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Skreid

Jul 19 2007, 02:15 AM

http://www.1010wins.com/?transformerexplosion

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An underground steam pipe explosion tore through a Manhattan street near Grand Central Terminal on Wednesday, swallowing a tow truck and killing one person as hundreds of others ran for cover amid a towering geyser of steam and flying rubble.The OEM is telling people to avoid the East Side near Grand Central because of possible hazardous material and asbestos concerns.

That is a massive hole

Jaime

Jul 19 2007, 02:59 AM

Huge! It's like the road collapsed.

idav

Jul 19 2007, 03:07 AM

Yeah, thats amazing. It looks as big as a sinkhole or something?

♠ Charles

Jul 19 2007, 04:58 AM

I would probably faint..

Watty

Jul 19 2007, 11:48 AM

No doubt there would have been some brown racing streaks in my underwear had I been in the area. :'(

Anybody here live in/around that area?

RobertMidd

Jul 19 2007, 11:56 AM

Holy camole !!!

Could this be the start of the War of the Worlds.

Brandon C

Jul 19 2007, 03:31 PM

I don't have any friends that live in Midtown, but I do have some that live in Greenwich Village and the surrounding neighborhoods, and I'll ask them about it. Anyway, I first saw this on the evening news yesterday, and thought that it must have been horrifying for people in the immediate area to witness that, and I would have been very scared as well myself if I would have been there! However, I watched the news about 15 minutes ago and they said that the steam "shot up as high as 80 stories," and it showed the tow truck it swallowed, as well as two city buses and a taxi that were lucky enough to stop just short of the explosion. They reported this morning that the area had been evacuated by last night, and that this morning they did air quality tests and showed no dangers in the air, so that's good. But I'm sure the area's still evacuated as of now.

error102

Jul 19 2007, 05:32 PM

OMG !!!!!!!

kampkrusty

Jul 19 2007, 06:30 PM

My father is staying in a hotel one block away from the scene

idav

Jul 20 2007, 01:37 PM

I feel really bad for the poor driver of that tow truck. He's in a lot of pain right now :-(

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