Thousands of Natural Gas Leaks Found in Boston!!! | |
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my2centsworth User ID: 5382682 Canada 11/26/2012 01:06 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I wonder how many of us live in cities with the same problem, but we just don't know about it? You can bet your bottom dollar, that if it's this bad in Boston, there are most certainly other cities that had better get their equipment out and start checking where their danger spots are as well. |
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Indego User ID: 26952081 United States 11/26/2012 01:40 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Could it be related to massive waves from hurricane sandy ... They were registering all over ther rictor scale and that region is not designed for multiple quakes . Could sandys wake have ruptured the gaslines? The ramifications of this could be catastrophic VLR!! |
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RoteDiablo User ID: 28415635 United States 11/26/2012 02:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | We have an abandoned flood house next to us. About a month after we moved in I started catching whiffs of natural gas coming from the front of this house. Called the gas company. They came out and said they weren't going to do anything about it and that leaks like this (from underground pipes) were common throughout the city (Cedar Rapids, IA.) They are "harmless" the technician told me. I wasn't having it so I called and after three visits the last technician said he convinced someone higher up to fix it. They repaired the leaky pipe the next day. It's scary they say this is a common problem and then ignore it? Sounds like a recipe for disaster. I can only imagine what the infrastructure is like in other cities and I speculate that the attitude towards these leaks is the same in other areas too. |
MarkinAZ User ID: 20006444 United States 11/26/2012 02:16 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The cast iron piping that was used for gas main feeds and for lines from the feed to the house meters was installed as far back as 150 years. That was "state of the art" then. Sadly, cast iron will rust thru in time, and the joints (most are screwed together with exterior couplings and both ends of the pipe having male threads joining in the female coupling) tend to work themselves loose over years of expansion and contraction with every freeze/thaw cycle. Many older cities put these pipes above the water and sewer lines but supposedly below the frost line. However, getting the frost line location "right" was largely a guess back then. So much of this piping is not buried deeply enough to avoid the freeze/thaw cycle every year. Today we have PEX Plastics with Aluminum embedded in them and they're joined by being welded together. The weld is stronger than the pipe itself and cannot leak once done properly. Every major gas company in the nation should have been digging up and replacing these old cast iron pipe distribution systems for the last 50 years and yet almost none have! Why? Corporate profits? Wonder what the lawsuits are going to cost them? How will those 30 and 50 million dollar settlements (several of them) look on their precious balance sheets? |
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itsamadmadworld User ID: 28477346 United States 11/26/2012 02:35 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I wonder how many of us live in cities with the same problem, but we just don't know about it? Quoting: my2centsworth You can bet your bottom dollar, that if it's this bad in Boston, there are most certainly other cities that had better get their equipment out and start checking where their danger spots are as well. Please scroll to Page 9 The U.S. natural gas system is a complex network of interconnected high-volume, high-pressure pipelines [link to www.dis.anl.gov] |
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closing eyes User ID: 24721119 United States 11/26/2012 03:03 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thats scary, it just takes a spark here or there. I hope they get on that right away and start repairing the leaks. With all the ground expansion, and everything else going on, geez mother nature give us a break. Please protect all bluebirds! ( i love bluebirds) If you woke up breathing, you have another chance! |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 21836117 Canada 11/26/2012 05:20 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Could it be related to massive waves from hurricane sandy ... They were registering all over ther rictor scale and that region is not designed for multiple quakes . Could sandys wake have ruptured the gaslines? Quoting: Indego The ramifications of this could be catastrophic Thats the second time I have heard about waves from Sandy fracturing lines and its got to be the most rediculous thing I have ever heard. Think about waves for a minute and then go back to school. There taliking about the whole of boston and suburbs inland for 100 miles. Earthquakes yes. Waves. Give me a break from the stupidy please. |
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Face Palmer User ID: 1149868 Germany 11/26/2012 07:21 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Everyone has its own gas leak. "The world will soon wake up to the reality that everyone is broke and can collect nothing from the bankrupt, who are owed unlimited amounts by the insolvent, who are attempting to make late payments on a bank holiday in the wrong country, with an unacceptable currency, against defaulted collateral, of which nobody is sure who holds title." Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. The woman who is not pursued sets up the doctrine that pursuit is offensive to her sex, and wants to make it a felony. No genuinely attractive woman has any such desire. - H.L. Mencken, In Defense Of Women |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 359264 United States 11/26/2012 08:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Uh oh...Guess its finally reaching its breaking point. Thread: Expanding Earth: Our Growing Planet - Conspiracy in Science (VIDEO MUST WATCH) |
Hitndahedfred User ID: 8963735 United States 11/26/2012 10:37 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Aging infrastructures all over the country are at "end of life" with NO provisions for replacements. Just look at our roads and bridges for one. Water, our outdated above ground electric. Leaning power poles. A real good "rumble" and it ALL will fail. Each time a person stands for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he or she sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. Few are willing to embrace the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change. [Robert F. Kennedy] [link to www.stricklychopped.com] [link to www.ghi-engrs.com] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 5366990 United States 11/27/2012 04:27 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Uh oh...Guess its finally reaching its breaking point. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 359264 Thread: Expanding Earth: Our Growing Planet - Conspiracy in Science (VIDEO MUST WATCH) Thousands huh? |