ORH_wxman Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 What a crazy situation. You hope it was nothing intentional like someone hacking into the pressure regulator controls. It prob wasn't...more likely some safety mechanism failed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJonesWX Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 I believe Scooter works in the affected area. Hope all is well there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modfan Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 Not sure how far away they start Strike Teams, but I believe I heard Leominster responding which would be Dist 8 (Northern Org County) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 Terrorists. No doubt about it. They’ve found another weakness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KoalaBeer Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 52 minutes ago, NorEastermass128 said: Little brother goes to Merrimack. Can’t get ahold of him. If it makes ya feel better I didn’t see anything in the immediate vicinity of Merrimack. I drove right by most of what I saw was closer to Mass ave heading towards Lawrence. It was really bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorEastermass128 Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 1 minute ago, KoalaBeer said: If it makes ya feel better I didn’t see anything in the immediate vicinity of Merrimack. I drove right by most of what I saw was closer to Mass ave heading towards Lawrence. It was really bad. He made it out of there. He said it went down while he was at practice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorEastermass128 Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 20 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said: Terrorists. No doubt about it. They’ve found another weakness FBI involved. I guess it’s protocol? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
512high Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 3 minutes ago, NorEastermass128 said: FBI involved. I guess it’s protocol? yes, an automatic response because of the "times"........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 25 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said: Terrorists. No doubt about it. They’ve found another weakness One of your more solid calls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 Was home today. Sounds like a failure in the gas lines that is supposed to regulate pressure from transmission lines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 3 minutes ago, Baroclinic Zone said: One of your more solid calls. We’ve had a lot . Hopefully this one is completely wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 It is weird though. How does that happen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 47 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said: Terrorists. No doubt about it. They’ve found another weakness Probably domestic terrorism to boot. In all likelihood, it's a failed safety mechanism or a spark from some malfunction somewhere in the feed system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 44 minutes ago, CoastalWx said: It is weird though. How does that happen? Everything is computerized. When I worked at Pfizer computer error led to overpressurization of 12 Hydrogen tanks, when the relief valves let go in to the dry air there was 12 huge explosions. You would think their would be alarms though. I highly doubt terrorists Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorEastermass128 Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 My money is on gross incompetence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 Jeezuz, just tuning in to actual news so this is the first I've heard of it. WTF is going on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 1 hour ago, Damage In Tolland said: Terrorists. No doubt about it. They’ve found another weakness No. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 10 minutes ago, NorEastermass128 said: My money is on gross incompetence. Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KoalaBeer Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 Unfortunately I'm hearing reports of 3 fatalities in Lawrence through a second hand source. I'm always skeptical of second hand sources but they were spot on with the fatality just reported from the chimney on the car and the girl getting pulled out of the house with severe leg injuries before it was reported. Here's a screen grab from a video I took off mass ave but then I had to put the phone away. Way to hectic with first res-ponders flying by me to not be concentrating on the situation at hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great Snow 1717 Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 I'm not sure if there is any connection or not, but in Lawrence on RTE 114 there is a major construction project that has been ongoing for several months at the site of the former Showcase Cinema. The site is right in the area. I live in Methuen and at this time(1:20 AM) it is the 1st time in several hours that I cannot hear siren noise coming from Lawrence, North Andover and Andover. Several friends of mine who live in Lawrence had a difficult time evacuating the city last evening due to all the road closures in Lawrence. Also the Mthuen olice Dept made a reverse 911 call to inform the residents of Methuen that their wasn't any risk in Methuen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 60.5° ++++++FG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TauntonBlizzard2013 Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 19 hours ago, Damage In Tolland said: Terrorists. No doubt about it. They’ve found another weakness Doubt it. My guess is on failed equipment and stop measures. The greater Boston area has some of the oldest, if not the oldest gas infastructure in the country. Total crap show though. We should be able to prevent this stuff from happening Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava Rock Posted September 15, 2018 Share Posted September 15, 2018 Hiking around Devil's Hole, Jersey. This place is awesome. San Diego like weather, ocean temp 70f. Sent from my Pixel 2 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted September 15, 2018 Share Posted September 15, 2018 DIT? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanStWx Posted September 15, 2018 Share Posted September 15, 2018 1 hour ago, Lava Rock said: Hiking around Devil's Hole, Jersey. This place is awesome. San Diego like weather, ocean temp 70f. If you run into a Legro (more likely Le Gros) around St. Lawrence, we're probably distant cousins. I lose the thread a little in Reading, Mass in 1700, but it would appear my family migrated from Jersey long ago, settled in Newfoundland, then moved through Maine into Mass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoob40 Posted September 15, 2018 Share Posted September 15, 2018 20 minutes ago, OceanStWx said: If you run into a Legro (more likely Le Gros) around St. Lawrence, we're probably distant cousins. I lose the thread a little in Reading, Mass in 1700, but it would appear my family migrated from Jersey long ago, settled in Newfoundland, then moved through Maine into Mass. Glad they lived here ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanStWx Posted September 15, 2018 Share Posted September 15, 2018 3 minutes ago, scoob40 said: Glad they lived here ? We've been nor'easter weenies for a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava Rock Posted September 15, 2018 Share Posted September 15, 2018 Cool. Lots of history here. Here's an old Castle in Gorey and a lighthouse on other side of island. That's someone's private home in foreground of lighthouse. Old German WWII bunkers around too. If you run into a Legro (more likely Le Gros) around St. Lawrence, we're probably distant cousins. I lose the thread a little in Reading, Mass in 1700, but it would appear my family migrated from Jersey long ago, settled in Newfoundland, then moved through Maine into Mass. Sent from my Pixel 2 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted September 15, 2018 Share Posted September 15, 2018 Is there any word on the causal spectrum of that ? I figure it to be like plain crash phenomenon: there is rarely one singular event that brought the air bus to the earth at 9.8 m/s squared, but is usually a string of seemingly unrelated events that culminated in destiny repurposing 100 people's life energy ... despite all attempts to fight gravity while it is happening. In this case, I wonder if the home-fuel aspect of infrastructure might have succumb to the same sort of series of events leading inexorably to that fateful afternoon. Firstly, there is a 'what' happened. I/we get it... gas + heat ... most importantly, unintended too much gas + heat = boom. But, I wonder 'how'? Gas igniting is a black box. I'm interested in why these houses blew up more specifically, after we figure out the gas delivery culpability. Like, I imagine (with no facts upon which to formulate that imagination ) that somehow the pressure in the line got too great and ultimately exceeded the end point's ability to hold it back. It then flooded homes that probably had ongoing electrical componentry and or you name it, and then detonated was inevitable. Last words, "Honey - 'you smell that?" But who knows... About that delivery culpability thing. I live in Ayer Mass, which as the crow flies is just a couple town away from that area of Massachusetts. Word travels fast... My neighbors have relatives and friend-spheres that rise and set over that region of the state, and they were telling me yesterday to expect an tort tsunamis out of all this. Why? Because apparently residence had been complaining and posting signs even, to try and raise attention to the fact that at times ...the stench of gas permeating back yards and thoroughfares was alarming - nothing was ever being done about it. Hm... interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted September 15, 2018 Share Posted September 15, 2018 On 9/13/2018 at 7:41 PM, SJonesWX said: I believe Scooter works in the affected area. Hope all is well there I heard a rumor the FBI was actually questioning him about the double bean burrito he ate for lunch ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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