Once Again, in the Headlines for the Wrong Reasons

"user314" (user314) 10/03/2018 at 09:50 • Filed to: yinzer, Pittsburgh, fire, gas, in the news, trolley, traffic

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A contractor working on a waterline hit a gas main literally a three minute walk from my front door. Last night around 2am a worker hit the line, rupturing the main and sending a fireball into the sky. One injured worker was taken to the hospital, though no one else was hurt. One family was ordered to evacuate, though they were allowed to return home after the gas main was shut down and the fire extinguished. Clifton from Route 88 to Aire dale is still closed, and will be for some time.

If the area looks familiar, that because the creek that cuts across 88/Library Road !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! in June this year, damaging the Trolley Stop Inn and closing the Port Authority’s LRT line until the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .

ttyymmnn > user314 10/03/2018 at 10:11

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Somebody forget to call 811?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > user314 10/03/2018 at 10:15

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A gas explosion, you say?

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Assuming Mr. Skinner wasn’t seen anywhere nearby.

user314 > ttyymmnn 10/03/2018 at 10:16

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Nope, the line was marked. It’s still very early obviously, but it s ounds like someone simply screwed up.

Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > user314 10/03/2018 at 11:26

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True story:

They were resurfacing a road a bout a hundred yards from my house, as in on the same block I live on. The road crews hit a gas line.

They call the gas company, the gas company comes to fix it. They hit the water line.

I come home, no gas, no water, find out what happened, I’m not even upset because that is just funny.

Nom De Plume > user314 10/03/2018 at 11:31

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Is you screen name just redundant to newsworthy articles like this anymore?