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Warpy

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1. So far, it doesn't look that terible

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Thu Aug 31, 2017, 05:54 PM

Aug 2017

It looks like residual chemicals ruptured a pipe and caught fire. The main event hasn't happened and I hope power is restored quickly enough that it doesn't. My guess is that it's a top priority at this point.

There's a lot of absolute crap on YouTube at this point, but this was vetted by the BBC as legit:

Sorry, no explosion, just burning pipes.

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