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#1 Aug 18 2010 at 12:54 PM Rating: Excellent
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Okay, electrical shorts. I misread it. Smiley: frown

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(08-18) 11:10 PDT Atlantic City, N.J. (AP) --

Officials believe electrical shorts might be causing manhole explosions in New Jersey.

Manhole covers in Atlantic City blew in the air for the third straight day Tuesday. No one has been injured.

Firefighters say the five manholes that have exploded contained electrical equipment.


That would be amusing, from a safe distance.





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#2 Aug 18 2010 at 12:55 PM Rating: Good
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Sounds like a villainous plot right out of a cheesy superhero flick.
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#3 Aug 18 2010 at 12:57 PM Rating: Good
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1. Plant devices
2. Blow manholes
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4. Profit
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#4 Aug 18 2010 at 1:02 PM Rating: Excellent
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2. Blow manholes


Ew.
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#6 Aug 18 2010 at 1:12 PM Rating: Excellent
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That's okay, babe. We got Georgie:

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#7 Aug 18 2010 at 1:12 PM Rating: Good
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Jophiel wrote:
You women with your Venus butterfly battery-powered panties aren't so smug now, are you?
I thought that's what was supposed to happen.
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#8 Aug 18 2010 at 1:14 PM Rating: Good
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Samira wrote:
That's okay, babe. We got Georgie:


By running that correction ad the next day, they did way more harm than good for ole Georgie Boy.

Bastards. I'd burn the place down if I were George.
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#9 Aug 18 2010 at 1:17 PM Rating: Excellent
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Kaelesh wrote:
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That's okay, babe. We got Georgie:


By running that correction ad the next day, they did way more harm than good for ole Georgie Boy.

Bastards. I'd burn the place down if I were George.


Yeah, you know, even though it's the same picture I'd swear he looks happier in the left one.

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#10 Aug 18 2010 at 1:19 PM Rating: Excellent
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Kaelesh wrote:
Samira wrote:
That's okay, babe. We got Georgie:


By running that correction ad the next day, they did way more harm than good for ole Georgie Boy.

Bastards. I'd burn the place down if I were George.


I'd still have the original ad copied and placed strategically around the local college.

You know, for educational purposes.
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Samira wrote:
Electric shorts blow manholes


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I'm curious how that is possible. My guess is that the high voltage rapidly turned water into gas (which occupies vastly more volume), thus the air pressure actually tossed the manhole cover.
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I'm curious how that is possible. My guess is that the high voltage rapidly turned water into gas (which occupies vastly more volume), thus the air pressure actually tossed the manhole cover.


One of the commenters speculated that a methane gas build up in the sewer was ignited by a spark. Seems plausible to me.
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I'm curious how that is possible. My guess is that the high voltage rapidly turned water into gas (which occupies vastly more volume), thus the air pressure actually tossed the manhole cover.

I'd be very surprised if it was even possible for "high voltage" to heat sewer water fast enough to cause manhole covers to blow open.

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Fire Chief Dennis Brooks tells The Press of Atlantic City he saw a 200-pound cover shoot 10 feet in the air trailed by a yellowish-orange arc of electricity.

He says there was a deafening boom created by electricity "displacing the air in a confined space. Bam! It blows the top off."

Brooks says an electrical short from an underground utility box apparently caused the arc.

It sounds like there are shorts in some electrical circuitry beneath the manhole covers, which are causing some type of confined explosion, maybe in combination with the sewer gas.
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#15 Aug 18 2010 at 2:52 PM Rating: Good
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Where's that Disco Pants avatar?

Disco Pants > Electric Shorts

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Demea wrote:
yossarian wrote:
I'm curious how that is possible. My guess is that the high voltage rapidly turned water into gas (which occupies vastly more volume), thus the air pressure actually tossed the manhole cover.

I'd be very surprised if it was even possible for "high voltage" to heat sewer water fast enough to cause manhole covers to blow open.


Not heat water, electrolysis, producing oxygen and hydrogen gas - which is highly flammable.

But sewer gas, ya, more likely.
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Arc Flashes can cause some pretty serious explosions even without flammable gasses present. I have experienced one small one first hand. It was a 24V power supply that was 480V 3phase on the primary. It was not fused properly, and it shorted out when I turned on the power to the panel (door was open). The only fuses were the 45 amp main fuses to the machine. It took out those fuses, but not before annihilating the power supply. Luckily I was standing on the other side of the door when I turned the power on.

I have still be known to throw a couple 400A 3 phase breakers without proper protection... I guess one good pop could leave me missing half my face, but I always turn away from the break as I turn them on/off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6Im7PLduwc
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iClXrd50Z8
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#19 Aug 19 2010 at 7:30 AM Rating: Good
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Shaowstrike wrote:
Samira wrote:
Electric shorts blow manholes


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#20 Aug 19 2010 at 7:37 AM Rating: Excellent
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TirithRR wrote:
Arc Flashes can cause some pretty serious explosions even without flammable gasses present. I have experienced one small one first hand. It was a 24V power supply that was 480V 3phase on the primary. It was not fused properly, and it shorted out when I turned on the power to the panel (door was open). The only fuses were the 45 amp main fuses to the machine. It took out those fuses, but not before annihilating the power supply. Luckily I was standing on the other side of the door when I turned the power on.

I have still be known to throw a couple 400A 3 phase breakers without proper protection... I guess one good pop could leave me missing half my face, but I always turn away from the break as I turn them on/off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6Im7PLduwc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPJtknGmsys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iClXrd50Z8


You know how you read something and then for a few days or weeks your world view shifts to make room for the new information/world view/etc?

I just finished Jeffrey Deaver's The Burning Wire, which is why this story caught my eye. Now I'm wondering whether someone else read it too, and is experimenting.
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#21 Aug 19 2010 at 1:33 PM Rating: Excellent
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yossarian wrote:
I'm curious how that is possible. My guess is that the high voltage rapidly turned water into gas (which occupies vastly more volume), thus the air pressure actually tossed the manhole cover.


It was because ******** over there shut off the containment grid.
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#22 Aug 19 2010 at 4:29 PM Rating: Good
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Samira wrote:
You know how you read something and then for a few days or weeks your world view shifts to make room for the new information/world view/etc?

I just finished Jeffrey Deaver's The Burning Wire, which is why this story caught my eye. Now I'm wondering whether someone else read it too, and is experimenting.


That books sounds interesting. I think I'll have to find a copy.
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It was because ******** over there shut off the containment grid.

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#24 Aug 19 2010 at 5:46 PM Rating: Good
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It was because ******** over there shut off the containment grid.

"Is this true?"


Yes it's true - this man has no ****.
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It was because ******** over there shut off the containment grid.

"Is this true?"


Yes it's true - this man has no ****.

Apparently, according to something I've read, people still walk up to William Atherton on the streets and yell out at random "THIS MAN HAS NO ****!"
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#26 Aug 29 2010 at 10:58 AM Rating: Good
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TirithRR wrote:
Samira wrote:
You know how you read something and then for a few days or weeks your world view shifts to make room for the new information/world view/etc?

I just finished Jeffrey Deaver's The Burning Wire, which is why this story caught my eye. Now I'm wondering whether someone else read it too, and is experimenting.


That books sounds interesting. I think I'll have to find a copy.

The whole Lincolm Rhyme series by Deaver, of which The Burning Wire is the latest, is fascinating.

But it was the previous book in the series, The Broken Window, which gave me the most personal chills.

Um, let's not let Timelordwho anywhere near The Broken Window, k? Not that I fear him, of course. We're BFF. I just fear for the world with a more empowered TLW in it.
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