So, if you live in CA and PG&E is your gas company...

[Duer 157099]

are you worried?

I am.

I think I'd like to know where the gas lines are in my neighborhood.

[wryter2000]

1. I'm also worried that they're giving me a "smart meter."

They've been the subject of TV consumer reports. I'm not sure they're so "smart."

[Duer 157099]

3. They already gave me one

It caused problems the first day it was there. I couldn't open the gate to my yard because this thing was blocking it.

Other than that, I haven't paid any attention to it. I suppose I should.

[GentryDixon]

2. Call Blue Stakes and have them

mark it out for you.

A gas line was tapped by a backhoe outside my Mom's home one time. It sounded like a bomb and the flames were shooting into the air like Old Faithful. Luckily it was in the middle of the street, so nobody was injured.

Scary stuff.

[KamaAina]

16. In No. CA it's called Underground Service Alert North (USA North)

http://www.usanorth.org/USANHow2Call.html

[DesertFlower]

4. i'm in arizona. the last house we lived

in was less than 2 blocks from a high pressure gas line.

there's no gas where we live now, but some people are using propane tanks.

i love living in an all electric house.

[RKP5637]

5. It seems I heard someplace they had been complaining of gas smells in

the neighborhood for about 2 weeks. Even smelled gas coming from sewers, something like that. PG&E had said no problem found.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. You know this is reminding me of.... Mexico

we are already a third world country.

[RKP5637]

8. Yep, it is, isn't it... at first it was small things here and there... could somewhat

chalk it up to individual incompetence, sometimes. Now it's getting really prevalent, and as the infrastructure really starts to fall apart, it will be apparent to even the most casual observer. They will be forced to participate in a third world county.

The combination of greed and an increasingly dysfunctional society is going to make this an even more rocky place to live IMO. And some of these politicians are clearly short of a full deck, anymore.

[AsahinaKimi]

7. PG&E is my gas company..

Not really worried. Seems like we always seen the crews out some where, and I would hope they are keeping up the infrastructure here.

[Gin]

are these above ground? since it was a high pressure one..

I wondered

[AsahinaKimi]

11. probably not...

[EFerrari]

12. PG&E or AT&T trucks in the neighborhood were always our signal

that something was about to get worse. lol

[jgraz]

9. Yes, I have a PG&E right-of-way at the far edge of my lot.

:scared:

[slackmaster]

10. SDG&E has an easement on my property

I believe it's for a gas line. I'm not worried about it.

[onethatcares]

13. farking smart meters.

I don't have one for gas but my electric meter is one of them. I used to be able to see my consumption (not TB) by watching the dial speed around.

Not any longer, just a bunch of lcd numbers.

btw, I'd like to know where our steel gas pipes are too. Here in Floriduh the soil is very unkind to metallic objects especially when mixed with fertilizer, rain, and the rest of the pollution available.

[lunatica]

14. I'm wondering if that explosion and fire were a result of shoddy work (like BP)

I've been thinking that all day. How could PG&E gave put that neighborhood or any neighborhood in such peril. I can't help thinking they cut a few safety corners to maximize their profits.

I'm getting so jaded.

[NV Whino]

17. Probably not shoddy work

Probably just old pipes.

[pink-o]

18. Old pipes built under the San Andreas fault line.

This is right up there with the bridge in Minnesota and of course the levies in New Orleans. We have antiquated 20th century infrastructure trying to serve people in the 21st. We can find money for illegal wars and Halliburton, but not to rebuild the essentials we need in our communities.

And isn't this proof that private corporations run things sooooooo much better than the government!!!! :sarcasm:

I'm so sad about this: I went to school in San Bruno and I used to live in that neighborhood. I don't know the names of the injured or dead, but I have a bad feeling when I hear them I will have a connection to them. My one friend was evacuated with her 6 month old daughter and she's just waiting to go back to see the state of her home. I hate the soulless corporations that are only beholden to their shareholders, letting the rest of us rot!!!

[still_one]

15. no. Incidently, underneath all cities are a network of gas lines that under the

wrong conditions, including earthquakes could cause a mess

[AsahinaKimi]

19. Gas lines

Already caused a mess, during the 1989 earthquake..

look familiar?

[1955doubledie]

20. There was an earthquake last night?

:shrug:

[NV Whino]

21. I suspect many previous tremors

weakened the the line.

[lonestarnot]

22. Crumble crumble crumble.