Don't know whose line it is, but about 15 years ago a 36" gas main blew out about three miles from my house. Luckily, (and incredibly) there was no fiery explosion, just the force of the psi blowing out of the pipe. Even so, we could hear the roar easily inside our house 3 mi. away. We had to shout to hear each other outside. It left a hole with a surface area of about a half acre.:speechls:

(P.S. Can a hole have "surface" area?)

Sorry, thought this was the orgy thread. Excuse me.

When you're around, every thread is the orgy thread.

Ha! HLJ's saying yes? ;) He's not like that.......Fie! fie!!!

I wonder if they damaged the line inspecting it?

Nothing? They did a better job than the Russians a few years ago. They saw the pressure drop and dialed it back up to normal!! It was out in a remote valley. It filled the valley with a nice fuel air ratio. A big passenger train went into the valley. It never came out again. The train people wondered why the train never showed up. Someone went to investigate. OHMYGAWD!!!

That's not far off the incompetence at the Piper Alpha oil rig fire of Britain.
IIRC, there were two rigs feeding into the same pipe. P.A. blew and the other rig should have been shut down immediately, but managers were under pressure to keep production up, so they kept it pumping ... with the flow going the wrong way up the pipe to Piper Alpha and force feeding fuel onto the already huge fire for hours.

oh, now that's in-fucking-telligent

I seem to remember a joke about Piper Alpha, Kings Cross and Bradford City FC... (all huge fires in the UK within a couple of years of eachother).

The only positive is they were all used as the basis for new regulations to ensure it didn't happen again.

Did I mention that we have a buried pipeline in the hill behind my house, about 50 feet from the back?

Be careful if you're out shooting for some food.

Well I would end up in Beverly Hills....in tiny pieces.

"and up comes the bubbling goo" tra la