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librechik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 05:16 PM Original message |
AP bulletin reports explosion in midtown Manhattan |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 05:16 PM Response to Original message |
1. Transformer explosion. |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 05:17 PM Response to Original message |
2. Just read out on BBC news too |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 05:18 PM Response to Original message |
3. Dry cleaning bags filled with marsh gas |
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Snazzy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 05:22 PM Response to Original message |
4. radio says underground |
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Snazzy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 05:25 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. 4 alarm "manhole explosion" per (ugh) fox local |
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Lost-in-FL (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 05:22 PM Response to Original message |
5. Chertoff's "gut sense" is good!!! |
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DBoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 05:32 PM Response to Reply #5 |
12. How? Did he just pass gas? |
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librechik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 05:22 PM Response to Original message |
6. More from Reuters |
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Renew Deal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 05:24 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. I work in midtown near Times Square |
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maddezmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 05:24 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. MSNBC said there now is a 4 alarm fire due to the explosion |
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C_U_L8R (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 05:39 PM Response to Reply #8 |
14. Transformer explosions can be pretty nasty |
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RevolutionStartsNow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 05:26 PM Response to Original message |
10. My brother just emailed me, he was there, getting on a train |
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lurky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 05:31 PM Response to Original message |
11. Link to nytimes: |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 05:38 PM Response to Original message |
13. I KNEW it... |
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ChazII (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 07:05 PM Response to Reply #13 |
34. At least someone |
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librechik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 05:46 PM Response to Original message |
15. "Police say no building collapse, but one building is SHAKY" |
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althecat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 05:46 PM Response to Original message |
16. NEWSFLASH: Transformer Explosion In Manhattan |
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Renew Deal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 05:46 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. More video |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 05:46 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. When those things blow they sound like a gun going off. Very scary. |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 05:54 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Have to watch those things |
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Viva_La_Revolution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 06:58 PM Response to Reply #16 |
33. you rock. |
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ronnykmarshall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 05:55 PM Response to Original message |
20. Traffic has got to be a mess |
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Renew Deal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 05:55 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. 3rd ave. is a very direct way to get to the 59th St. Bridge. |
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Penance (149 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 06:45 PM Response to Reply #20 |
32. Mess is an understatement |
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Renew Deal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 05:55 PM Response to Original message |
21. Guy from ABC says: "The steam might be toxic" and then he says |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 05:58 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. One reporter says it smells like sulfur. |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 06:01 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. The devil came here |
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conspirator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 07:11 PM Response to Reply #25 |
35. aliens also smell like sulfur. Maybe bush is a reptilian alien devil n/t |
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otherlander (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 11:10 PM Response to Reply #35 |
41. We do not smell like sulfur at all! |
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Renew Deal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 06:10 PM Response to Reply #23 |
28. I heard that. |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 08:57 PM Response to Reply #28 |
37. Grow up. We had a violent rainstorm. |
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Renew Deal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-20-07 10:34 AM Response to Reply #37 |
44. Get a clue |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 06:00 PM Response to Original message |
24. As usual, some media are getting a lot of stuff wrong (Thanks, Australian media. Geesh!) |
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Up2Late (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 09:45 PM Response to Reply #24 |
39. Blast destroys NY building??? Nice, NO Rupert, it did not. Reuters has video at this link... |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 06:04 PM Response to Original message |
26. More photos |
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Davis_X_Machina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 06:09 PM Response to Original message |
27. Infrastructure aging... |
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Cassandra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 11:30 PM Response to Reply #27 |
42. Not aging but physics. |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 06:14 PM Response to Original message |
29. Just got word of 7 injuries and 1 death. Trying to confirm now. n/t |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 06:27 PM Response to Original message |
30. No, a crowd collapsed near an evacuating steam pipe in a building |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 06:40 PM Response to Original message |
31. Live stream from 1010WINS News Radio, New York |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 07:29 PM Response to Original message |
36. 1 reported fatality due 2cardiac arrest. 3-4 firefighters treated at scene. 20-odd civilians injured |
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Up2Late (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 09:34 PM Response to Original message |
38. NO! It's a 24 inch Steam Pipe under Lexington Ave & 41st Street... |
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regnaD kciN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 10:21 PM Response to Original message |
40. Oh my God, it's terra. It has to be terra... |
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mogster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-19-07 03:50 AM Response to Original message |
43. Norw. media are in Sept. 11 mode |
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