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2018-09-15 -Short Attention Span Theater-

What Caused Those Gas Explosions In Massachusetts? No One Seems To Know

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-09-15 08:21|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 tin hat on -

If I was in bulk oil* sales in New England, I'd be very concerned about the adoption of natural gas** as a replacement.

tin hat off.

* remembering past panics and price raises during the winter.
** now so abundant we export it.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-09-15 08:42|| 2018-09-15 08:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Suddenly over-pressurized lines blowing product past Chinese made valves and systems ?

Posted by Besoeker 2018-09-15 09:09|| 2018-09-15 09:09|| Front Page Top

#3 The first reports were overpressurized lines; Besoeker's explanation will probably turn out to be the correct one.

Also - Columbia Gas has been relieved of their duties in that area by Governor Charlie Baker (R-ino).

Posted by Raj 2018-09-15 09:47|| 2018-09-15 09:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Suddenly over-pressurized lines blowing product past Chinese made valves and systems ?

Suddenly over-pressured because some naughty person hacked into a SCADA system?

Posted by SteveS 2018-09-15 11:44|| 2018-09-15 11:44|| Front Page Top

#5 LowBid valve supplier.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-09-15 12:15|| 2018-09-15 12:15|| Front Page Top

#6 Someone made the red clam chowder.

Posted by swksvolFF 2018-09-15 13:34|| 2018-09-15 13:34|| Front Page Top

#7 Someone made the red clam chowder.

Serves them right.

Posted by gorb 2018-09-15 13:53|| 2018-09-15 13:53|| Front Page Top

#8 1) Possibly aging inferstructure
2) Possible shoddy workmanship in either maintence
or installation
3) Possible illegal tapping into the system by
" customers "
4) Possible work done by incompetent homeowners or
fly by night "contractors" extending natural
gas in their homes.
5) As stated above, crappy components
6) All of the above

Every so often with a natural gas system there will be accidents. Homes leveled by explosions or and fires. This goes beyond one home system though.

Posted by Cheaderhead 2018-09-15 15:25|| 2018-09-15 15:25|| Front Page Top

#9 off the pile...

On Cow Hill was heard to low Elsie,
A cultured alumna of Wellesley,
From her comfortable byre,
"Oh, I do abhor fire,
So thank goodness it ain't f----n' C-----a!"

regrettable heat-of-the-moment Islamophobic reportage...

SHAKSHOUKA DISASTER IN LAWRENCE
The gas was beyond all endurance.
It blew through his gown
And set fire to the town
In a wholely non-Muslim occurence!

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2018-09-15 17:22|| 2018-09-15 17:22|| Front Page Top

#10 GRU agents.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-09-15 17:31|| 2018-09-15 17:31|| Front Page Top

#11 speaking of reportage... can't put him on a coin, but maybe...

Blaine Hodge
Disdained camouflage
And cape: Such a lack of humility
In hodging his responsibility!

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2018-09-15 17:35|| 2018-09-15 17:35|| Front Page Top

#12 You been hacked. It's probably been on Shoden for months.

Posted by newc 2018-09-15 19:32|| 2018-09-15 19:32|| Front Page Top

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