Lilah ,'Not Fade Away'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Reporter Matthew Haag spoke to Dallas Fire-Rescue Lt. Joel Lavender, who said the fire started on an 18-wheeler on a loading dock on the back side of Southwest. The fire then spread into the building, where tanks of oxygen tanks, helium and acetylene began blowing up.
Yeah, those Muggles will believe anything...
The fire then spread into the building, where tanks of oxygen tanks, helium and acetylene began blowing up.
Firefighters hate it when helium tanks blow up - it leads to them talking in high-pitched voices.
There actually was some worry about that because it's not far from the federal building where the Holy Land Foundation trial is.
Yeah, the explosion at Grand Central was similar for the first half hour or so. Even after we got some information there was a lot of "They ALWAYS say its a transformer..."
(and it turns out it wasn't a transformer, so they probably WERE just saying it...)
Yeah, those Muggles will believe anything...
Oh. Oh, man.
My bad. I was trying to incinerate the Dalai Lama, but I sneezed.
Firefighters hate it when helium tanks blow up - it leads to them talking in high-pitched voices.
I'd imagine they also hate the inert gas pushing out and replacing breathable oxygen. Though at least it doesn't contribute to the burning!
I remember the time Mom and I were driving on the bypass road around Philadelphia, and there was a fuel-tank fire happening right next to the highway and they didn't shut down the road at all! We drove past the billowing plume of flame and could feel the heat of the fire as we went past.
This fire was pretty close to downtown and right close to some highway exchanges. I'm hearing about people abandoning their cars, trying to back up off the highways, flying cannisters. Scary stuff.
On DMN's editorial blog:
It's never good when the newspaper's former jack-of-all-war-trades foreign correspondent (now editorial board member) says during the morning staff meeting: "That sure feels like explosions."
The World Without Us. Sounds like a fascinating read.
ita, I heard a great interview on NPR with that author. I'll go fetch the link...
It's never good when the newspaper's former jack-of-all-war-trades foreign correspondent (now editorial board member) says during the morning staff meeting: "That sure feels like explosions."
Urk.
acetylene
Double urk. They let you store large quantities of that stuff right near actual city parts where stuff happens? (I mean, I don't know shit about petroleum products, and I know that stuff is what they make torches out of.)