There needs to have bollards installed around the sensitive and vulnerable electical, and natural gas equipment rather than a chain length fence to stop a vehicle.
If you looked at the video you would notice that the valve is about 70 feet off of the highway, and the distance was more than sufficient to protect it from a foreseeable accident. This is just an unforeseeable fluke incident
@@melberry7611 it's funny the gas station has to have bollards but a huge pipeline doesn't? I wouldn't be surprised if a vehicle didn't cause that explosion.
Walmart: code says we have to put crash barriers around 10 propane tanks for sale. Gas company: code don't say nuthin' about million cubic feet per minute gas lines.
I think a good chunk of every person that saw this though the same thing. If this can be done as an accident with nothing more than a car, then clearly a group of criminal could purposefully do this at a few hundred of places all at once if there is no bollards to protect it. Seriously feel like the government should require all gas lines owned by the provider that can be reached by cars have bollards.
@@DustinHawkeactually it's all on the Harris County DEMOCRAT government since they are the ones who set the regulations for businesses in Harris County.
When atm first came out it didn’t have barriers those came after so many thefts happened. One close to my friends house bank completely removed the atm because of vandalism
Why is it still being fed? Shut down the compressors. PG&E learned about this with the 2010 San Bruno explosion. They have plenty of isolation/diverter valves now.
It’s always something simple like that here in Texas. I’m guessing a lack of governmental or industry oversight allows power plant and pipeline owners to evade protective measures that prevent these sorts of incidents from happening. I’m a Houston resident now but I lived in Dallas during the blizzard of 2021 where hundreds of thousands of homes were without power for several weeks after the storm. After it was all over, it was determined that they failed to “weatherize” or weatherproof their equipment, a simple and relatively inexpensive process that would’ve avoided power loss to millions during one of the coldest nights of that year. Similar issue here in that, a simple concrete barrier, not a chain linked fence, surrounding the exposed area of the valve would’ve prevented this explosion and from what the local news is reporting, saved the life of whomever the driver of the vehicle that hit the pipeline was. There’s big money in Texas but apparently energy corporations prefer not to invest it in protecting pipeline and local infrastructure. Sad sad state of affairs, no pun intended.
@@soakupthesunman Speaking of NY, no one foresaw 2 ✈️ being flown into skyscrapers at hundreds of miles per hour 2 decades ago, yet here we are today a little over 23 years later still talking about it. Intelligent engineering factors in all potential outcomes and leaves nothing to chance
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Just a chain link fence and a unfortunate accident ( also unfortunate for the person and family) caused all this damage and $$$$ when a crash proof barrier could have been built ( not a big area- hell that burned park is much bigger and I'm sure cost alot more than a sturdy barrier)
It had the normal chain link fence that every other well head, valve, or other piece of gas infrastructure has in texas. Barriers restrict access to getting work done and texas is literally peppered with this infrastructure. They'll even take your land to install pipelines like this one. They do it every day.
A little old lady. That is soo sad. She was probably having a medical issue. With the way the car sped up she lost conscience and her foot got heavier on the gas pedal then. 😢
Take a big numbers of old people, out the cars and into public transport. Few month ago, we had an old lady in her 80's, getting confused over the pedals and slams into the store.
@@Mehrunes86 Average age of people who the most traffic accidents resulting in death and injury are between the ages of 25 and 34. Maybe people at or between those ages shouldn't be allowed to drive.
@@bitcoindaddy1 This is _mainstream media_ that you're watching and commenting on. (Not FOX goofball news) What would matter if it was an EV ? Am so tired of politicizing everything !
How about saying something constructively true instead of mindlessly false? Here are facts. "It takes 17 hours to reduce the pipe pressure to atmospheric pressure with venting at one end of the pipe."
