Steam Explosion - Grand Central - NYC - 7/18/07

"8:21PM: Mayor Bloomberg is speaking. A 24" steam pipe broke; the pipe was installed 1924. Cause seems to be cold water getting into the pipe. There are so many alarms and sirens going off, the press conference has temporarily halted. It's unclear where the cold water is from - this morning's rain or a water main break. No power outages (thanks to redundancies that cover the area), some Verizon outages. Too early to tell how long it'll take it fix, but the Mayor hopes it'll be relatively back to normal tomorrow. The big concern is that there may have been asbestos released in the air; they'll know in an hour, but one somewhat positive thing is that there was so much water, hopefully the water the trapped it."

from gothamist: http://gothamist.com/2007/07/18/explosion_in_vi.php
legacy0100says...

Haha, I remember seeing this after work walking toward the station.

Everyone was in a state of alert. Some of them had their mobile phone out to take pictures, and I could overhear others quietly murmuring 'it's 9/11 again!'

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