From: finfer@optonline.net

On 5/15/2014 9:05 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> For those of you on Usenet so enamored of the safety record of pipelines
> for transportation of oil, you may not want to read about last night's
> disaster:
>
> A ruptured oil pipe near the suburb of Glendale has spilled about
> 10,000 gallons of crude oil onto streets; initial reports had the spill
> at 50,000 gallons. The leak from a 20 inch pipe was reported as 12:15
> am. Thursay, May 15, 2014. It was shut off remotely within 10 minutes of
> firemen arriving. Despite the shut off, the spill continued for at least
> 45 minutes.
>
> A strip club had to be evacuated.
>
> The pipe was under pressure; oil was seen shooting 20 feet into the sky.
>
> The oil came from Bakersfield. It's a pumping transfer station sending
> oil to a storage facility near Bakersfield.
>

It might have been entertaining to watch that evacuation.  Performers in
various states of undress and customers hiding their faces like it was a
perp walk.

Michael Finfer
Bridgewater, NJ

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