And they are also making it seem like it was a accident. Seems intentional to me. What are the odds that someone has a heart attack and they drive right into that pipeline from the parking lot
*Perfect example of greed….anyone that thought a chain link fence was good protection for a major oil line is definitely cutting costs to put money in their pocket*
Yes companies should charge us more for making us safer and government should raise taxes to oversee regulations on everything. We should be forced to build some sort of protection dome in case a plane crashes on buildings that’s what I fear
This is on the ultra left government officials in Harris County since they set the safety regulations for their county. Blame the ultra lefties in Houston for this one.
Facts seem to suggest that the driver is still in the SUV, and expired. Especially if elderly; reaction and recovery time would be poor. Even a recovery isn't possible yet with intense heat. Anything not steel within that vehicle, has been burnt and is gone. Bones too.
It could also have been a medical condition that caused her to tense up pushing the accelerator down. Or after clearing the brush the vehicle now had no more drag on it so it naturally sped up.
Major fines for pipeline corporation for not installing protection around the pipeline. Greedy Incompetent Oil and Gas Industry with their corrupt bribed politicians.
Just Greg Abbott and the GOP fighting to keep needless “regulations” off business. Nothing to see here, it’ll go back to chain link after all is said and done.🤷🏼♂️
Well, sure would be easy to do this again if someone wanted to...perhaps, just perhaps the chainlink fence isn't the safest barrier. Maybe if they put a sign up, that would surely keep out wayward vehicles.
If the person behind the wheel was in distress and unable to stop before hitting the terminal, barriers would have not only saved the pipeline but possibly her life.
Here are facts for those accusing the company who runs the pipeline of fowl play by not shutting it off. "It takes 17 hours to reduce the pipe pressure to atmospheric pressure with venting at one end of the pipe."
A major gas valve above ground and nobody never thought about putting a shutoff valve in a different location as a safety precaution for something like this could happen! Unbelievable.
These pipelines with no nearby shut off valves, thats a huge problem, thats what should be next, make all these companies install them at least every 5 miles, 20 miles is just unacceptable, they make billions and cant control a fire
@@SonsoftheRevolution1776Can the car electronic systems be hijacked basically cars are mobile computer controlled and monitored mobile units😮 Scary thought😢
This event has received so much attention on social media. I wouldn't be surprised that this type of 'accident' starts occurring around the country now.
Investigate the vehicle, Cars these days can be controlled by people in other countries.. also it's strange how the car would end up in that exact spot!😮🤔
It would take a phone book-long answer. Just FYI, God never said He will protect us from everything happening around us. And all of us humans learn from mistakes: ours and others. That's how we grow, mature, gain wisdom. And some of us actually use that wisdom. I'm not perfect, but a work in progress! Maybe you should be considering whether your elderly parent/s should still be driving. We just had to put my folks in an assisted-care facility. We, as a family, made that decision for the safety and wellbeing of our parents, but also the people that lived around them. Taking a ride to the grocery store with my 87 y.o. Mom driving started that discussion - scared the crap outta me! Stop fearing God. He loves us all, and He DOES want to best for us. But He gives us free will, to think on our own. Something you have chosen for yourself. We are free to make our own mistakes, and I've made my share. You and I: our only difference is I've asked (and received) God's forgiveness - something you can do any time you want. I hope you find the peace you're looking for. It's closer than you think.
Early airborne video showed a body in the vehicle. If the wooden utility poles 300 yards away are smoldering, there is NO chance there is a live human on that vehicle. And note that even the fire engines are 'covered' behind structures - yes, the flames are that intense. Also, have to wonder about zoning that allows wood siding and roofing in an area like this. Speaking from Kali, we have thousands of wood-sided structures in the middle of forest and wildland areas... just plain stupid. Just too many zoning laws are made with the "nah, that'll never happen here" mentality. RIP ma'am.
In addition to the possibility of a heart attack, a stroke, or some other incapacitation, whomever was driving the vehicle may have gotten the drive and reverse gears mixed up; if not, the car may have malfunctioned as in the case of a stuck accelerator. (The latter, by the way, happened to me once on a two-lane desert highway, in a fairly new pickup; it was a hairy ride past the shoulder, onto and into a barbed wire and mesquite fence before it bogged down in the caliche, stopping it.) My condolences are to the family of this person, and my empathy is for those who have lost property in this devastating situation.
