Earthquake destroys Boston.

Or what if aliens blew it up from outer space.


Jeez, people...you want diversified fuel offerings to heat your home, it doesn't come 100.0000000% risk-free. The tank is overbuilt, secured to the hilt, and surrounded by security cams watching everything that moves around it. It's not going to blow by looking at it crosseyed. The odds are infinitessimally small that some disaster could fell it, but not absolute zero. That's what we live with for the sake of progress.
 
Tee hee, the whole point of me listing those scenarios was to put in perspective that I think we'll all be dead long before an earthquake destroys Boston (though I wouldn't put anything past Menino when it comes to diplomacy).

deh74 said:
what if a terrorist launched an rpg at the tanker as it headed through the harbor from rowes wharf?
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Congratulations to deh74 for making the FBI's Terror Watchlist!
 
AmericanFolkLegend said:
Tee hee, the whole point of me listing those scenarios was to put in perspective that I think we'll all be dead long before an earthquake destroys Boston (though I wouldn't put anything past Menino when it comes to diplomacy).



Congratulations to deh74 for making the FBI's Terror Watchlist!
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How about it. The security (visibile and not) is significant for the escorts.
 
AmericanFolkLegend said:
Tee hee, the whole point of me listing those scenarios was to put in perspective that I think we'll all be dead long before an earthquake destroys Boston (though I wouldn't put anything past Menino when it comes to diplomacy).



Congratulations to deh74 for making the FBI's Terror Watchlist!
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well i'm not the only person whos realized this horrible thing that would destroy boston. DEAR FBI, I AM NOT A TERRORIST AND I LKOVE THIS COUNTRY ALMOST AS MUCH AS MY OWN FAMILY PLEASE DO NOT PUT ON YOUR TERROR WATCHLIST OR SEND ASSASSINS TO "TAKE CARE" OF ME.also menino will probably anger the wrong diplomat visiting boston and get us nuked, this sad truth is why i should be elected mayor.
 
F-Line to Dudley said:
Or what if aliens blew it up from outer space.


Jeez, people...you want diversified fuel offerings to heat your home, it doesn't come 100.0000000% risk-free. The tank is overbuilt, secured to the hilt, and surrounded by security cams watching everything that moves around it. It's not going to blow by looking at it crosseyed. The odds are infinitessimally small that some disaster could fell it, but not absolute zero. That's what we live with for the sake of progress.
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Please stop being so rational. You ruin the pleasure of paranoia felt by so many.
 
How about some disaster-preparation work that can realistically be done, for disasters that actually might happen? Like trimming a whole lot of trees way back, eliminating a whole lot more entirely, and banning sidewalk trees in areas without buried utilities? I know people like trees, but your right to trees ends where my right to electricity begins.

(In case you can't tell, I'm a bit frustrated since my power just came back on after 50 hours of darkness)
 
Trees. What have they ever done for us?

Why don't they just back to the woods where they belong!
 
"Right to electricity." I like it as much as the next guy, but right?
 
bbfen said:
"Right to electricity." I like it as much as the next guy, but right?
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Haha, you can chalk that up to rhetorical excess I suppose.

The serious point is, if for aesthetic reasons a neighborhood wants to have trees tall enough to take out power lines in close proximity to them, they should have to internalize the costs by burying the power lines. There's lots of evidence that it ultimately might not cost all that much more. But they shouldn't be able to impose the costs of loss of electricity on others based on their aesthetic preferences.

In my area people loudly objected when utilities started just trimming branches that were too close to the wires. Hopefully those people were in areas whose power is still out so they understand the consequences of their "activism".
 
Burying power lines is much more cost-effective in densely populated neighborhoods ;)

But it's not so simple as buried vs above-grade. There's varying quality of buried cables, and the cheaper sort can degrade quickly and be more difficult to fix than above-ground. This is what, I suspect, has happened to Allston -- which is why NSTAR has been digging the streets up all summer.
 
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