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charlie and algernon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-08 09:06 AM
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BREAKING: Water main break traps at least 18 cars in Bethesda, MD
Edited on Tue Dec-23-08 09:12 AM by charlie and algernon
Source: CNN, MSNBC

Breaking on CNN an MSNBC, several cars trapped by fast flowing water on bethesda, MD street.

Read more: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/W/WATER_MAIN_BREAK?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-23-08-58-08
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Jennicut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-08 09:07 AM
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1. Watching it on CNN, it looks very bad and dangerous
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charlie and algernon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-08 09:09 AM
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2. the name of the road, "River Road" is suddenly appropriate
looks like a raging river. MSNBC saying dozens trapped inside the cars.
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inanna Donating Member (672 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-08 09:10 AM
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3. Link here:
Drivers trapped after water main break near DC

BETHESDA, Md. (AP) -- Crews are scrambling to rescue motorists who are stranded in at least four feet of water following a massive water main break just outside Washington, D.C.

Television images showed two people in a minivan climbing into a basket that was lowered from a helicopter flying overhead.

Montgomery County fire department spokesman Pete Piringer says at least a dozen people have been rescued from their vehicles so far. There were no injuries reported so far.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/W/WATER_MAIN_BREAK?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-23-08-58-08
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Clovis Sangrail Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-08 09:12 AM
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4. live link
http://cfc.wjla.com/livestream.cfm?stream=channel5
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tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-08 09:14 AM
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5. I use to work on River Rd.
That is wild.
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charlie and algernon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-08 09:17 AM
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6. wow
is it the main artery to DC that MSNBC has been saying it is?
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tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-08 09:20 AM
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7. Yes. It is a big road.
It's not the only or even the biggest, but it is one of the main roads. I can't tell where on River Rd it is happening, though. It's a long road, too.
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MountainLaurel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-08 10:25 AM
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18. Outside the Beltway
Past the intersection with Seven Locks Road but before Bradley.
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charlie and algernon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-08 09:20 AM
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8. rescuing an elderly person now
plucked him/her out of their car and putting them in a boat
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Xenotime Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-08 09:27 AM
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9. This is just a horrible and terrifying situation.
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elleng Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-08 09:41 AM
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10. Thanks.
Not planning on driving anywhere, but will inform friends etc.
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charlie and algernon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-08 09:54 AM
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12. you're welcome
I'd be suprised if that road was reopened before Christmas, there's going to be some heavy damage from the water.
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elleng Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-08 09:55 AM
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13. Yes.
Trying to figure out exactly where, but difficult from this view.
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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-08 09:41 AM
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11. We've even got that live in the UK
It's on Sky News on TV.

That was a 96 inch main which went !
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bigworld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-08 09:56 AM
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14. Google Earthers, it's at 38°59'53.35"N 77°10'17.59"W
Or thereabouts. Near the Country Club entrance.
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charlie and algernon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-08 10:02 AM
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15. 135 million gallons gushing out a MINUTE!!!!!
at the start, now down to 65 million gallons!! :wow:

As per MSNBC
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katukov Donating Member (48 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-08 10:26 PM
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21. Correction - 150 thousand gallons per minute
MSNBC got it wrong. 150,000 gpm is within the capability of a 66-inch pipe; 135 million per MSNBC, is not.

I bet this will turn out to be prestressed concrete cylinder pipe with the higher wire stress allowance used in the 1960's and 70's, per AWWA C301. Been a lot of failures of this stuff. Whereas a good steel pipe with mortar lining and coating can last 100 years.

Infrastructure projects are needed!

Sorry to quibble, I'm just a water engineer.
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ChairmanAgnostic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-24-08 09:20 AM
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24. cool. you make water?
Can you engineer a vodka flavored one for me, please?

Funny how people underestimate the power of water. hydraulic pressures, turbulence, pressure waves - neat stuff. The video may scare people, but to get really scared, be on a beach that is hit by a solitary wave. THAT is scary.
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Balderdash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-08 10:15 AM
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16. I'm glad that you posted this, my daughter works
in Bethesda. She's ok though, she doesn't take River Road. Wow, it really is a raging river...
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-08 10:18 AM
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17. The water is running brown in Chev Chase and downtown Bethesda Bldgs are without. nt
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bread_and_roses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-08 10:38 AM
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19. Free Marketeer Capitalism at Work Again - Let the Commons Rot
Let the infrastructure crumble so the rich don't have to pay fair taxes, let the commons spend to rescue the unfortunate hoi polloi who get caught in the destruction....

Of course, I'm not watching or listening so for all I know it's a brand-new main (perhaps ill-constructed by private profiteers cutting costs and hiring cheap, unskilled labor) - but the point stands in general, and I'm on a rant today, for whatever reason. I hope everyone is safely rescued, but I also hope that some of those who have to be hauled out are those very over-class over-lords who think they are immune from the tribulations of the commons.
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cap Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-08 10:54 AM
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20. it may well be the uber-class
Bethesda is a well to do area.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-24-08 09:13 AM
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23. Oh for fuck's sake
I'm so tired of seeing this crap here. How do you know rich people weren't caught up in the mess. Do you just assume they helicopter around at all times?

Pull your head out of your ass
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-24-08 08:45 AM
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22. Other third-world countries don't maintain their infrastructure, either. n/t
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