Right On Top Of It
When I checked the weather this morning [it was cold here] I noticed a story about an oil pipeline rupture in Los Angeles. It was a local news video from an LA station. Given the fire weather in California I checked the US media sites for more information, but nothing. OTOH the BBC had the story.
The US media wants to fixate on foreign disasters, but you have to go to other countries to find out what’s going on here. This was an above ground crude oil pipeline, which makes inspection rather easy, and it blew out in a metropolitan area. The Keystone XL is going to be buried, but we should just trust them that there will be no problems and it won’t pollute the ground and the aquifer.
The firefighters in Southern California are hoping to keep things under control until the weather conditions moderate over the weekend. Thousands of people have had to evacuate, and some homes and other structures have been lost, but it could get worse, a lot worse.
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One of our friends down San Diego way said that there were fires on three sides of his neighborhood… the fourth side was the ocean. Nice to have an escape route…
It’s only an escape route if there isn’t an oil spill on top of it. 😉
My relatives were all out of it as far as their homes are considered, but two of them had their jobs affected. It’s May, we should be talking about fog in San Diego, not fires and Santa Anas.