NY stream pipe bursting ?

[blues90]

I am not a tin foil hat nut however I do have to ask myself why that pipe burst where it did . I imagine it was either buried under the street and not easily accessable . It could have bust anywhere , was it cold water , they don't knwo yet , was it just old and ignored , was it becaue of vibrations from the trains .

Who knows , it just seems odd to me .

[aikoaiko]

1. que?

[blues90]

7. Well I heard on one news story

That it may have been a cold water pipe near the steam pipe that caused this burst but they had no actual info on this yet . I know the stream pipe was old and may very well be just that . and I wnet on thinking about this however I don't know if the trains run near this steam pipe or the actual path of this pipe or where it begins and ends or even what it's function is or if it is even used anymore .

I question everything , just my nature . This pipe burst during a busy time of the day and near the station so I wonder what a coincidence , that's all .

I do understand how many things work and thing do just suddenly break down , it just seems a bit odd to me until we get all the facts in .

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

2. Ummmm, What Now?

:crazy:

[aquart]

3. It's pretty damn normal for New York.

Now climb back into that tin-foil cave and stay safe.

[Captain Hilts]

4. Old and ignored. nt

[qanda]

5. LIBOP?

Let it burst on purpose:shrug: I guess we're going to need a new forum.

[Posteritatis]

6. The pipe was 80-90 years old from the news I saw of it

So it doesn't really surprise me.

Sometimes, bad things Just Happen. Seriously.

[americanstranger]

8. Ever been to NYC?

Things break, explode, fall over, and burst into flames on a regular basis here.

The infrastructure is so huge that not everything can be maintained at all times.

Did you know that a Con Ed transformer blew up in NYC at the end of June, plunging parts of the Upper East Side and The Bronx into darkness?

http://www.newyorkbusiness.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070627/FREE/70627013/1047

Happens all the time here. The only reason this one got big coverage was because it disrupted Midtown traffic.

- as

[Warpy]

9. It was laid in 1923-1924. It was OLD

and had been carrying pressurized steam for 83 years. A look at the size of the explosion and hole will tell you just how much pressure is generated by steam superheated to 350 degrees.

It could have failed anyplace in the city. It's a tribute to those long dead engineers that it lasted as long as it did.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. It was a conspiracy to commit failing infrastructure.

God damn Woodrow Wilson and his cronies!