From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Nobody  wrote:   
   >"Adam H. Kerman"  wrote:   
      
   >>For those of you on Usenet so enamored of the safety record of pipelines   
   >>for transportation of oil, you may not want to read about last night's   
   >>disaster:   
      
   >>A ruptured oil pipe near the suburb of Glendale has spilled about   
   >>10,000 gallons of crude oil onto streets; initial reports had the spill   
   >>at 50,000 gallons. The leak from a 20 inch pipe was reported as 12:15   
   >>am. Thursay, May 15, 2014. It was shut off remotely within 10 minutes of   
   >>firemen arriving. Despite the shut off, the spill continued for at least   
   >>45 minutes.   
      
   >>A strip club had to be evacuated.   
      
   >>The pipe was under pressure; oil was seen shooting 20 feet into the sky.   
      
   >>The oil came from Bakersfield. It's a pumping transfer station sending   
   >>oil to a storage facility near Bakersfield.   
      
   >And don't forget, at some stage, to relate that this was an   
   >above-ground structure, not an underground, buried feeder.   
      
   If it was above ground (which I didn't read in newspaper reports), that   
   would make it less likely to get damaged by a backhoe.   
      
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