No way to cut it off, no crash protection around vulnerable hardware, great design. Texas, guess how well managed the rest of your state's isolated from everybody else's energy grids are.
I know it sounds bad but there needs to be a way to stop old people from driving if they are not fully capable. My grandma drove up till she died at 84. Had cataracts last 20 years of life, but she just HAD to get to the casino every night. Glad she never killed anyone.
Why have they not shut off the pipeline upstream and downstream to remove and repair the damaged segment? Or better yet, why are there not automatic shut offs that can be triggered in the event of something like this that closes the damaged area off so the fire is out quickly and loss is minimal.
Well did the driver get out and run away, or did the driver eventually get cooked in their car after the explosion? No one is saying anything about what happen with the driver after the impact with the pipeline valve. Did 1st responders have to pull the driver out, if they were even able to get close enough?
@@briansmyla8696 By now well yes of course it would be. I meant as soon as it had happened. Wonder if any of those businesses across the street there would have any video cameras at that angle that would have picked that up.
So, what's keeping that ignited gas line from rupturing? I couldn't imagine how dangerouse it would be for the entire line underground to ignite and explode. That gas is coming from somewhere and I'm surprised it hasn't ignited, hopefully the pressure doesn't drop and allow it to back ignite.
Concrete is cheap, easy to work with making it into any shape you desire, and when reinforced with rebar, tough stuff to penetrate. Even those temporary highway cement guard rails used by the road work crews, will deflect anything on the road. Keep your fencing, yes, just add some concrete barriers.
Are we to assume the car ended up stopped on top of the broken valve! And was then hurled to its current location in the next second, or seconds, as the rapidly accumulating gas exploded?
We have concrete barriers to protect all Valves and exposed piping up here in the Alberta patch. I do not understand why they figured a fence would be all that is required here? Maybe law is different down there?
This fire burned for three days. The barrier around the pipe station isn't the problem for me and hardening it won't make people safer in my opinion. This was a freak incident. The communities need an emergency plan because some sub sub sub contractor on a backhoe is the real threat. Local responders taking 4 hours to figure out what was burning in a dense residential neighborhood is unacceptable. Having no emergency cutoffs on a 20" LNG pipeline (@1400 psi!) through dense neighborhoods is unacceptable. Thank goodness it was not a windy day and that pipe wasn't full of something extremely toxic. My biggest fear during the event was the casings of the other 14 pipelines getting so heat soaked they also exploded burning up the whole area. Deer Park should be a wake up call for the Texas Railroad Commission. Pasadena, Deer Park, La Porte, even Seabrook now should be trained on how to evacuate people and shut these pipe lines down before they heat up the entire area causing additional damage.
Is not the best way to get rid of "associated gas", since the gas is at the negative price? Otherwise, the gas companies have to pay customs to use their gas.
There needs to have bollards installed around the sensitive and vulnerable electical, and natural gas equipment rather than a chain length fence to stop a vehicle.
If you looked at the video you would notice that the valve is about 70 feet off of the highway, and the distance was more than sufficient to protect it from a foreseeable accident. This is just an unforeseeable fluke incident
I don’t like your socialist communist Marxist idea… this is America
@@Tanks_In_Space Concrete is cheaper by far wtf are you smoking?
@@frankmoreau8847It's not a sufficient distance if this is possible. A barrier is definitely necessary for any ground set up like this.
@@melberry7611 it's funny the gas station has to have bollards but a huge pipeline doesn't? I wouldn't be surprised if a vehicle didn't cause that explosion.
Walmart: code says we have to put crash barriers around 10 propane tanks for sale.
Gas company: code don't say nuthin' about million cubic feet per minute gas lines.
