Steam Line Blows
What did I tell ya about aging pipes in this country? My Blue Planet Run blog contained info about the New Jersey water main break last year when a wave of water ran through a neighborhood and deluged people while they were asleep in their beds. Now we have a steam line break in the middle of New York that injured several people. The woman that died did so from a heart attack not from the actual line blowing sky high.
Good luck getting funds from the federal government to update lines that are close to 80 years old in some areas. There is a program on TV that investigates some of the dirtiest jobs in America. One of the segments was about water and sewer lines in San Francisco. Now that’s a disaster waiting to happen. Numerous leaks are fixed daily. The lines are a maze of crumbling antiquity twisting through the underground of the city. I don’t think breaches in water lines are healthy. They certainly shouldn’t be happening in America. But rest assured nothing will be done about it anytime soon. Funding has been cut all over. As I reported in another blog, the federal funds that filter down to help communities update and correct aging pipes throughout America has been hacked as have many other important programs; the war you know.