Bad weld caused San Bruno pipeline explosion?

Ignoramus1469 · 2010-09-11T19:08:39+00:00

I am looking at this piece of pipe: the clean end suggests to me that the entire weld failed. What doour resident pipe weldors say? Steve? Private?

Sep 11, 2010 62 Replies

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James Waldby 15 years ago

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mentions some addresses. For example, if you search on 1701 Earl Avenue, San Bruno, CA at the burned area shows up clearly. (However, if you zoom in tighter than the 200-ft-scale level, older (pre-explosion) photos show up.)

It appears that a 5-mile circle extends about a mile into the Pacific on the west side, and a mile or so into SF Bay on the east. Scott appears to be correct that that area is among the most-lightly-populated places on the SF peninsula; it might well be that the population within 5 miles is less than 100000 people.

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Steve B 15 years ago

I go back to my point. I have owned a metal detector since 1980. I guarantee if there are pieces of a jet or some exploded ordinance casing, I could find it. And if there are theorists out there, they must be too lazy to look for any evidence past the "I feel" and "I think" or "I heard" mentality. Looking at that address on Google Earth, there are plenty of homes around that would have some fragments of shrapnel embedded in soft building materials. Next thing someone is going to come up with is that it was another Bush conspiracy. Plane attack? I think not.

Steve

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