Houston, we have a problem.
lol
Are you fu$king kidding me?? Why isn't there barriers to protecting this?
Not every day someone drives into one.
I think a good chunk of every person that saw this though the same thing.
If this can be done as an accident with nothing more than a car, then clearly a group of criminal could purposefully do this at a few hundred of places all at once if there is no bollards to protect it.
Seriously feel like the government should require all gas lines owned by the provider that can be reached by cars have bollards.
Wow, whoever designed that should be fired. A chain-link barrier to protect a major gas line. What an idiot.
A Texan who doesn't want any pesky regulations making him spend money on safety measures.
Harris County is a democrat dump, poor safety regulations is all on Harris County Govt
@@DustinHawkeactually it's all on the Harris County DEMOCRAT government since they are the ones who set the regulations for businesses in Harris County.
@@DustinHawke Ah go chase your mom, fruit
The U.S. are a 3rd world country, camouflaging as a 1st world country.
This might be a good time to build barriers around other valves.
Worldwide, even
Is a fence not a barrier? 🙄
@@Dhern0115 No
It sure does seem like it. Build barriers around bridge piers too.
The real question is: what is the reason that it was not already done.
The ATM machine in my hood has a cement barrier, and it's inside the store.
💯
that ATM had money inside of it, and isnt going to explode and kill you when you impact it.
@@melvinwren but the owner will explode.
When atm first came out it didn’t have barriers those came after so many thefts happened. One close to my friends house bank completely removed the atm because of vandalism
Rrats is the couse buddie domt be mad
Why is it still being fed? Shut down the compressors. PG&E learned about this with the 2010 San Bruno explosion. They have plenty of isolation/diverter valves now.
It’s always something simple like that here in Texas. I’m guessing a lack of governmental or industry oversight allows power plant and pipeline owners to evade protective measures that prevent these sorts of incidents from happening. I’m a Houston resident now but I lived in Dallas during the blizzard of 2021 where hundreds of thousands of homes were without power for several weeks after the storm.
After it was all over, it was determined that they failed to “weatherize” or weatherproof their equipment, a simple and relatively inexpensive process that would’ve avoided power loss to millions during one of the coldest nights of that year.
Similar issue here in that, a simple concrete barrier, not a chain linked fence, surrounding the exposed area of the valve would’ve prevented this explosion and from what the local news is reporting, saved the life of whomever the driver of the vehicle that hit the pipeline was.
There’s big money in Texas but apparently energy corporations prefer not to invest it in protecting pipeline and local infrastructure. Sad sad state of affairs, no pun intended.
@@FuriousStylez93this is all on John Whitmire's office and the ultra left wing clowns in Hatris County.
@@FuriousStylez93 Yeah, because they should have foreseen somebody driving through a fence and a field at full throttle, like they do in New York.
@@soakupthesunman Speaking of NY, no one foresaw 2 ✈️ being flown into skyscrapers at hundreds of miles per hour 2 decades ago, yet here we are today a little over 23 years later still talking about it. Intelligent engineering factors in all potential outcomes and leaves nothing to chance
The pipelines are massive; even if you close off both ends, they will continue to burn for several more hours.
Why weren't bollards installed around the gas fixture? This is a huge oversight that could have been prevented.
Like the Francis Scott Key bridge in Maryland?
There's no regulation on gas companies in texas when it comes to public safety LOL
Even a giant piece of rock could at least deter a crash.
How about a 100 ft tall wall.
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I looked up the reporter, and she is 5' 6". I thought she might be really tall.
So, if she was in heals the dude is like 5 foot.
This is so heartbreaking 😢Unbelievable something like this could happen please Investigate!!!!
Holy shit Houston looks like it's in complete chaos all over the news channels today
Order Ab Chao
It's in a town called La Porte.
Houston Is a mess every day.
Lmao @@bride4jesus0126
Houston is complete chaos everyday.
10-4 it's a sh.. hole here
No barriers around all that. Wtf!
