WasInTheBag
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    Dec 24, 2020#11

    Back in 1988 a propane truck overturned on the south end of the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway. Fire Departments from half the island responded; while bending the elbow at a Westbury saloon a fire chief I knew explained how propane sinks and expands. He said if the fire went out and the gas got into the sewer system, the explosion would put Seaford in Connecticut.

    Tidbit: the driver, Roger Vai, is guitarist Steve Vai's brother.

    https://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/25/nyre ... affic.html
    “I come in peace,” Mattis recalled telling them. “I didn’t bring artillery. But I’m pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you fuck with me, I’ll kill you all.”

    Slappy27
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      Dec 24, 2020#12

      My best friend's nephew was killed in the 70s driving a tanker truck in Jacksonville Florida. They moved to Florida from NYC and the kid was killed about a year later in a fiery crash, he apparently swerved and rolled over to avoid a disabled car with a family in it.

      NYCTPF
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        Dec 24, 2020#13

        Did you say..."Gas in the sewers...."



          Dec 24, 2020#14

          Always wondered  why manhole covers were always bolted down around  the UN before a major event or presidential visits anywhere in the city.....That security concept was creating a mega bomb if there was a gas leak combined with a con ed electrical short..! 

          I have personally  been a witness to manhole covers being blown sky high in the 19th and in the 46 pcts from the combo of gas and electrical explosions.. One (about 3ft in diameter) weighing several hundred pounds, landed on the roof of a 6 story building on Webster ave in the 46. If that sucker had been bolted down, that whole section of street would of gone sky high!
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