60s when I worked for the gas company, we would tap a new service line with the pressure still on on the main. Made for some exciting moments withe roar of escaping gas and dust and rocks flying everywhere. Dont think OSHA will let them do that anymore!
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Posted: 1/8/2009 7:59:18 AM EST
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Everyone ok? I would guess no. Just a wild guess though. |
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Posted: 1/8/2009 8:01:25 AM EST
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Whoops! My bad.
I bet that looked pretty cool from a distance. |
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Posted: 1/8/2009 8:05:30 AM EST
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I do not see any evidence of digging having gone on. It does look like someone would have been killed in the house that took the blast. Cars in the driveway are not good to see.
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Posted: 1/8/2009 8:06:04 AM EST
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ehhhhh Ive cut em before ............ the lil ones just stick a hotdog in em to stop the gas flow and go back to work till the gas company gets there. You carry emergency hot dogs in your truck when you're digging? I would have thought a pair of vice grips might've been a little more likely to have on hand. |
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Posted: 1/8/2009 8:06:56 AM EST
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Whoops! My bad. I bet that looked pretty cool from a distance orbit. I wonder what the hell they were digging with to hit and breach that big of a pipe buried so deep. Whatever it was isn't in big enough pieces to recognize anymore, and neither is the person who was manning it. I just hope the people in those homes had enough time to escape. 
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Posted: 1/8/2009 8:07:31 AM EST
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Everyone ok? 
I hope you're joking... |
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Posted: 1/8/2009 8:08:14 AM EST
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I do not see any evidence of digging having gone on. It does look like someone would have been killed in the house that took the blast. Cars in the driveway are not good to see. +1 Looks like a leak, no heavy equipment or evidence of any having been there. ETA: Checked the linked site. Claims a person was using a post hole digger and punched a hole. |
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Posted: 1/8/2009 8:08:24 AM EST
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Maybe they should have used some bent coat hangers to find the pipe first.
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Posted: 1/8/2009 8:08:31 AM EST
[#25]
That's going to leave a mark
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Posted: 1/8/2009 8:11:27 AM EST
[#26]
tag
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Posted: 1/8/2009 8:11:29 AM EST
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ehhhhh Ive cut em before ............ the lil ones just stick a hotdog in em to stop the gas flow and go back to work till the gas company gets there. You carry emergency hot dogs in your truck when you're digging? I would have thought a pair of vice grips might've been a little more likely to have on hand. gas company gets pissed when you use vise grips .... it fucks up the plastic line and they have to cut off where you crimped it. Usually if its a clean cut they just will cut off any bad portion and use a slip on connector that looks like a big dildo and slip each side of the line into it and it locks onto the line making an airtight seal. Its pretty slick actually. |
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Posted: 1/8/2009 8:13:12 AM EST
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I do not see any evidence of digging having gone on. It does look like someone would have been killed in the house that took the blast. Cars in the driveway are not good to see. +1 Looks like a leak, no heavy equipment or evidence of any having been there. ETA: Checked the linked site. Claims a person was using a post hole digger and punched a hole. Ah, that would do it. I can not believe they would not know of a big pipeline going through the area. |
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Posted: 1/8/2009 8:15:52 AM EST
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I do not see any evidence of digging having gone on. It does look like someone would have been killed in the house that took the blast. Cars in the driveway are not good to see. +1 Looks like a leak, no heavy equipment or evidence of any having been there. ETA: Checked the linked site. Claims a person was using a post hole digger and punched a hole. Ah, that would do it. I can not believe they would not know of a big pipeline going through the area. The walls on those big pipe are thin enough to be pierced with a post hole digger? Holy crap! 
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Posted: 1/8/2009 8:17:26 AM EST
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Posted: 1/8/2009 8:18:16 AM EST
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Doesn't appear to be any evidence of a backhoe or drilling rig in the photo where the explosion occurred.
I've heard of underground pipeline ruptures due to corrosion being touched off above ground as the natural gas escapes to the atmosphere. Touched off by a railroad crossing signal, if memory serves me correctly. A Koch pipeline? This isn't it, but it would be very interesting to find out what happened with this one. |
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Posted: 1/8/2009 8:18:19 AM EST
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I do not see any evidence of digging having gone on. It does look like someone would have been killed in the house that took the blast. Cars in the driveway are not good to see. +1 Looks like a leak, no heavy equipment or evidence of any having been there. ETA: Checked the linked site. Claims a person was using a post hole digger and punched a hole. Ah, that would do it. I can not believe they would not know of a big pipeline going through the area. The walls on those big pipe are thin enough to be pierced with a post hole digger? Holy crap!
It would have to have been one attached to a tractor. Though looking at it again and based on the shadows, it appears the pipeline was about 5 feet deep. Why would someone dig a posthole 5 foot deep? I would like to here some type of official story other than a second hand one. |
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Posted: 1/8/2009 8:20:25 AM EST
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For some reason I seriously doubt that post hole diggers are going to penetrate a cross country gas line.