Just a chain link fence and a unfortunate accident ( also unfortunate for the person and family) caused all this damage and $$$$ when a crash proof barrier could have been built ( not a big area- hell that burned park is much bigger and I'm sure cost alot more than a sturdy barrier)
Welcome to the USA.
It had the normal chain link fence that every other well head, valve, or other piece of gas infrastructure has in texas. Barriers restrict access to getting work done and texas is literally peppered with this infrastructure. They'll even take your land to install pipelines like this one. They do it every day.
A little old lady. That is soo sad. She was probably having a medical issue. With the way the car sped up she lost conscience and her foot got heavier on the gas pedal then. 😢
Not how it happens loss of consciousness usually causes the foot and leg to relax.
💔💔💔
@SonsoftheRevolution1776 she may have been having a seizure. We will never know. It's so sad. ❤
Take a big numbers of old people, out the cars and into public transport. Few month ago, we had an old lady in her 80's, getting confused over the pedals and slams into the store.
@@Mehrunes86 Average age of people who the most traffic accidents resulting in death and injury are between the ages of 25 and 34. Maybe people at or between those ages shouldn't be allowed to drive.
Wonder if the company will put up better barriers around the pipes?? Duh!
Did you see how fast the SUV was traveling when it hit the fence & shutoff valve?
They are called barriers, they are quite useful.
at least mainstream media didn't blame an EV.
@@bitcoindaddy1 This is _mainstream media_ that you're watching and commenting on. (Not FOX goofball news) What would matter if it was an EV ? Am so tired of politicizing everything !
Yes that’s what I’m trying to get at..there’s this war on EV and tech has turned into political topics.
I own bitcoin , I owned and have multiple tesla and I managed cloud AI data center.
All mainstream media is garbage include left and right
@@Austin8thGenTexan If it was CNN, they'd find a way to blame it on OrangeMan.
What an absolute mess.
Automatic shut off valves upon sudden pressure drop? Hello?
too much money
To dangerous under ground explosion would happen if you got automatic valves
"If it's not required, we're not doing it" - 99% of companies in the USA.
@@Crismodin Actually, it is more than that. The companies lobby（=bribe?) to keep minimal requirement.
How about saying something constructively true instead of mindlessly false? Here are facts. "It takes 17 hours to reduce the pipe pressure to atmospheric pressure with venting at one end of the pipe."
why is a dangerous pipeline like that surrounded with a fence not suitable to keep a dog inside
What a few steel posts concreted in around it cost, less than that.
They never mention what happened to the driver. I guess they are still in the vehicle?
Probably. Meat falling off the bone by now.
I doubt this was a survivable accident.
😢😢😢
And they are also making it seem like it was a accident. Seems intentional to me. What are the odds that someone has a heart attack and they drive right into that pipeline from the parking lot
@@briansmyla8696
Gallows humor to be sure...
*Perfect example of greed….anyone that thought a chain link fence was good protection for a major oil line is definitely cutting costs to put money in their pocket*
Sounds like Russia.
Yes companies should charge us more for making us safer and government should raise taxes to oversee regulations on everything. We should be forced to build some sort of protection dome in case a plane crashes on buildings that’s what I fear
@@edwardthompson9981 Russia, Russia, Russia!
Nice safety barriers Texass
This is on the ultra left government officials in Harris County since they set the safety regulations for their county. Blame the ultra lefties in Houston for this one.
Facts seem to suggest that the driver is still in the SUV, and expired.
Especially if elderly; reaction and recovery time would be poor.
Even a recovery isn't possible yet with intense heat.
Anything not steel within that vehicle, has been burnt and is gone.
Bones too.
" car sped up towards the fence..." Sounds like it could be a deliberate act.
Shhhhh dont speak facts the sheep dont want to hear it could possibly be terrorism.
Putin
It could also have been a medical condition that caused her to tense up pushing the accelerator down. Or after clearing the brush the vehicle now had no more drag on it so it naturally sped up.
