Seems to a lot of gas lines explodingthis is the latest:

Forty-foot Fireball in Residential Street After Natural Gas Explosion, York, United Kingdom

Information Added: Friday, January 14, 2000 - 6:33 PM ----- The gas leak exploded into a 40-foot (12-meter) fireball in a residential street, forcing emergency workers to evacuate about 150 people.

There were no reports of any injuries or major property damage.

Eighty firefighters worked to tackle the blaze, which gas officials attributed to a rupture in a gas pipeline.

Link to story:

http://www.humanitarian.net/challenges.html

here a link to a house explosion in Dallas that killed three people earlier today reported earlier today:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000114/ts/explosion_house_1.html

-- Carl Jenkins (Somewherepress@aol.com), January 14, 2000

Answers

Thank you, Carl. I guess most folks read a post like this and just sit there with their mouths open. Keep 'em coming.

-- james hyde (hydesci@gte.net), January 15, 2000.

There is SO MUCH stuff going on that doesn't get reported and I'll use one shining example. A friend works at the Aspen airport, said the lights went out and they had to close it to traffic for the evening. I contacted our worthless media at two newspapers, NOTHING, and I called the management at the airport, they were in meetings and didn't return my call. Aspen is a major airport during the winter. Not a peep to the general public, nothing, nada. I couldn't squeeze it out of them with a vice grips therefore IT NEVER HAPPENED. Unless you know someone on the inside, you don't hear about it unless injury or loss of life occurs.

-- Guy Daley (guydaley@bwn.net), January 15, 2000.

Guy, it's a shame that is the rule rather than the exception. I'd rather not trust the health and welfare of my family to corporations whose self-admitted goal is getting a buck outta me at all costs. It's unfortunate that the media does not carry the unbiased reports we used to depend upon to make personal informed decisions.

PS--Case in point: When's Exxon gonna finish paying Alaska for that oil spill--Valdeez, was it?

-- Hokie (Hokie_@hotmail.com), January 15, 2000.

Hi Hokie, I couldn't agree with you more. As a journalist, I am disgusted with the mass media. It's nothing but a propaganda mill. It is possible to get a glimpse of what's going on by traversing the world via the internet. But the major media outlets intentionally fail to put together the big picture. PS..always look for, enjoy and find your posts insightful and informative and often funny...T

-- Carl Jenkins (Somewherepress@aol.com), January 15, 2000.