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To: finnman69

Major electrical substations and transformers are underground in vented enclosures in urban areas of that density. When they totally blow, they make a lot of smoke and a corresponding big boom. Hopefully, that is the extent of it.


68 posted on 07/18/2007 3:14:24 PM PDT by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free...their passions forge their fetters.)
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To: KC Burke
MANHOLE EXPLOSION on LEXINGTON @ 41st. Street.

One injury. Likely a transformer.

72 posted on 07/18/2007 3:15:42 PM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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