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More than 300 Evacuated After Natural Gas Leak Darien, WI, United States 1/19/2000 CSBInformation Added: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 - 5:17 PM ----- Evacuated were more than 300 students and teachers from Darien Elementary, who were bussed to a school in nearby Delavan. More than 20 residents were put up in a nearby fire station.
The evacuation orders were called off after two hours when crews successfully shut off the gas supply to the area.
A gas main and water main were both reported to have broken.
Police chief Michael Michalek said, "The risk was whether or not the gas main was a large main and whether there were a lot of gas fumes. We were worried that with wind the fumes would go into people's basements."
Link:
http://chemsafety.gov/circ/post.cfm?incident_id=4609
-- Carl Jenkins (Somewherepress@aol.com), January 19, 2000
Could it have been due to severe artic weather conditions?
-- (jack@frost.freezingpipes), January 19, 2000.
It's in Wisconsin, for God's sake....They have arctic conditions all the time.This is getting to the point of rediculousness. Mains breaking left and right. There is definitely a pattern here. Who else sees it?
Now is it because of faulty embeddeds misregulating pressure?
Or is it because safety systems have been shut down? Or maybe a combination of the two.
And how 'bout those electric bills coming covering a 6-7 week period because the systems are still being tested. That's not Y2K related. Of course not.
"we're just upgrading systems."
I started breking into my supplies, maybe I shouldn't have. Will trucks be running to the grocery store in a month? Will the shelves be restocked? Or will gasoline only be available for official use only???
-- Duke1983 (Duke1983@aol.com), January 20, 2000.
It's in Wisconsin, for God's sake....They have arctic conditions all the time.This is getting to the point of rediculousness. Mains breaking left and right. There is definitely a pattern here. Who else sees it?
Now is it because of faulty embeddeds misregulating pressure?
Or is it because safety systems have been shut down? Or maybe a combination of the two.
And how 'bout those electric bills coming covering a 6-7 week period because the systems are still being tested. That's not Y2K related. Of course not.
"we're just upgrading systems."
I started breaking into my supplies, maybe I shouldn't have. Will trucks be running to the grocery store in a month? Will the shelves be restocked? Or will gasoline only be available for official use only???
-- Duke1983 (Duke1983@aol.com), January 20, 2000.