@@SonsoftheRevolution1776 take your tinfoil hat and go back in your mom's basement.
How do you not have a protected barrier around that?
Major fines for pipeline corporation for not installing protection around the pipeline. Greedy Incompetent Oil and Gas Industry with their corrupt bribed politicians.
What’s a ouild?
They had a fence around it
Just Greg Abbott and the GOP fighting to keep needless “regulations” off business. Nothing to see here, it’ll go back to chain link after all is said and done.🤷🏼♂️
@@chaos0852 I could be wrong, but I think that's another term for peanut butter.
@@rrf6747 Need K rails or bollards. A chain link fence????
Well, sure would be easy to do this again if someone wanted to...perhaps, just perhaps the chainlink fence isn't the safest barrier. Maybe if they put a sign up, that would surely keep out wayward vehicles.
If the person behind the wheel was in distress and unable to stop before hitting the terminal, barriers would have not only saved the pipeline but possibly her life.
Just put up a sign that says “Don’t!”😂
A "Car Free Zone" sign should prevent this from ever happening again.
@@HomesickforAlaska Ha Ha.
@@HomesickforAlaskahaha!
Here are facts for those accusing the company who runs the pipeline of fowl play by not shutting it off.
"It takes 17 hours to reduce the pipe pressure to atmospheric pressure with venting at one end of the pipe."
This is a liquid product in this particular pipeline. I believe your quote is referring to a gaseous product. There is a difference.
@@briansmyla8696
I haven’t seen any reports that have identified what type of pipeline it is.
@@sunshine3914 NG
seems like a good practice to have some barriers in front and sides of things that can go boom
A major gas valve above ground and nobody never thought about putting a shutoff valve in a different location as a safety precaution for something like this could happen! Unbelievable.
Either that guy is real short or the reporter is real tall.
lol I noticed that too.
@tazmod7272 i know him hes only 37" tall
Just look her up, she is 5 feet 6 inches tall
@@georgeeharrison4293 He certainly looked her up.
Or both
Not very secure, or hardened, that a car traveling at low speeds is able to collide with a major gas pipeline. 🤨
Seems to be a case of confusing brake with gas pedal.
This is the third news story I’ve seen this year of a senior citizen driving into something….this is the only one that didn’t have mass fatalities.
It will later. They are all breathing all that air in.
Criminal investigation opened this was intentional.
elderly and teen drivers are similar in that they have highest rate of confusing gas and brake pedals.
And Asians...
They are having that same problem in Springfield, Ohio, concerning dyslexic pedal operation.
where u get these stats? or we just making shit up?
@@Urbicide You mean Haitians
And females
Now that's how you make a point...
So sad for all involved
I have full confidence that big oil will fully use this as an excuse to raise gas prices.
guess they need more valves to shut of the supply of gas to that valve... REDUNDANCY
FAIL on the GAS Company.
Now we will hear about the green effort which Kamala is support. What a coincidence
These pipelines with no nearby shut off valves, thats a huge problem, thats what should be next, make all these companies install them at least every 5 miles, 20 miles is just unacceptable, they make billions and cant control a fire
Driver may have had a medical emergency.. Poor woman.
Nope it was intentional
@@SonsoftheRevolution1776Can the car electronic systems be hijacked basically cars are mobile computer controlled and monitored mobile units😮
Scary thought😢
Wtf won’t they just SHUT OFF THE GAS flow?! Simple.
There are MULTIPLE VALVES
They did shut the valves, residual pressure is burning off
OMG I cant believe someone didn't think of that.
Laid off the guy that knew where they are
@@flutetubamorg For 36 hours? It's still being fed.......
This event has received so much attention on social media. I wouldn't be surprised that this type of 'accident' starts occurring around the country now.
Oh dear, the cat is out of the bag.
Russian sleeper cell suv
@@quicksandsavior "They're eating the dogs!They're eating the cats!"😮
It's a Democratic conspiracy! 😯
Cat had kittens? DEMOCRATS!
