Sensible Erection | 'Huge' explosion reported at Conn. power plant

Sunday, 7 February 2010

'Huge' explosion reported at Conn. power plant - Videos in extended

quote [ A gas explosion and fire erupted at a Connecticut power plant, resulting in what police described as "mass casualties," CBS Affiliate WFSB reports. ]

VIDEOS
http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/middlesex_cty/middletown-power-plant-explosion

[by JOECAM@5:18pmGMT] [+10 Informative]

Comments

afrasr said @ 5:53pm GMT on 7th Feb
At least its not a nuclear plant..

CapnSilver said @ 9:05pm GMT on 7th Feb

maryyugo said @ 6:56pm GMT on 7th Feb
The max number of people on site is 50 according to a reliable report-- because it was Sunday. And there will be survivors. Hopefully lots. So max dead is 50. That's about the number killed in a single office building during the Haiti earthquake. I am not trying to minimize this event but "mass casualties" is sort of a silly way to describe it.

sanepride said @ 7:07pm GMT on 7th Feb
A lot of people live nearby apparently. They're reporting as many as 250 injured. If so, that would qualify as 'mass casualties'.

mwoody said @ 7:43pm GMT on 7th Feb [Score:1 Informative]
Keep in mind that "casualty" is a military term meaning "persons lost to military service." It covers both dead and injured. "Mass" is a reasonable descriptor for 50-250 people in a 1st-world nation.

dietcoke said @ 12:02am GMT on 8th Feb [Score:-4 WTF]

Is it not worse to lose 50 working people then it is to lose 50 that have no jobs and are not even seeking jobs?
Just saying. Will Haiti help any other country that has need? Or will it just keep sucking at the teat and using excuses? Chances are alot of these workers that died or were hurt did donate to Haiti, will their family in turn receive aid for the familys of the dead?

Barnabas_Truman said @ 1:11am GMT on 8th Feb
Is Haiti even capable of helping any other country at this time, other than serving as an example?

Krutz said @ 2:02am GMT on 8th Feb
Next up, dietcoke's master plan to make anyone who has ever gotten a meal from a soup kitchen required by law to work on a collective farm so that the meals they were given can be repaid in full.

Barnabas_Truman said @ 2:14am GMT on 8th Feb
We should all pay 18 years of rent to our parents, too, just in case.

sanepride said @ 3:15am GMT on 8th Feb [Score:1 Funny]
'Excuses'? Like a devastating earthquake? Yeah, kudos to the scheming Haitians for thinking that one up.

JOECAM said @ 7:04pm GMT on 7th Feb

Beta_Rob said @ 7:05pm GMT on 7th Feb
Story updated. Two dead, while unfortunate it's far from mass.

zsander said @ 7:39pm GMT on 7th Feb [Score:2 Funny]
MA and CT are pretty close actually.

mwoody said @ 7:44pm GMT on 7th Feb
Casualty = dead and injured. 250 is mass.

Jesus H. Christ said @ 7:55pm GMT on 7th Feb [Score:1 Insightful]
I think you'll find 13 is a Mass...

f00m@nB@r said @ 9:53pm GMT on 7th Feb
I believe that's a seder.

Barnabas_Truman said @ 10:04pm GMT on 7th Feb
Seder? I barely know 'er!

benjamander said @ 12:27am GMT on 8th Feb
I was going to extend this joke, but I think this is one to just passover.

Krutz said @ 7:11pm GMT on 7th Feb
More info here, the best news being that it wasn't actively supplying power to anyone, given the cold weather and everything.

maryyugo said @ 8:57pm GMT on 7th Feb
"Police retract statement that 2 died in Connecticut explosion"

Long article here.

CapnSilver said @ 9:07pm GMT on 7th Feb
I think the best news is that no one died

JOECAM said @ 10:19pm GMT on 7th Feb
At least 5 dead, 12 hurt in Connecticut plant blast.

Barnabas_Truman said @ 10:58pm GMT on 7th Feb [Score:2 Underrated]
Don't trust any sensational news item until the day after the event in question, and never buy any brand-new technology the year it's first released.

JOECAM said @ 9:10pm GMT on 7th Feb [Score:3]

Isosceles Lock™ said @ 3:10am GMT on 8th Feb
God's own turgid johnson.

Barnabas_Truman said @ 4:25am GMT on 8th Feb
That picture takes on such a different meaning after reading your comment. I don't think I'll ever be able to look at lightning the same way again.

Isosceles Lock™ said @ 5:29am GMT on 8th Feb
Don't worry, that means you are reading SE correctly.

Naruki said @ 5:41am GMT on 8th Feb [Score:2 Underrated]
Is that Pat Robertson's house?

pleaides said @ 6:17am GMT on 8th Feb
Ahh, yet another awesome desktop background.

If for no other reason, you are a wellspring of awesome for this alone :)

Cheers.

maryyugo said @ 9:44pm GMT on 7th Feb
Godt was upset with them or maybe "He" just had indigestion.