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Yesterday, three manholes exploded on Houston St between MacDougal and Thompson.
A Con Edison spokesman said gases from burning insulation on underground wires ignited and sent the covers 30 feet in the air. Witnesses described it as sounding like a sonic boom.
For some reason, the only injury was a cut hand. The victim was a schoolteacher from Connecticut.
This sounds scarier than falling into one of those open grates in the sidewalk. Way scarier.
Manhole blasts in Village hurt [New York Post]
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1. Anonymous
Want a neat little picture by your comments? Get one here.Con Edison’s electric distribution system is one of the oldest in the world. Decades of regulated returns and a sub-optimal deregulation process have left this amazingly complex system in a state of tragic disrepair. Be careful if there is a heat wave in Summer ‘07; we could see considerably worse things happening than a few blown manhole covers. Oh, and, by the way, we’re all going to have a pay a lot more for electricity to pay for Con Ed (or their successor) to fix this grid.
Posted Saturday, December 30, 2006 at 2:18 am | Permalink
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