The left hate their country to lazy to work to scared to steal.
"Nothing to see here folks" moment
Heart attack
Terrorism, suicide, medical emergency. Whatever happened looked really painful. RIP
Excuses..
Investigate the vehicle, Cars these days can be controlled by people in other countries.. also it's strange how the car would end up in that exact spot!😮🤔
“Our prayers go out”. Why? Couldn’t your God have prevented it?
It would take a phone book-long answer. Just FYI, God never said He will protect us from everything happening around us. And all of us humans learn from mistakes: ours and others. That's how we grow, mature, gain wisdom. And some of us actually use that wisdom. I'm not perfect, but a work in progress!
Maybe you should be considering whether your elderly parent/s should still be driving. We just had to put my folks in an assisted-care facility. We, as a family, made that decision for the safety and wellbeing of our parents, but also the people that lived around them. Taking a ride to the grocery store with my 87 y.o. Mom driving started that discussion - scared the crap outta me!
Stop fearing God. He loves us all, and He DOES want to best for us. But He gives us free will, to think on our own. Something you have chosen for yourself. We are free to make our own mistakes, and I've made my share. You and I: our only difference is I've asked (and received) God's forgiveness - something you can do any time you want.
I hope you find the peace you're looking for. It's closer than you think.
Turn it the F off
' the woods are lovely, dark and deep'...
Sleepers are awake USA.
😊
Scramble John Wayne and the Hell Fighters.
It’s completely weird officials aren’t saying anything about the driver, nor their condition. I would assume dead, but maybe not.
Early airborne video showed a body in the vehicle. If the wooden utility poles 300 yards away are smoldering, there is NO chance there is a live human on that vehicle. And note that even the fire engines are 'covered' behind structures - yes, the flames are that intense.
Also, have to wonder about zoning that allows wood siding and roofing in an area like this. Speaking from Kali, we have thousands of wood-sided structures in the middle of forest and wildland areas... just plain stupid. Just too many zoning laws are made with the "nah, that'll never happen here" mentality.
RIP ma'am.
Could be a terrorist attack.
Rest in peace to the driver.
Well ....I woke up to get me a cold pop...
How long was this burning? Surely they can turn off the supply.
No shut off valves anywhere? How many hours did it burn?
Medical issues, praying for them 🙏
We told our gov to put driver's ed back into our schools, not immigrants.
Did they survive the crash,explosion,firestorm and extreme heat?
What type of vehicle was that and it did it have autonomous driving capability? Give us the specifics please
Yeah, because we trust the FBI and everything they say.
Just a bad driver. Nothing to see.
I'm wondering if that poor elderly lady survived. Most likely she had some sort of medical issue that caused her to drive recklessly.
Pipes need shut off controls every 5 miles. GATE type valves restrict flow Little ❤
Wow....now that's a flippin' flame.
Who's got the hotdogs? Sorry, poor taste (comment AND hotdogs....).
Suspicious
BS. This was an act of terrorism
Another, "isolated incident."
I'm guessing that there are no rails or concrete pillars around these exposed parts of the pipeline ? 🤔
Absolutely negligence !!!!
Saying it’s not a terrorist act?!?! Well who’s to say they weren’t some activists? Like the stop oil campaigns?!? Never thought of that?!!
In addition to the possibility of a heart attack, a stroke, or some other incapacitation, whomever was driving the vehicle may have gotten the drive and reverse gears mixed up; if not, the car may have malfunctioned as in the case of a stuck accelerator. (The latter, by the way, happened to me once on a two-lane desert highway, in a fairly new pickup; it was a hairy ride past the shoulder, onto and into a barbed wire and mesquite fence before it bogged down in the caliche, stopping it.) My condolences are to the family of this person, and my empathy is for those who have lost property in this devastating situation.
Thanks for showing the insurgents in our country our weak points. That chit was way to accessible.
