From: dannyb@panix.com
In David Lesher writes:
>Your gas utility goes to to GREAT lengths to keep the gas from
>failing. If it does, it's an enormous economic hit to them.
>I recall ~50 years ago the utility lost gas pressure to a
>part of a suburb. They had to go to each house, shut off the
>gas at the meter, then restart the gas in that neighborhood
>and bleed. Then go to each house again, open, and light every
>appliance. Repeat in neighborhood after neighborhood.
>It took days.
Youngster. Ptfui. How's about when they switched over
from (so-called) "Town Gas" to natural gas. Same problem.
Had to shut down everyone and then reconfigure all
those burners...
Or... when the parts of the US that were transferred
and merged into the sixty cycle electric grid...
>As I recall, much of NYC lacks natural gas distribution, but in
>places where disasters have hit, the gas is often the utility that
>keeps going.
Only a small portion of NYC is natural gas deprived. There
are areas next to the ocean where buildings were badly
damamged enough that the utility shut off all fuel
to the neighborhood.
There are similar, and more widespread, issues where
lots of NJ and Long Island just Isn't There anymore.
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