Not to mention that the pipe is 15' below grade. |
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Posted: 1/8/2009 8:20:28 AM EST
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I do not see any evidence of digging having gone on. It does look like someone would have been killed in the house that took the blast. Cars in the driveway are not good to see. +1 Looks like a leak, no heavy equipment or evidence of any having been there. ETA: Checked the linked site. Claims a person was using a post hole digger and punched a hole. Ah, that would do it. I can not believe they would not know of a big pipeline going through the area. The walls on those big pipe are thin enough to be pierced with a post hole digger? Holy crap!
It would have to have been one attached to a tractor. Though looking at it again and based on the shadows, it appears the pipeline was about 5 feet deep. Why would someone dig a posthole 5 foot deep? I would like to here some type of official story other than a second hand one. Most fence posts go down 4 feet or more depending on the size of the fence. I am sorry but no post hole digger would be able to punch through that pipe. |
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Posted: 1/8/2009 8:20:31 AM EST
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Posted: 1/8/2009 8:23:11 AM EST
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I do not see any evidence of digging having gone on. It does look like someone would have been killed in the house that took the blast. Cars in the driveway are not good to see. +1 Looks like a leak, no heavy equipment or evidence of any having been there. ETA: Checked the linked site. Claims a person was using a post hole digger and punched a hole. is he alright? |
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Posted: 1/8/2009 8:25:21 AM EST
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Anybody got some weenies? Yes, I called Miss Utility when I had to do some digging in my yard. Shit, by the time the phone, cable, power, gas, and water lines were marked I couldn't dig much anywhere.
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Posted: 1/8/2009 8:26:10 AM EST
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Alien spacecraft crash! They are here!
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Posted: 1/8/2009 8:26:12 AM EST
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Thanks. Amazing no one was killed. |
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Posted: 1/8/2009 8:26:35 AM EST
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I do not see any evidence of digging having gone on. It does look like someone would have been killed in the house that took the blast. Cars in the driveway are not good to see. +1 Looks like a leak, no heavy equipment or evidence of any having been there. ETA: Checked the linked site. Claims a person was using a post hole digger and punched a hole. is he alright? If you look at the size of the pipe as well as the thickness of the pipe, you would not be able to punch through that pipe. Look how the pipe is peeled back, they have to uses a extremely strong pipe to deal with those type of pressures. |
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Posted: 1/8/2009 8:27:04 AM EST
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That will buff right out
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Posted: 1/8/2009 8:29:48 AM EST
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In the first pic you can see a burning hunk of what looks like a tractor just to the right of the house in the bottom of the picture. I'd guess that was the tractor with the post hole digger the guy was using. Given the size of the crater, I think it's very possible that the blast threw the tractor that far from ground zero....I doubt the guy running the post hole digger survived.
The blast would have been incredible to create a crater of that size. I doubt anyone within 50+ yards could have survived the psi spike. ETA: From the other link, it looks like nobody was killed and they claim to not know why the pipe ruptured. Hmmm... |
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Posted: 1/8/2009 8:30:04 AM EST
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are those pictures on your photobucket account?
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Posted: 1/8/2009 8:30:49 AM EST
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are those pictures on your photobucket account? No, someone sent those links to me. |
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Posted: 1/8/2009 8:30:51 AM EST
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for the past two years i have attended a pipe line safety lecture. they covered calling before digging, marker identification, how to react in the even of an occurance. anyone that works in a construction related field should attend something like this.
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Posted: 1/8/2009 8:30:56 AM EST
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That there is what you call "scorched earth."
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Posted: 1/8/2009 8:32:55 AM EST
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That tractor is probably in the next county over.
I was living in Fort Worth when that gas line was busted near down town at Frank Kent Cadillac in the mid 80's. That was a very impressive blast, fucked up all sorts of buildings around it. |
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Posted: 1/8/2009 8:33:12 AM EST
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In the first pic you can see a burning hunk of what looks like a tractor just to the right of the house in the bottom of the picture. I'd guess that was the tractor with the post hole digger the guy was using. Given the size of the crater, I think it's very possible that the blast threw the tractor that far from ground zero....I doubt the guy running the post hole digger survived. The blast would have been incredible to create a crater of that size. I doubt anyone within 50+ yards could have survived the psi spike. Read: http://www.policelink.com/topics/30588-gas-line-explosion/posts |
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Posted: 1/8/2009 8:34:23 AM EST
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In the first pic you can see a burning hunk of what looks like a tractor just to the right of the house in the bottom of the picture. I'd guess that was the tractor with the post hole digger the guy was using. Given the size of the crater, I think it's very possible that the blast threw the tractor that far from ground zero....I doubt the guy running the post hole digger survived. The blast would have been incredible to create a crater of that size. I doubt anyone within 50+ yards could have survived the psi spike. Reading the other link it looks as if it was just a pipeline rupture. Nothing to do with any posthole digging. Also, no one was killed. There were a few injuries, but the line ruptured and did not ignite until the people escaped. |
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Posted: 1/8/2009 8:34:48 AM EST
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