How tall is this reporter??
Wonder why they are releasing the name of the person that drove into the pipeline?
No way to cut it off, no crash protection around vulnerable hardware, great design. Texas, guess how well managed the rest of your state's isolated from everybody else's energy grids are.
Was it sabotage?
Looks like a terrorist attack to me
Was it radio controlled?
Good grief, how tall is Alex?
Looked like she was interviewing Cotton from King of the Hill.
Sounds like there's a little bit more to it than what they're saying
I know it sounds bad but there needs to be a way to stop old people from driving if they are not fully capable. My grandma drove up till she died at 84. Had cataracts last 20 years of life, but she just HAD to get to the casino every night. Glad she never killed anyone.
Was it intentional?
Why have they not shut off the pipeline upstream and downstream to remove and repair the damaged segment?
Or better yet, why are there not automatic shut offs that can be triggered in the event of something like this that closes the damaged area off so the fire is out quickly and loss is minimal.
Well did the driver get out and run away, or did the driver eventually get cooked in their car after the explosion? No one is saying anything about what happen with the driver after the impact with the pipeline valve. Did 1st responders have to pull the driver out, if they were even able to get close enough?
lol no way anyone could get close enough. Meat is fall off the bone cooked by now.
@@briansmyla8696 By now well yes of course it would be. I meant as soon as it had happened. Wonder if any of those businesses across the street there would have any video cameras at that angle that would have picked that up.
That doesn't sound like an accident.
So, what's keeping that ignited gas line from rupturing? I couldn't imagine how dangerouse it would be for the entire line underground to ignite and explode. That gas is coming from somewhere and I'm surprised it hasn't ignited, hopefully the pressure doesn't drop and allow it to back ignite.
Does anyone think Alex could get a prayer out, without multiple word fumbles?!?! 😂 😂
Concrete is cheap, easy to work with making it into any shape you desire, and when reinforced with rebar, tough stuff to penetrate. Even those temporary highway cement guard rails used by the road work crews, will deflect anything on the road. Keep your fencing, yes, just add some concrete barriers.
Are we to assume the car ended up stopped on top of the broken valve! And was then hurled to its current location in the next second, or seconds, as the rapidly accumulating gas exploded?
Huh? The car ran into it, explosion, car went up into air, came back down, that's it.
Nothing more to it. Not hard to figure out.
Pipeline expert who was interviewed said it's a liquid product in the line based on the way it is burning. I'm not convinced, but time will tell.
APPEARED to be elderly.
We have concrete barriers to protect all Valves and exposed piping up here in the Alberta patch. I do not understand why they figured a fence would be all that is required here? Maybe law is different down there?
How can they operate a pipeline with that kind of pressure thru a neighborhood. Why can't they shut it down?
We’re used to it.
Walmart surely has footage...
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This fire burned for three days. The barrier around the pipe station isn't the problem for me and hardening it won't make people safer in my opinion. This was a freak incident. The communities need an emergency plan because some sub sub sub contractor on a backhoe is the real threat. Local responders taking 4 hours to figure out what was burning in a dense residential neighborhood is unacceptable. Having no emergency cutoffs on a 20" LNG pipeline (@1400 psi!) through dense neighborhoods is unacceptable. Thank goodness it was not a windy day and that pipe wasn't full of something extremely toxic. My biggest fear during the event was the casings of the other 14 pipelines getting so heat soaked they also exploded burning up the whole area. Deer Park should be a wake up call for the Texas Railroad Commission. Pasadena, Deer Park, La Porte, even Seabrook now should be trained on how to evacuate people and shut these pipe lines down before they heat up the entire area causing additional damage.
I'm still wondering if it wasn't a medical emergency 🤔
How old was the elderly person
It's crazy that such a sensitive piece of infrastructure didn't have a better barrier built around it.
Is not the best way to get rid of "associated gas", since the gas is at the negative price? Otherwise, the gas companies have to pay customs to use their gas.