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Rockybar posted:Yikes. Nice hate crime, politicising an unpreventable tragedy. Thoughts and prayers with the victims. How was it unpreventable? That's a genuine question, btw. I have natural gas as does much of my neighbourhood and if something similar happened here there's no way it would be viewed as unpreventable.
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Be safe Mass goons. 
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Sep 13, 2018 23:11
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https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1040357993651609600 From the post above me, it looks like Columbia Gas is gonna be in a world of poo poo.
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Rockybar posted:UNPREVENTABLE! It looks like they overpressurised the lines. Someone find a robot to blame. https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1040362130157916160
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Do it ironically posted:how the gently caress does that happen It's probably automated and some sensor isn't working and the fail-safes don't work either because nothing has been maintained properly.
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Sep 13, 2018 23:21
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z59Qlu40TzE
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autism ZX spectrum posted:I can almost guarantee you it's deferred maintenance on aging equipment kept in check only by ad-hoc informal policies that went against safety regulations and were only really known by the guys that worked on the systems. You chain enough of these systemic failures together and you end up with poo poo like this. It'll turn out that pressure regulator (Y) was temperamental so you had to operate valves in a, b, c order but only under condition (X) or you'd end up with an over pressure event or some poo poo like that. If anyone manually over-rode an automatic shutdown or an alarm (tell me it's designed to automatically shutdown if it detects an overpressure event), they're in for a world of hurt.
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Sep 14, 2018 02:54
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autism ZX spectrum posted:It's probably going to be a game of hot potato and the last dude to touch the thing that broke should change his name and move asap. We'll find out when we watch the Seconds From Disaster episode.
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Sep 14, 2018 03:15
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Apart from the immediate damage and inconvenience, I can't even imagine how long it's going to take to repair and restore the gas service to the area.
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Sep 14, 2018 03:40
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im depressed lol posted:If it's as bad as I'm imagining, consider that a lot of appliances such as clothes dryers and cooking stoves in the Northeast run on natural gas. One reason I like having gas hot water and gas cooking is that at least we can still shower and cook if the electricity is out - and can cook in an electric frypan or crockpot if the gas is out. I guess the dryer thing would be a bitch for people who live in apartments (domestic dryers are electric here). I assume there's a good chance they'll cut the power while doing street by street repairs, too, just be be on the safe side.
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Sep 14, 2018 04:32
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im depressed lol posted:I'm having this weird, hypothetical ultimate failure scenario floating in my head. In which home heating systems, hot water heaters etc. etc. all need to be repaired individually in addition to whatever basic infrastructure needs to be repaired. I've got an isolation tap for both my stove and my hot water service and another at my gas meter. The ones at the appliances aren't meant to withstand the same pressure as the one at the meter and that one's not meant to withstand the same pressure as the mains in the street. So yeah, there's a good chance that all of the pipes and valves will need to be checked at best and replaced at worst. Many people who evacuated won't even know whether their individual home developed a gas leak and it won't be safe for them to return until that's checked.
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autism ZX spectrum posted:Should hook this thread up to the Massachusetts gas system
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