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Manhattan Ave EXPLOSION!

pickles
pickles
edited November -1 in Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Bushwick
as i was walking from Natural Garden (Kent St) to Greenpoint Ave, a manhole cover EXPLODED, loud boom, blew the license plate off the van parked near it..

FIRE coming out of the hole..

WTF?

it happened at about 5:35pm.

ummm, DIRECTLY across from Starbucks..


hmmm..related to the other one this weekend i wonder??

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  • superclam
    superclam
    Holy sh*t, that was scary!! I was coming out of the cleaners two stores away. It was really, really loud, I jumped about 50 feet. My heart was beating hard for 15 minutes.
    NYFD has the area closed at the moment, and all the cars are gone.
    That being said, I don't think it was related, because it was on the other side of Manhattan Ave. from Starbucks. I guess we'll find out later if I'm wrong.
  • pickles
    pickles
    on Sat May 16, 09 7:16 pm
    rtraindweller wrote: damn Greenpoint's lightin' up the map lately

    you can say that again..
  • superclam
    superclam
    Although, now that I'm thinking of it, it IS kind of coincidental that it happened across from a Starbucks.
    I just can't believe they'd target this particular branch.
    We shall see.
  • tybur6
    tybur6
    In the spirit of how other folks have responded to some of my posts...

    Hey, What do you expect? It's New York! If you want sewers that don't explode, go back to Iowa.


    (I think that's how it goes...)
  • superclam
    superclam
    Freakin' yuppie, hippie, gentrifier!

    What people don't realize is that Iowa leads the nation in sewer explosions. They laugh at us here in Brooklyn with our only occasionally exploding manholes.
  • superclam
    superclam
    Whoops, meant to write "hipster". I guess I'm REALLY uncool.
  • bluemagoo
    bluemagoo
    Most likely a Con Ed burnout. It usually happens more frequently during a thaw in the winter time when the salt they spread on the street mixes with the snow/ice melt & drains into an underground electric manhole or vault. We used to have to respond to these calls all the time when I worked for the gas company to check & see if natural gas was involved.
  • rtraindweller
    rtraindweller
    pickles wrote: on Sat May 16, 09 7:16 pm
    [quote=rtraindweller]damn Greenpoint's lightin' up the map lately
    you can say that again..

    wocka wocka
  • yuppiekiller
    yuppiekiller
    and whats the big deal ??? this is NY get used to it.

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