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explosion of gas main near my town tonight

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midmoe

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at about midnite tonght, I was listening to the stereo pretty loud and couldn't hear the explosion about 3-4 miles away, but my friends living about 15 miles away heard it and it shook their house....I was lost in a lucinda williams live recording with all kinds of subsonic bass in it and thought it was part of the live concert...anyway they rang me up and and informed me of an explosion that I didn't know about it....well I turned down the stereo and heard a continuous roaring and then went outside and saw a fireball with streamers going up hundreds of feet in the air and a noise that shook me....the noise continued for about 1 1/2 hours, sticking my head out the back door every 10 mins or so and looking in a general northerly direction.....thank god its quiet and dark out there now....still no news on the radio or tv or even googling on the internet....the city manager was in his office and couldn't get through to any emergency personell, so gave up and went home, presuming, as I, that the gas company would eventually shut off the line. I took a movie of it but it overwhelmed my camera and you only can see the bottom of the fireball....looks like a rising sun in the video.....will be on the news tommorow.....I guess I have something extra to be thankful for this thanksgiving, in that the explosion occurred away from town, as our little town of 180 people has a similar gas line supply to it.....edd
 
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pic of fireball base 4-5 miles (est.) away
 

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thanks guys, now it is on the internet, but not so far on local tv or radio to my knowledge.....I have an am radio on in the background..1050KHZ...local station....nothing yet, but I am sure there has been some radio coverage somewhere...well the excitement is over and I will see if I can drive out tomorrow and get a look and a pic of the aftermath.....sirens have abated and traffic is gone....a close one...too close.....as the internet says it was only a little over a mile away....I will post later on the subject tommorow....edd
 
Cripes. I hope they don't blow up someone one of these days. This is not the first failure. They need to replace this thing.

I figure that line goes E-W and feeds St. Louis. At Columbia (E of the fire along I-70) there's an odorant station just north of town, I think this is the feed for Columbia. I have property a few miles north, with a 4" 150 psi Panhandle gas line going N-S through it. I reckon this connects to the big line near that odorant station and feeds Moberly to our north. I don't know how old the line is, but the easement on my place goes back to 1932. :scratch2:
 
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