From: ahk@chinet.com

Nobody  wrote:
>"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.

>And don't forget, at some stage, to relate that this was an
>above-ground structure, not an underground, buried feeder.

If it was above ground (which I didn't read in newspaper reports), that
would make it less likely to get damaged by a backhoe.

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